An entrepreneur explains why she starts companies around genuine unsolved problems rather than just wanting to build something. She channels anger at inequities in education into persistence on hard work, treating the emotion as fuel instead of something to suppress.
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How do I say? Persistent, going after this problem. So it was two things, actually. One, I actually wasn't looking for a problem, a company to start, so I didn't feel that pressure. I was actually looking for a problem that needed solving. And if it was somebody else solving it, I would have joined that company. So I didn't, you know, that allowed me to say, like, where is this real? How do I. I'm going to apply myself to something for the next many years. I don't want to waste my time or their time. So it's got to be something that I feel like I'm aligned to solving. It's a real problem we're solving that I care about. So that was one. But two, personally, the inequity that I came to feel and then understand in the world made me very angry. And the anger drives me. And sometimes when I feel the tension between trying to make money and trying to help schools, I allow that anger to drive me. I allow it to help me persist, even when it's not fun to do so. So anger is often a bad word. And it's not like I yell and express anger, but I feel that anger. And I feel. And that anger makes me want to do more and not give up.