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Failure was not an option for me.
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Option
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We all have that long to-do list.
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Long
List
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My dad owned Cadillacs all my life.
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Life Dad My Life
All My Life
Owned
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It was never an option to not succeed.
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Option
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I think that people need a livable wage.
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People Need Think
Livable
Wage
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I don't think everyone wants to be a CEO.
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Ceo
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I believe you accomplish what you measure.
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Accomplish
Measure
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There are always people looking for extra income.
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Income
Extra
Looking People Always
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I actually studied accounting in college. So I'm a CPA.
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Accounting
Studied
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I grew up in the city of Detroit, where things were just bad.
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Detroit
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I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.
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Relate
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Our end goal is for TaskRabbit to be for everybody and everywhere and every device.
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Device
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I fell in love with the vision of TaskRabbit, which is to revolutionize everyday work.
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Everyday
Revolutionize
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Everybody in my family who had a job worked in the auto industry or something related to it.
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Auto Industry
Related
Auto
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The emotional side of humans interacting with each other is what makes TaskRabbit what it is.
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Interacting
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I'm a representative of what you can become if you work hard and you focus on your education.
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Focus
Education Work Your
Representative
Work Hard
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The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.
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Deciding
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Expanding internationally is exciting and fun, but the hardest part is really about maintaining culture.
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Expanding
Maintaining
Hardest Part
Internationally
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Sheryl Sandberg was a mentor and a champion for me, and she saw something in me that I didn't see in myself.
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Myself Champion Me
Saw
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TaskRabbit is a safe and convenient way for you to hire someone to help you with your chores around the house.
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Chores
Convenient
House
Safe
Hire
Way Help Your
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I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.
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Talk Radio
Fill
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I like to swim a few times a week. It's relaxing, and no one can call, email, or text me while I'm in the pool.
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Pool
Swim
Relaxing
Text
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The future of work is changing. It's becoming a world where you are owning a lot about how you make your living.
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Work Future World
Owning
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The hardest moments of your life in your 20s will provide some of the greatest lessons that will come in handy later.
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Handy
Lessons
Moments
Greatest
Life Will Your
Later
Provide
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I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.
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My Time
Prioritize
Strategy
Time Process People
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The way to connect to people is to relate to who they are and do something that stretches you outside of your comfort zone.
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Comfort
Comfort Zone
Relate
Zone
Your People Way
Your People Comfort
Connect
Outside
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I walk into a room, there's one or two black women. There aren't that many because the pipeline of talent just isn't there.
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Pipeline
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In the future, when I come home, most of the things that I need to worry about are solved so I can spend time with my family.
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Family Future Time
Solved
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There are lots of little brown girls out there who want to do something to change the world, and all I want to do is help them get there.
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Change The World
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When I joined Google, it was 1,000 people. It took me two and a half years to look around and realize there weren't a lot of people like me.
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Look Me People
Half Years
Joined
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You have to do what it takes to get what you want: I didn't sleep much in school because I worked a lot - you figure out how to make it happen.
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Make It Happen
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One goal for Silicon Valley must be to redouble our collective efforts to make sure people of all backgrounds are aware of opportunities in tech.
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Backgrounds
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Collective
Efforts
Tech
Valley
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I was surprised by the attention and visibility on me as a black woman CEO. I look forward to the day when this is the norm and not the exception.
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Ceo
Exception
Norm
Visibility
Me Look Day
Look Black Me
Surprised
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TaskRabbit is making life better for both consumers and Taskers. In the communities in which we operate, TaskRabbit provides strong economic impact.
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Operate
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A lot of entrepreneurship is seeing the future in a way that no one else sees it. Then, it becomes about execution and doing what it takes to succeed.
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Execution
Sees
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When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens.
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Loneliness
African
Immediate
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What we get to do at TaskRabbit is create jobs. I'm excited about the opportunity that we have to what I think of is creating everyday work for everyday people.
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Everyday
Work Opportunity People
Everyday People
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I used to watch 'The Jetsons' growing up. I used to think that this woman, Rosie, the robot housekeeper, was going to exist. I think we're far away from that happening.
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Far Away
Rosie
Housekeeper
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Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.
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Business School
Meant To Be
Business Me School
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I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you.
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Police Officer
Officer
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With Ikea Group ownership, TaskRabbit could realize even greater opportunities: increasing earning potential of Taskers and connecting consumers to a wide range of affordable services.
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Affordable
Connecting
Earning
Ownership
Range
Wide
Increasing
Services
Wide Range
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I grew up in the city of Detroit, where a lot of people didn't have work opportunities, but they were good, hard-working people, including I had a single mom who took care of me and my brother.
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Brother
Care
Detroit
Grew
Including
Single
Single Mom
Work Good Mom
City
Hard-Working
Opportunities
Took
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I went to a special public school that was much more focused on academics and learning. My two best teachers were in accounting and calculus, so I fell in love with that, which made me want to go into business.
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Accounting
Calculus
Public School
Academics
Love Best Business
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My mother was a single mom, and she was a claims adjuster at an insurance company. She actually dropped out of school - she was going to become a registered nurse - because she had to take care of me and my brother.
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Mom
Brother
Care
Claims
Company
Mother
Nurse
School
Single
Single Mom
Take Care
Mom Mother Me
Actually
Mom Me Care
Dropped
Insurance
Registered
She
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When I was 14, I remember wanting a Coach bag, and my mother couldn't afford it. I decided at that age that I was going to grow up and get a job so that I could buy as many handbags as I wanted. And no one was ever going to stop me.
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Decided
Handbags
Age Mother Me
Afford
Age Me Remember
Bag
Age Me Grow
Coach
Grow Up
Wanting
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The big problem is that a lot of Americans, whether they are underrepresented minorities or from rural areas, do not know about career opportunities in the tech industry because they may not have had role models who are part of this field or learned about STEM in school.
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Minorities
Models
Role Models
Rural Areas
Stem
Big Problem
Rural
Tech
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I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother's salary for a year. My mom said, 'We can't afford it.' So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way.
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Grants
Ivy
Ivy League
League
Salary
Tuition
Afford
Cover
Package
Penn
Scholarships
Sent
Several
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