Making Ways

Shanna Tellerman hasn’t approached her career with a game plan in mind; instead, she’s been on a journey to pursue the opportunities she is most passionate about, the things she can’t not do, which may account for her love of both the engineering and design aspects of business and product development. On this episode of Making Ways, Shanna recounts her path from art-loving teenager to engineer enthralled with the potential of 3D design and development. After receiving her master’s degree and BFA at Carnegie Mellon, where she studied under the now-famous Last Lecture professor Randy Pausch, Shanna started a company that was eventually acquired by Autodesk after an arduous five years. She then worked as a venture capitalist at Google Ventures (now known as GV) before founding her new startup Modsy, which aims to revolutionize the way we decorate and furnish our homes by offering 3D and augmented reality renders of redesigned spaces. Listen to the conversation with Shanna for great advice for entrepreneurs, star