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In 2018, Steve and Mary Grove left big tech jobs in Silicon Valley and moved to Minnesota with their twin toddlers to start a new chapter. Since then, the married couple has navigated a pandemic, job changes and this fall, the start of first grade.

“We both made a bet on Minnesota,” says Steve Grove, who grew up in Northfield and started as CEO and publisher of the Star Tribune this spring, after serving four years as the state’s commissioner of employment and economic development.  

While Steve was the public face of the state’s effort to keep businesses and workers afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mary Grove has been less visibly building Minnesota’s startup culture. She arrived in Minnesota as a partner in an investment firm founded by AOL billionaire Steve Case with the mission to invest in businesses outside of Silicon Valley, New York and Boston. She now runs her own venture capital firm that skews heavily toward tech startups in Minnesota and companies started by women and people of color.  

Listen back to a conversation MPR News host Angela Davis had with Steve and Mary Grove about their marriage and shared commitment to the state.

It was the second installment in our Power Pair series, that features conversations with prominent Minnesotans that you may know individually. But in the context of relationship, you get to know them in a fresh, new way.  

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The Star Tribune’s new publisher Steve Grove and startup investor Mary Grove are each other’s biggest fans and big believers in the potential of Minnesota. Listen back to MPR News host Angela Davis’ conversation with the married couple as part of her Power Pair series.

Power Pair: Steve and Mary Grove support each other and Minnesota

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