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Creating a voice & venture for those unable to speak with Dr. Maheen Mausoof Adamson, CEO of Soof Solutions

My belief is that every person should have their last words, because humans have two basic things that make us separate from other creatures on the planet. Standing upright and the ablity to communicate extensively, called language.

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Protecting our kids online with Megs Shah, CEO and Founder of Parasol Cooperative

When you're building products that have high user retention, it's largely because they trust you. And trust is based on how they feel safe within your application and whether their data is safe within their application.

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Creating Life at Home & a Founder's Journey in Infertility with Dr. Jennifer Hintzsche, Ph.D, CEO of PherDal

Essentially they were just trying to get sperm closer to the egg. And I thought, well shoot, I can do that myself at home. So we spell "fertile" with the PhD because I had to use my PhD to prove them wrong.

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Building a Pet Care empire with 10x Ironman and 3x founder, Alex Douzet, CEO of Pumpkin

When you're an incumbent and you're in the industry, you have personal biases one way or the other. You might be conscious of it or not, and that can hold you back.

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A better way to pay employees + the Art of Focus w/ Nico Simko, CEO and Co-founder of Clair

Trasnparently, when you build companies, they're like houses. The foundations really mater. At Clair we have state by state disclosures and our compliance team is as important as our product team. If you don't have those things culturally, it's very hard to adapt backwards.

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Going from 0 to 1 internationally, w/ Tim Fung, CEO and Co founder of Airtasker

And it ended up being that over about five years we 20x our revenue with that marketing strategy, and grew brand awareness from about 6 to 60%.

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