Ilana Golan

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan · From Losing Everything to Startup of the Year: Ilana Golan’s 5 Shifts to Reinvent Yourself · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

I did lose almost everything I've had in my life.

And to give some context, I did leap again, again in my career from Air Force to engineering and Intel, all the way to vice president in a tech startup.

And at some point, a friend of mine, he's somebody I knew for many, many years, uh, came to me and said, He Lana, let's start a company together.

I got so excited.

We, you know, we roll up our sleeves.

I was working on it day and night, and I got

So excited.

And we're we're at the typical Silicon Valley story.

Within a few weeks, we even raised capital.

And it wasn't for one small investor, it was from three prominent Silicon Valley investors.

They were valuating a little baby at almost five million dollars.

It was like a dream come true.

I remember looking at the term sheet, closing my eyes, thinking.

How did they get this lucky?

So good doing but the goodbye party from my previous job as a vice president.

I told everybody about the startup of the company that the company that we're forming, the money we raised.

I was so excited.

Little did I know that it will blow in my face.

Exactly the same day within 24 hours.

My co-founder decided to take the money, throw me out of the business, and I was left with nothing.

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