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My Life's Work
startups
Shuo Wang Once Sold Scooters at Flea Markets—Now Her Startup Is Worth $12 Billion
By
Annie Goldsmith
· March 11, 2023 7:00 AM PST ·
2 comments
When Shuo Wang was 16, she got her first sales job and learned what she considers the biggest lesson in business. Despite not speaking English well, Wang sold scooters at flea markets in and around Washington, D.C., an offshoot of her mother’s business of selling motorcycles and scooters wholesale. Decades later, Wang attributes many of...
When Shuo Wang was 16, she got her first sales job and learned what she considers the biggest...
My Life's Work
The Founder Who Wants to Turn Drones Into Crime Fighters
By
Margaux MacColl
· Feb. 11, 2023 7:00 AM PST ·
3 comments
Blake Resnick’s life changed forever on October 1, 2017, when a shooter opened fire on the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest country music festival. While he was safe at his Las Vegas home, his best friend was near the shooting and called Resnick for help. It was a traumatic and sobering moment for Resnick, who at 17 became obsessed with how...
Blake Resnick’s life changed forever on October 1, 2017, when a shooter opened fire on the...
My Life's Work
ai
The Astrophysicist Who Pivoted to AI and Nanotech
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Annie Goldsmith
· Jan. 21, 2023 7:00 AM PST ·
1 comment
“I always bring an umbrella and sunglasses—hope for the best, plan for the worst,” said Alice Globus, who is building her career on the same philosophy. Globus is the New York–based chief financial officer of Nanotronics, which is bringing artificial intelligence to manufacturing, automating processes for making...
“I always bring an umbrella and sunglasses—hope for the best, plan for the...
The Frustrated Athletes Who Reinvented the Tampon in Their Stanford Dorm Room
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Margaux MacColl
· Jan. 14, 2023 9:00 AM PST ·
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venture capital
The Frustrated Athletes Who Reinvented the Tampon in Their Stanford Dorm Room
By
Margaux MacColl
· Jan. 14, 2023 9:00 AM PST ·
6 comments
Amanda Calabrese has traveled all over the world as a competitive lifeguard—picture a decathlon, but at the beach—diving into 15-foot waves in South Africa and sprinting across Italian beaches. But she struggled to find a tampon that wouldn’t leak during competitions. During her senior year at Stanford University, she met up...
Amanda Calabrese has traveled all over the world as a competitive lifeguard—picture a...
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The Founder Who Turned His Love of Tinkering Into a Data-Processing Gold Mine
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Arielle Pardes
· Nov. 26, 2022 6:00 AM PST ·
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When Alexander Gallego started his first company in 2014, he approached it with the same determination he’d used to learn English as a teenager, or to navigate the admissions process as a first-generation college student: “I just had to figure it out,” he said. “I had no backup plan.” Gallego, who was born in...
When Alexander Gallego started his first company in 2014, he approached it with the same...
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The Wunderkind Who Won Over NASA, Stanford and Peter Thiel
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Margaux MacColl
· Nov. 12, 2022 6:00 AM PST ·
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When George Sivulka was 12, he was building lasers that could light fires. At 16 he had an internship at NASA. By 22, he was hanging out with Peter Thiel, talking for hours about artificial intelligence and philosophy. Thiel, thoroughly impressed, wrote one of the first checks for Hebbia, Sivulka’s AI-powered search engine. Instead of relying on...
When George Sivulka was 12, he was building lasers that could light fires. At 16 he had an...
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culture
The Founder Who Escaped Deportation by Building a Business in 60 Days
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Margaux MacColl
· Oct. 1, 2022 7:00 AM PDT ·
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It was early 2021 when Sampei Omichi’s deportation countdown started: He had 60 days left on his student visa before he would have to leave the country. The then–21-year-old’s only option was to found a startup to qualify for an international entrepreneur parole, which allows entrepreneurs to stay in the country for over two years— assuming, of...
It was early 2021 when Sampei Omichi’s deportation countdown started: He had 60 days left on his...
The Founder Who Got High on a Rooftop and Came Down With a Business
By
Margaux MacColl
· Aug. 13, 2022 6:00 AM PDT
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The Founder Who Got High on a Rooftop and Came Down With a Business
By
Margaux MacColl
· Aug. 13, 2022 6:00 AM PDT
Watching the app you built hit the 10 million-download threshold would be a career high for most founders. But for Ben-Zion Benkhin, it’s just another day at the office. Within the last two years, Benkhin, 26, has launched two wildly popular artificial intelligence–based apps. The first was Wombo.ai, which uses AI to create highly shareable,...
Watching the app you built hit the 10 million-download threshold would be a career high for most...
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How an Invite and a Pivot Changed Everything for the Founders of Sneaker Brand Atoms
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Margaux MacColl
· July 16, 2022 7:00 AM PDT ·
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In 2015, when married founders Waqas Ali and Sidra Qasim arrived at Y Combinator, they weren’t yet fluent in English. The pair had traveled from Pakistan, where their handmade leather shoe business had become a viral sensation. But at Y Combinator’s famous Demo Day, they looked at all the rival entrepreneurs wearing fashionable sneakers, and...
In 2015, when married founders Waqas Ali and Sidra Qasim arrived at Y Combinator, they weren’t...
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startups
As a Kid, Samantha John Recoiled From Videogames. Now She’s Teaching Kids to Code Them
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Annie Goldsmith
· June 25, 2022 7:00 AM PDT
This is “My Life’s Work,” a series about the unique life experiences that influenced the careers of tech founders and executives. Interviews have been edited and condensed for clarity. For the past decade, Samantha John, 35, and her co-founder, Jocelyn Leavitt, have been helping kids learn to code. Their app, Hopscotch, teaches children...
This is “My Life’s Work,” a series about the unique life experiences that influenced the careers...
My Life's Work
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The Child Prodigy Turned Founder Who Wants to Loan You Some 401(k) Cash
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Margaux MacColl
· May 28, 2022 7:00 AM PDT ·
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Sheridan Clayborne is used to being the youngest person in the room. He was 15 when he got into Northwestern University, 17 when he made his first million, and 19 when he landed a job at Dropbox. Now, at 22, he’s raised $24 million for his startup, Lendtable, which helps people fulfill their employer’s 401(k) matches. Founded in 2020, Lendtable...
Sheridan Clayborne is used to being the youngest person in the room. He was 15 when he got into...
How a Founder’s Childhood in India Inspired His Fight Against Climate Change
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Annie Goldsmith
· March 18, 2022 12:00 PM PDT ·
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startups
How a Founder’s Childhood in India Inspired His Fight Against Climate Change
By
Annie Goldsmith
· March 18, 2022 12:00 PM PDT ·
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This is “My Life’s Work,” a series about the unique life experiences that influenced the careers of tech founders and executives. Interviews have been edited and condensed for clarity. After reading the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Shashank Samala saw a need to not only reduce carbon emissions, but remove...
This is “My Life’s Work,” a series about the unique life experiences that influenced the careers...
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venture capital
How a Venture Founder’s Aesthetics Obsession Influences How She Picks Companies
By
Malique Morris
· March 4, 2022 2:00 PM PST ·
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This isMy Life’s Work, a column about the unique life experiencesthat influenced the careers of tech founders and executives. Interviews have been edited and condensed for clarity. Sarah Kunst’s venture fund, Cleo Capital, which she founded in 2018, has invested in culture-shifting media companies like Cameo and MasterClass, cryptocurrency...
This isMy Life’s Work, a column about the unique life experiencesthat influenced the careers of...
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How a Founder’s Family of Surgeons Inspired ‘The Match.com of Hospitals and Nurses’
By
Annie Goldsmith
· Feb. 25, 2022 12:00 PM PST
In our new column, My Life’s Work, we ask tech founders and executives how their unique life experiences influenced their careers. Interviews have been edited and condensed for clarity. When Dr. Iman Abuzeid founded Incredible Health, a staffing engine for nurses, in 2017, she didn’t anticipate that a pandemic would soon make hiring healthcare...
In our new column, My Life’s Work, we ask tech founders and executives how their unique life...
My Life's Work
startups
culture
The Founder Who Went Up a Mountain in Nepal and Came Down a Better Leader
By
Annie Goldsmith
· Feb. 11, 2022 12:00 PM PST ·
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In our new column, My Life’s Work, we ask tech founders and executives how their unique life experiences influenced their careers. Interviews have been edited and condensed for clarity. When Hilary Coles co-founded Hims in 2017, the company focused on two key areas: men’s hair loss and erectile dysfunction, offering telehealth solutions and...
In our new column, My Life’s Work, we ask tech founders and executives how their unique life...
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