The Moment We Knew Our Exciting Journey to Success

What this short covers

Lisa Falzone, a repeat tech founder, discusses her journey from elite athlete to entrepreneur, highlighting the discipline, adaptability, and resilience required to navigate the emotional highs and lows of building and scaling companies, including experiencing burnout despite achieving significant valuation.

Transcript

It was like I couldn't sleep. I was so excited and um I just like knew that it was just going to be really big. >> What was that moment like, Lisa, when you were like, I think I think we're into something here. >> Oh, it was like just so so exciting. Um it was just like, wow. Like I'm I know internally like this is this is going to like really work. And so after spending like kind of years wandering around the desert trying to find something that like I like was in love with or like an idea that I really really loved, um when I found it, it was just like magic. It was like I couldn't sleep. I was so excited and um I just like knew that it was just going to be really big. >> And at what point was it the validation that it was going to be really big? You know when when did you get that

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