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" I actually studied accounting in college. So I'm a CPA. "
Stacy Brown-Philpot
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" I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate. "
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" When I was 14, I remember wanting a Coach bag, and my mother couldn't afford it. I decided at that age that I was going to grow up and get a job so that I could buy as many handbags as I wanted. And no one was ever going to stop me. "
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" I don't think everyone wants to be a CEO. "
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" I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother's salary for a year. My mom said, 'We can't afford it.' So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way. "
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" I grew up in the city of Detroit, where a lot of people didn't have work opportunities, but they were good, hard-working people, including I had a single mom who took care of me and my brother. "
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" Sheryl Sandberg was a mentor and a champion for me, and she saw something in me that I didn't see in myself. "
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" I fell in love with the vision of TaskRabbit, which is to revolutionize everyday work. "
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" My mother was a single mom, and she was a claims adjuster at an insurance company. She actually dropped out of school - she was going to become a registered nurse - because she had to take care of me and my brother. "
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" TaskRabbit is making life better for both consumers and Taskers. In the communities in which we operate, TaskRabbit provides strong economic impact. "
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" I used to watch 'The Jetsons' growing up. I used to think that this woman, Rosie, the robot housekeeper, was going to exist. I think we're far away from that happening. "
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" Everybody in my family who had a job worked in the auto industry or something related to it. "
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" The future of work is changing. It's becoming a world where you are owning a lot about how you make your living. "
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" I was surprised by the attention and visibility on me as a black woman CEO. I look forward to the day when this is the norm and not the exception. "
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" When I joined Google, it was 1,000 people. It took me two and a half years to look around and realize there weren't a lot of people like me. "
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" I'm a representative of what you can become if you work hard and you focus on your education. "
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" You have to do what it takes to get what you want: I didn't sleep much in school because I worked a lot - you figure out how to make it happen. "
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" I grew up in the city of Detroit, where things were just bad. "
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" What we get to do at TaskRabbit is create jobs. I'm excited about the opportunity that we have to what I think of is creating everyday work for everyday people. "
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" The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want. "
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" The hardest moments of your life in your 20s will provide some of the greatest lessons that will come in handy later. "
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" In the future, when I come home, most of the things that I need to worry about are solved so I can spend time with my family. "
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" I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you. "
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" The emotional side of humans interacting with each other is what makes TaskRabbit what it is. "
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" When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens. "
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