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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. "

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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

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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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" 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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" Our end goal is for TaskRabbit to be for everybody and everywhere and every device. "

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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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