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If you don't mind, I would love to hear the story behind your why, but from your own words. You

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came from Ukraine at a time period when I believe the war was going on too. Do you mind sharing

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anything about that story? I think the listeners would really benefit from it.

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Absolutely. I think in a lot of ways, I'm an unlikely founder. I'm not technical. I am female.

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I am immigrant. I came to US to pursue my American dream and that dream materialized.

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My why is the deep belief that if I can do it, everyone can. I want to help people get there.

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Absolutely. Now, what years did you come over?

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I came over 17 years ago, actually. At that time, there was a revolution going on,

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which I took part in. It was called Orange Revolution. At that point, my parents supported

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me leaving Ukraine because they saw that it's not going to go really well if I don't leave the

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country. With the war, actually, my development team, my immediate family were in Ukraine.

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So, a lot of, you know, I was, of course, directly affected and did everything too,

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and continue to do everything to support folks over there.

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Yeah. Now, you speak English super well. Did you speak English back then or was that new?

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How did you pick up English so well? Thank you. Yeah, I started thanks to my

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parents. I started learning English when I was five. I actually won some competition that

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brought me at a young age of 12 to UK for some summer programs. I was wandering as a

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preteen all around London by myself, which blows my mind now that I have a 13-year-old imagining

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her all by herself walking around London. But I just had a lot of independence early on.

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You know, I walked to school when I was four, and by my, you know, preschool by myself, and just had,

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you know, I think a lot of independence, and that allowed me to pursue English as well as

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just have the audacity to pursue various other things in life.