Inspiring

Scott Forstall

In 1992, Scott Forstall had just gotten his graduate degree, and lined up interviews with two big tech companies: Microsoft, where he had previously been an...
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Melanie Perkins

Melanie Perkins, then 22 and a university drop-out had flown all the way from her home in Perth, Australia, to Palo Alto, California, for the meeting...
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Q May Chen

Taiwanese woman Q May Chen was given an devastating diagnosis: she had stage 4 breast cancer. This information was particularly heartbreaking for the 29-year-old, as she had triumphantly beat...
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Sara Blakely

Before she became the billionaire founder of shapewear company Spanx, Sara Blakely failed a lot. – She didn’t make it as a standup comedian. She couldn’t become a lawyer...
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Sophia Amoruso

A misfit who grew up hating school, Sophia Amoruso left home at 17, intent on a life of anarchy and getting by for free. She says...
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Liz Murray

Elizabeth “Liz” Murray was born in the Bronx, New York to poor and drug-addicted parents, both of whom would later contract HIV. Some of her earliest...
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Jack Welch

Jack Welch says “I blew up a (GE) factory the first year I was there.” I was in mid-twenties then. “I was running a little pilot...
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Greta Thunberg

On August 20, 2018, Thunberg posted a picture of herself sitting outside Sweden’s parliament building, the Riksdag. “We children don’t usually do what you grown-ups tell...
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Abigail Harrison

There are some kids who continue to breathe life into their childhood dreams until they become a reality. Abigail Harrison, better known as Astronaut Abby, is...
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Scott Ginsberg

On a dare – or a bet – Scott Ginsberg wore an event nametag over a weekend while at college. It didn’t take long for him...
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