Ever wondered if you had a bright future after graduating from college hoping to be recruited by a top fortune 500 employer? Ever wondered if you'll be able to work yourself to reaching the top of a company? Ever wondered if you'd be able to not only work yourself to the top of the company, but also retire with a healthy pension? If you often wondered "what if," perhaps you may have a different path with a different calling to adhere to.
This young bright gentleman use the side hustle in college by creating a useful tool for scientists. He was still working on his college degree at the time. Nevertheless, he did the transformation work and looked to the future. Lo and behold, not only did he prosper in his side hustle, but he allegedly became a billionaire along the way. He's an everyday person just like you.
What does it take to succeed in entrepreneurship? In life, negative motivation has a subliminal tendency of bringing out the best in ambitious entrepreneurs in transition from employee to entrepreneur. Life is a daily fight inside your mind and achieving supremacy over adversity. If he can do it, so can you. Why? He's an everyday person just like you moving forward in the uncertain game called life. And, he believed enough in himself to start his own business and not wait until after graduating from college to look for a job in his field of expertise. He carved his own path and forged ahead, even when some people possibly didn't believe in him.
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If you have tremendous challenges in your life such as slanderous family members, loss of a job, being judged by people according to the strength of your finances, judged for the way you dress and think, or judged because of the kind of car you drive, maybe it's time to show the naysayers how much entrepreneurial muscle for the hustle you have, by starting your own business and getting organized without further delay.
She started Canva.com off of a thought as a side hustle.
Below is the video transcript from the Forbes YouTube channel discussing the toll for scientists in the battle against Covid 19:
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I'm the CEO of a company called bench
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Ling and our mission is to accelerate
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the pace of life science research and to
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do that we build software I was in
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school I'm studying computer science
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being programmed in my first love but I
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did a lot of wet lab biology research
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and I thought I was gonna go combine
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them and find a home at a biotech
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company the drug discovery you know I
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realized that wasn't the path for me you
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know and that's when I started
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reflecting on why that was I wanted to
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immerse myself in a more collaborative
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industry and you know I started working
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on benching as a side project it was
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something that I wanted to exist when I
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was in the lab so it's kind of building
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for myself at first I realized that the
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brightest minds were tackling some of
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the world's most pressing pressing
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challenges cures for cancer drought
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resistant crops you know and they were
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being slowed down by archaic tools that
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made it really hard to work together I
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think that's something I realized that
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was done really well in the software
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industry it felt like it was very easy
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to work with a team of people who might
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be all around the world it felt very
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collaborative I think many people will
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still don't realize that despite how
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large the life science industry is most
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scientists are still operating with
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paper and notebooks and spreadsheets and
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email and really disjointed ways to work
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together on really complex work you know
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that's gonna stifle the potential you
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know of the scientific of scientists
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everywhere and I think so much critical
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research time is wasted on busy work
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hunting for missing data
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unnecessarily repeating the same
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experiments so we really create
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adventuring with the vision of making
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life science research what it's meant to
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be a very collaborative process to turn
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ideas into scientific progress and
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improve the lives with people all around
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the world it was incredibly hard to
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raise money
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most software investors were like oh
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like what's biology they didn't really
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understand it which is I think very
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different from what you're seeing today
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today you're seeing this kind of
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convergence you know it comes to
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investors who want to be involved at the
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forefront of both technology and life
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sciences and then all the biology
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investors were like Bailey this is cool
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but we invest in drugs not software and
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so because life science R&D is so
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incredibly complex it also took us years
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to carefully craft the product while
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listening to customers before we were
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able to hit our stride and so the first
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lines of code for benching were written
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in
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summer 2012 but we didn't start really
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taking off from a commercial perspective
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until the end of 2016 that's that's kind
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of four years wandering in the desert in
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some senses and so keeping a team
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together working on the same product and
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really maintaining conviction that's
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gonna work but that long is this tough
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it helped us really prepare though for
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the ups and downs that come with scaling
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a business and I would say our target
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customer are their scientists and by
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definition scientists are going to be
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very skeptical and data-driven which is
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a really great quality and so we've had
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to kind of cross a high bar already in
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order to command their attention and I
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think if you talk to anyone at our
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company you know all 200 some bench
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things we have now they'll probably say
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the same thing is is you know there's a
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lot of great opportunities to work on
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cool software and cool products you know
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in in our industry but the reason they
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chose bench lingos because the impact
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that's going to have on our customers in
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the world
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[Music]
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