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#116 - Domonique Fines and Cadran Cowansage
Y Combinator
English - March 11, 2019 09:00 - 21 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsTechnology Business Careers business entrepreneurship startups interview technology productivity culture the 4-hour workweek tim ferriss tim ferris Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Domonique Fines is the Director of Events at YC.
Cadran Cowansage is the cofounder and CEO of Elpha. Elpha is a private online community for women in tech.
Join Elpha to read Dom's AMA.
You can find Dom on Twitter at @domoniquefines and Cadran at @cadran_c.
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Topics
00:30 - Dom’s intro
00:50 - How Dom started in events and her background
2:25 - Deciding to not go to law school
3:55 - Choosing to work on tech events
6:00 - Outreach to underrepresented founders
9:15 - Common misconceptions about getting into tech
10:35 - University outreach
11:55 - Identifying problems to fix and not being blocked
14:35 - Reflecting on accomplishments
15:40 - Dom’s career plans
17:10 - Will Dom do a startup?
17:35 - Avoiding burnout
20:55 - The importance of just getting started