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With that diverse background and the adversities you had, for the sake of the audience,

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where did your vision come from of wanting to help founders move their vision forward?

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That's a fantastic question. And I think that my own journey is a journey of resilience and

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not giving up on my dreams. I'm originally from Ukraine. I got to US to first build my corporate

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career as successfully going through Wharton Business School, Boston Consulting Group and

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climbing corporate ladder at Dell. And then building my startup also from scratch,

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because I thought life was too easy in a corporate world. And I think what brings me to support

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others is just knowing how hard the journey is and how many mistakes and sometimes deadly mistakes

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folks can make on their journey. So just want to make their journey easier. And also, I think,

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having been through that as immigrant founder, female founder in tech, just knowing how important

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mindset is in this whole journey, way more important than whatever tactics and tricks you can learn.

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That's something I think that I'm able to impart on the founders I work with and certainly share

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a piece of my resilience and never ending optimism with them.