And always maintain a very long-term perspective. You can avoid a lot of failure with super transparent communication. The role young engineers are playing in shaping big companies in Boston is so exciting. I love the university ecosystem in Boston and I love the roles students and schools play in technology. One thing that got me so excited was the long history of entrepreneurship in Boston, especially in hardware and healthcare. I was deliberate about choosing Boston for university because of the amazing summers I had here.ĭid you ever think the Boston tech scene would become what it is today? I did the Harvard summer program and went to school in Boston. No, I grew up in New York but I spent many summers in Boston. I got RDV off the ground after school and I’m continuously inviting more students to be a part of that. Basically, I created a version of venture capital that brought amazing student startups the support and mentorship they need. But really most of my experience has been through Rough Draft Ventures, something I started working on my senior year. So I’ve also seen the VC side from an entrepreneur's perspective. That’s how I got into the team at GC super early on.įrom that campus accelerator experience, I also spent some time working at startups. Through that program, I got to know VCs around Boston as mentors. I created a campus accelerator program for students to launch their own startups called HackHarvard. I helped create a few student organizations around venture capital and startups and entrepreneurship. I first got involved in venture capital through work I was doing while at Harvard. I’ve been with the General Catalyst team for the past four years. We caught up with Boyce to talk physics and tech, and learn more about the unusual path that led to him becoming a VC. Boyce also helps run Rough Draft Ventures, a program in which GC invests in promising student entrepreneurs.
Today, he’s a part of the GC fam and has invested in growing companies like Cadre, Giphy, Indico and Mark43. While attending Harvard as an undergraduate, Boyce co-founded Harvard Ventures and HackHarvard: two student-led organizations that offer support for engineers and future founders. Others, like General Catalyst’s Peter Boyce II, discover their passion a little later in life.īoyce, a math nerd who geeks out over gravitational waves, always thought he’d become a physics professor until he realized how much he loved helping students get their burgeoning businesses off the ground. Some people were born to work in venture capital: They dream in startups and have talked about investing since they were kids.
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