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Kleiner Perkins’s Leigh Marie Braswell learned about risk from playing poker: “If the odds are in your favor, you push your chips to the center”
Fortune· 2026-02-04 11:54
Leigh Marie Braswell likes a game of risk, particularly if it’s a game of math.Braswell grew up in rural Alabama, and wasn’t introduced to poker until she was an undergrad at MIT. And it wasn’t until she was an intern at Jane Street, the famed quantitative trading firm, that she was hooked on the game.“We didn’t go out and party in New York—we stayed in and played poker,” said Braswell. “So, that’s how I really learned by playing every day against people at Jane Street.”Braswell immediately joined the MIT P ...