This tech founder launched an elite VC firm after being told venture capital was ‘a young man’s game’

Forbes' Maggie McGrath and Huma Abedin, an MSNBC contributor and vice-chair of Forbes and Know Your Value’s 30/50 summit, join Mika Brzezinski to introduce the Forbes and Know Your Value '50 over 50' U.S. list on Morning Joe, highlighting women who have achieved significant success later in life.

If you ask Silicon Valley tech veteran Miriam Rivera about the greatest influence on her path to success, the answer might surprise you: “Sesame Street.” Born to Puerto Rican parents in upstate New York, Rivera relied on Headstart and the iconic PBS show to learn English. “I spoke Spanish first,” she told ForbesWomen editor, Maggie McGrath. “Sesame Street was really one of the ways that my parents helped me learn English and get ready for school.

“A lot of the times lawyers have the worst hours of anyone … they say that they’re even worse than doctors these days. And my sense of that is nobody really works as hard as migrant farmworkers — so I knew that I was really blessed to be able to do the kind of work that I have done, both as an attorney and as a venture capitalist.

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