“My parents emigrated from South Korea to Orange County, California, where I grew up. They were always working—I couldn’t ask them to drop me off and pick me up somewhere after school—so I’d use MySpace and AIM to ‘hang out’ with my school friends. Then I found other online communities. …
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“I grew up in Detroit, and my family mostly worked in automotive plants or were school teachers. When I was growing up I wanted to be a lawyer, because I watched a lot of Matlock with my grandmother and thought lawyers just asked spiffy questions and made a lot of …
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VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Last week, Voicebot.ai reported that Adam Cheyer, a founding member of the startups that built both Siri and Bixby, left Samsung after a two-year stint at the company. Cheyer himself corroborated the report today, telling …
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Rishabh Singhvi’s voice sounded a little strained from the last time we spoke over the phone for a pre-interview for this month’s Entrepreneur of the Month (EOTM) feature. He lamented that the WhyQ team has been working hard to onboard new hawkers onto the platform and are busy coping with …
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As expectation fuels while we edge nearer to the next General Election which must be held by April 2021, business honchos including entrepreneurs and high-flying corporate executives have recently been spotted rubbing shoulders with Members of Parliament (MPs) from the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP). This got people wondering if …
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“I grew up in Brownsville, Texas, which is a border town, and from a very, very early age I wanted to be in fashion. My parents didn’t discourage me, but they definitely encouraged me to do something else. I went to college in Illinois, and there was no strategy to …
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“As a kid I was extremely into fashion and writing and I loved magazines. One of my seminal summer camp memories is that I used to beg our counselors to smuggle back magazines for me after they returned from CVS. In high school I was student council president, I was …
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