Chloe Shih

At Google, I felt like I just had no power to change anything because I was so low level.

I was like extraordinarily entry level.

So it's like, okay, I'm not going to grow a lot.

And then when I went to the startup, I poured all of my heart into everything.

That was my full identity.

Like, you know, tech people, our identity is our career.

If we don't have our career down right, there's nothing else going for us.

Like that is where we live.

We live and breathe Silicon Valley success headlines and career, TC, everything.

Oh, total compensation.

Okay.

We just care about how much money we make.

the startup was amazing in year one because we were the whole problem that we were trying to solve is like trying to make a live streaming community that's actually um positive and safe for the future of the youth it's like oh live streaming at the time was very not moderated it was um 2017 and it was like awful and so we wanted to make a live streaming platform for gaming that

we would be proud that our children are on.

So it started really wholesome.

And then it evolved into something way more mainstream after we raised, we had like our series B with Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners at 47 mil.

And then a year, two years after that, we raised another 100 mil from 21st Century Fox.

And that was when it attracted a lot of like eyeballs in the media.

And it brought in probably a lot of personalities that were like, oh my God, there's money now.

There's like for the money and for the fame.