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Polina Veksler

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  1. “Yeah, I was really excited to get that job as an investment banker, but then very quickly realized that didn't love it. I didn't love the lifestyle. I didn't love the pressure, but I did get an amazing skill set. And so the first chance that I got, I was able to move to Seattle and work in strategy at Microsoft, which I really enjoyed and worked with a lot of people that I still considered to be role models. And out of the blue one day got a call from an investment bank in Russia and asked if I wanted to move over and much to my parents' dissatisfaction. I took that opportunity really wanting to learn Russian again, see what it was like working in emerging markets. Career path of working in a different country.”

    2022-08-11 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “I think I thought I was going to be a public accountant. I thought that I would go work at a big four and have a very stable job with a very stable paycheck.”

    2022-08-11 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “I was old enough at eight years old to vividly remember certain scenes and certain. Aspects of the immigration process, but I think I was too young to really appreciate the difficulty of it on my parents and what it all really meant. I remember first time we went to Publix, a grocery store, and not having to stand in line and shelves being filled. And I actually remember my mom starting to cry at that grocery store from the overwhelming experience of just being in a place that was so, so different”

    2022-08-11 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “My parents didn't even tell me that I was Jewish until we left Russia. Because I remember even on a playground, and I was really young, but little girls coming up to me and saying, are you Jewish? And I didn't know what that meant. And I would say no. And they would say, okay, then we can play with you. So I did not even know what that meant until we were in the middle of our immigration process.”

    2022-08-11 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “We left when it was still the former Soviet Union and my parents wanted a better life for myself and my brother and the anti-Semitism at the time was quite high and we were lucky enough to be able to leave and end up in Florida.”

    2022-08-11 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT