I hope to encourage women in the audience to keep going, as their success will inspire more women to start their own companies, contributing to a long-term change in the startup landscape.

As a female founder, I realized that fundraising is particularly challenging, and I wanted to help level the playing field for future female entrepreneurs.

The world needs more female founders; if you set a goal and keep going, you'll figure it out.

I decided to pursue my startup idea because it kept gaining momentum, despite the challenges I faced. I set up my startup as a four-week test to validate my idea without high expectations.

I'm very happy to be here because three years ago, I was actually in the crowd at a female founders conference before we got into Y Combinator, so I feel like I've closed the loop.

For female founders, the most important step is to start, regardless of the obstacles; taking big swings is crucial for success.

The second time as a founder, I focused on building something that works and sought to disprove things with my first set of customers.

After selling my first company to Groupon, I wanted to work on something that would inspire me and allow me to create new skills and knowledge. I never want to be 80 years old looking backwards and wondering what if I tried.

Despite initial rejection from Y Combinator, I focused on their encouragement to reapply, which motivated me to improve my startup. I set myself the goal to grow by 10 to 20% every single week, pretending as if I got into Y Combinator.