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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. "

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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" I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" Expanding internationally is exciting and fun, but the hardest part is really about maintaining culture. "

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" The big problem is that a lot of Americans, whether they are underrepresented minorities or from rural areas, do not know about career opportunities in the tech industry because they may not have had role models who are part of this field or learned about STEM in school. "

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" TaskRabbit is a safe and convenient way for you to hire someone to help you with your chores around the house. "

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" With Ikea Group ownership, TaskRabbit could realize even greater opportunities: increasing earning potential of Taskers and connecting consumers to a wide range of affordable services. "

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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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" I have learned, as I get older, just to be who I am. "

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" It was never an option to not succeed. "

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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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" Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be. "

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" I grew up in the city of Detroit, where things were just bad. "

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" My dad owned Cadillacs all my life. "

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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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" We all have that long to-do list. "

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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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" There are always people looking for extra income. "

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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'm a representative of what you can become if you work hard and you focus on your education. "

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" Everyone loves bunnies. "

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" Failure was not an option for me. "

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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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" You have to learn to get through it yourself, because there are going to be times in your life when there's going to be no one else around but you. "

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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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" 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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" 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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