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Residing within the coronary heart of Silicon Valley in San Francisco, as a minority girl entrepreneur and small enterprise proprietor with massive concepts, I work with VCs, founders, creators, artists, designers, accelerators and technologists from throughout the globe. My yard is made up of overpriced espresso outlets, too cool for varsity pubs, golf equipment, and bars and layered with a few of the smartest (and kindest) people. It is actually a privilege rubbing shoulders with such extremely educated, over-achieving, skilled and courageous expertise aficionados that solely an space just like the Bay Space might entice.
Going about my day, swatting gloomy, if not brutal echoes of one other startup (or enterprise, for that matter) layoff spherical, my womanly intuition is to supply my shoulder, my residence, and my time to mates and friends alike fallen sufferer or eager to vocalize (if you happen to let it out, its lighter, proper?) their fears or impressions of this local weather we’re dwelling in.
My enterprise is communications. I get my perception from listening, observing, asking questions, monitoring traits and making an attempt to place myself in several footwear. I am additionally within the enterprise of simplifying, deciphering, and demystifying actually complicated, complicated, jargon-filled tech-speak – and answerable for translating these sophisticated phrases for the layman. The layman is the patron (you and me), your grandmama, your mother, your partner, the stakeholder, your group member, your investor, an analyst, a reporter, a journalist and your group (whether or not they’re on Discord, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Medium, LinkedIn, Notion, Slack or Sign. You title it).
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