Chloe Shih

So that happened.

I think I had one dream, you know, one dream was to make it in tech and career and make money and pay for a nice high rise apartment and have like a tech crunch headline on myself.

That's a great question.

Uh...

feel like it came in waves i don't think i knew much about tech in college and then it wasn't until i moved over to san francisco and you go to parties and you you read headlines and like oh this this this old classmate of mine became founded a startup that raised 10 million whatever whatever and you're like whoa that's that's cool that that's considered the cool thing to do to be a tech founder so you would

I would – my goal was I'm going to be a tech founder, and there's not a lot of women who are founders, so I'm going to do that.

And I did a lot of leadership in college, so I was like, okay, this is so cool.

I read a bunch of tech books, leadership books, business books.

Yeah, that was my whole being, morning to night, weekends, going to networking events, working extras on Sundays, and then –

Just trying my best to make it in tech, yeah.

I think it was gradually over time.

I think that's totally a hard question for every person.

I think at the time, it probably was making six figures because I hadn't hit that yet.

And then

I wanted to be a product manager because I felt that product managers had so much power in terms of strategic direction.

Whereas when I was in BD at the company, you were support, like you couldn't do much.

You had to wait for product.

So I really wanted to be at like, I don't know, position of power.

And engineers were always, always on a pedestal.

So that was a path of success.