What is your vision for others?
My vision is to elevate founders
and help them achieve their hopes and dreams.
I know entrepreneurial path is full of ups and downs
and I'm excited to be by their side
to help elevate them on their journey
so they can persevere and achieve the results they want.
That's awesome.
You have a diverse background of trials and adversities
to get your own going.
So with that diverse background
and the adversities you had,
for the sake of the audience,
where did your vision come from
wanting to help founders move their vision forward?
That's a fantastic question.
And I think that my own journey is a journey of resilience
and not giving up on my dreams.
I'm originally from Ukraine.
I got to US to first build my corporate career
successfully going through Wharton Business School,
Boston Consulting Group at climbing corporate ladder at Dell
and then building my startup also from scratch
because I thought life was too easy in a corporate world.
And I think what brings me to support others
is just knowing how hard the journey is
and how many mistakes and sometimes deadly mistakes
folks can make on their journey.
So just want to make their journey easier
and also I think having been through that
as immigrant founder, female founder in tech,
just knowing how important mindset is in this whole journey
way more important than whatever tactics
and tricks you can learn.
And that's something I think that I'm able to impart
on the founders I work with
and certainly share a piece of my resilience
and a never-ending optimism with them.
I love it.
If you don't mind, I would love to hear
the story behind your why, but from your own words.
You came from Ukraine at a time period
when I believe the war was going on too.
Do you mind sharing anything about that story?
I think the listeners would really benefit from it.
Absolutely, I think in a lot of ways,
I'm an unlikely founder.
I'm not technical.
I am female.
I am immigrant.
I came to US to pursue my American dream
and that dream materialized.
And my why is the deep belief that if I can do it,
everyone can and I want to help people get there.
Absolutely, now what years did you come over?
I came over 17 years ago actually,
but at the time that the war,
at that time there was revolution going on
which I took part in.
It was called Orange Revolution.
And at that point, my parents supported me
in leaving Ukraine because they saw
that it's not gonna go really well
if I don't leave the country.
But with the war, actually my development team,
my immediate family were in Ukraine.
So a lot of, I was of course directly affected
and did everything too and continue to do everything
to support folks over there.
Yeah, now you speak English super well.
Did you speak English back then or was that new?
How did you pick up English so well?
Thank you.
Yeah, I started thanks to my parents.
I started learning English when I was five.
I actually won some competition that brought me
at a young age of 12 to UK for some summer programs.
And I was wondering as a preteen all around London
by myself, which blows my mind now
that I have a 13 year old imagine her all by herself
walking around London.
But I just had a lot of independence early on.
I walked to school when I was four
and by my preschool by myself and just had,
I think a lot of independence and that allowed me
to pursue English as well as just have the audacity
to pursue various other things in life.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions
as these episodes continue to move forward.
This is gonna get more and more fun.
We'll have more and more engagement as well.
We'll invite people to participate in the show
and thank you for giving us your time and attention.
Have an excellent time building out your vision
and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.