Shaan Puri

So she was saying like, that changed my life.

So today, Christina is the CEO of this, I don't know, $5 billion tech company, close to 10 billion maybe at some point, called Vanta.

And so I asked her about her process getting there.

And her story was like, she was like an associate VC or something at Union Square Ventures.

had never learned to code in her life and decided to teach herself to code.

She like would dress up like she's going to work, go to a coworking space, sit at the same desk every day, like treated it like a job.

I was like, I'm going to make shit.

I'm going to make a lot of shit.

And so she shared this list of projects on her website.

So these are like, you know, ruffling.

She goes roughly in chronological order.

Most of these things never saw the daylight, which is probably for the best.

And it's like, I don't know, 25 different little mini projects that she built.

during this time.

And so she was making a lot of pots.

And then she, so she tells a story about the pottery experiment, how this had this, it changed her thinking, how she built all these different projects.

And of course the last one, which really didn't even use code.

It was just a spreadsheet in Excel, which was, let me help.

Let me see if I can make a useful spreadsheet in Excel for any company that wants to get their SOC 2, you know, security certificate.

And so she,