Entrepreneurs Share Insights at Eclectic Convergence 2025
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By Kathy Hovis
“I like to dream, but I don’t like to plan.”
“Founding my college T-shirt company was where I got the itch to continue in business.”
“I keep a document with the mistakes I’ve made with past hires, so I don’t make them again.”
Speakers shared these insights and many more on Oct. 31 at Eclectic Convergence 2025, a conference hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City.
The event also included a pitch contest among businesses with connections to Weill Cornell Medicine or Cornell Tech. Persista Bio, a biotech startup that’s developing a Type 1 diabetes treatment, won the pitch contest and the $5,000 top prize.
“Every year the conference includes different speakers from all over the map,” said Zach Shulman ’87, J.D. ’90, director of Entrepreneurship at Cornell. “We also had, for the first time, two sets of spouses interviewing each other. It was a great day.”
