Tina Seelig

And I was staying at a hotel nearby, got up in the morning to get a cup of tea at the little cafe in the hotel.

And there I know this, I'm very tuned to the fact that you never know what opportunity is in that room.

So there's a lovely young woman standing next to me in line and I just turned to her and I said, oh, what a beautiful dress.

And it was a beautiful dress that she had on and she said, oh, it's Rent the Runway.

I said, oh, that's so interesting.

Some of my former students tell me they use it and they really, really like it.

So we ended up having a conversation.

And then she said, oh, well, you have students.

Where do you teach?

And I said, I teach at Stanford.

She said, oh, I went to Stanford Business School.

We ended up the conversation continued.

By the time we finished, we were connected on LinkedIn.

And who knows where that relationship will go at some point in the future.

The fact is that would never have happened if I didn't just say hello.

And some of my closest colleagues have resulted from having these very informal connections with someone.

One of them is a woman.

I was standing in that line on getting onto an airplane, and I had a backpack that had a logo from a conference I had gone to.

And she said, oh, are you, you know, did you go to that conference?

I said, yeah.