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.
My why is the deep belief that if I can do it, everyone can. I want to help people get there.
Absolutely. Now, what years did you come over?
I came over 17 years ago, actually. At that time, there was a revolution going on,
which I took part in. It was called Orange Revolution. At that point, my parents supported
me leaving Ukraine because they saw that it's not going to go really well if I don't leave the
country. With the war, actually, my development team, my immediate family were in Ukraine.
So, a lot of, you know, 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. I was wandering as a
preteen all around London by myself, which blows my mind now that I have a 13-year-old imagining
her all by herself walking around London. But I just had a lot of independence early on.
You know, I walked to school when I was four, and by my, you know, preschool by myself, and just had,
you know, 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.