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The Future of Tech: What It Takes To Be a Leader in the Digital Space

 

 

Panelists: Eva Wong, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Borrowell; Huda Idrees, Founder & CEO, Dot Health; Sage Franch, Co-Founder & CTO, Crescendo

 

Thinking of starting the next million-dollar tech venture? This episode of Live From the Podium features the stories of 3 leading tech entrepreneurs who are shifting the business landscape and making products and services more accessible to clients and consumers. Find out what it takes to start a successful tech company and what it means to be a leader in tech innovation.

 

 

Minutes

Description

2:01

How Eva became an entrepreneur

3:07

Why Eva chose finance

4:12

How Huda came up with the idea of everyone being their own healthcare ceo

5:30

How Sage started her HR Startup

8:03

Why you felt there was a problem needing to be solved (Eva)

9:10

How Huda found out that there was no other company who was doing what she was doing

10:15

The discovery that inclusion is actually a need to be solved (Sage)

10:30

How do you know whether your product is useful or not

11:57

User growth and knowing how you are doing is actually working

13:09

A lot of our assumptions were wrong, working from there

14:15

What is next for Sage, being proactive

15:40

Huda, Dot Health in 5 years

16:29

Eva, Borrowell’ in 5 years

17:19

Sage, being too pretty, too much of a girl to code, to be in tech

18:17

Moment of giving up, starting to be the person she was looking for as a mentor

19:38

Eva, giving up company rough times

20:39

Personal level of struggle, using her gender as a way to stand out and be memorable

21:47

Huda, being a CEO at 12, roll model in her dad

22:40

Bumps and different paths for her, through her tech ideas

23:55

Eva, take the first step, it’s a long journey

24:48

Huda, not being married to the solution. Pivots

25:45

Dealing with people who will tell you that you’re going to fail

26:04

Sage, go all in

27:15

how many hours does go all in take?

18:07

Huda, hours blend in, making routines/structure

28:45

Eva, Multi-task to a point, when at home

30:12

work at home or office?

30:35

1 piece of advice to share with others

32:05

Remember the people

33:55

Personal sacrifices each have made

36:30

Something you know now that you wish you knew sooner

39:10

Rapid fire personal questions: online shopping, good habits, etc.

43:50

Questions from the audience