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Victoria Yampolsky

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first: 2022-05-26
most recent: 2022-05-26
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Project for me has been a testament to human kindness and how much can be achieved when you come at something from love and from your heart. And so I would ask everybody to go on a website, learn about the project, spread awareness and support us in any way you can because anything you do will help you Ukrainians who are in trouble right now. And just think about this. If you were in a war zone right now, wouldn't you want somebody to help you”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Our website is worldunite for Ukraine.com. There is a link to say get tickets that will take you to amend the link site where you can get tickets. We're also set merchandising there designed by Ukrainian and Moldova-born artists. There are t-shirts and posters available. All of this can be bought on the Mandalink site. And if you are interested in becoming a corporate sponsor, then my email is victoria at WorldUnite for Ukraine.com and I will be happy to send you more info about how you can participate.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That is correct, but who is to say what can change the type of incorporation? We did what made sense given how much time we had to achieve our objectives. And then as more problems arise, we evaluate and solve those problems. So that has been our approach to this project from the beginning.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I believe that what we've created is incredible and whatever is meant to happen, that's what's been meant to happen by the universe, whatever outcome we're going to get, that's what we were meant to get. And it can only be a positive outcome because there was nothing before, whatever we create will go to help Ukrainians and it will continue to live on. So there is no failure in our specific enterprise because there's only upside to doing good.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think that I should do that because they have their own reasons and priorities. I can only say that we all know about those companies that still supported the Nazis and did not exit doing business with Germany. And so we still remember who they are. However, some of them are still successful companies today. I believe that this is a personal decision for everybody and they're obviously business considerations to be taken into account as well.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My personal opinion is that everybody in Ukraine is affected by the war in a much bigger way than anybody in Russia except those people who are physically fighting. So if the cost of realizing that the country is violating the length of another country, if the cost of this is losing your job or not having some products in a supermarket or in other stores, then for me that's a signal for their collective consciousness to be awakened so that they realize how is a country that got to the point where a dictator was able to stay in power for so long and we ended up in a situation that we did.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't actually have any life members of my family in Russia. I do have some colleagues in Russia. They say that they're against the war, but that's a very small percentage of people. From what I hear of the grapevine of the Russian immigrant community, unfortunately there is a big divide between people who are outside of Russia and the people who are still in Russia. And families often can talk to each other because families that are still in Russia have been brainwashed and they fully support the invasion. Whereas people who are outside and able to get a more objective news coverage of what's going on, they are obviously against the aggression.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And to my personal life, yes, that's a sacrifice that I'm willing to make because I believe that people who are in Ukraine now, they don't have an ability to take a break, they don't have an ability to go outside. A lot of them don't feel safe. Some of them already are under a lot of trauma. Some of them lost everything. Some of them lost their body parts if they have been in a worse situation. I'm incredibly more lucky. So if I can just donate my time to be able to help them and to unite others to help them as well, then this is my as a human being, I feel that it's my calling. And everybody on our team feels the same way. There are some people who don't even have a connection direct connection to Ukraine that just feel very affected by the crisis because we're humans and we respond to pain.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there are nights and weekends, and I am a highly organized person, and I think I'm benefiting from all of my time management skills right now. But it is a challenge. However, for me, there's no better way for me to spend my time than to help people in need. And I'm very happy and I feel very fortunate that I can do it.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We would like to get a host who is an A level talent to help us sell more tickets. We're looking for corporate sponsors. And I guess if there is any big band that would like to support us and submit a video for the concert that will help us reach our goal as well. And we're looking for interviews on where we can go.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely, whatever we raise will go towards for Ukraine, and we don't have to stop at any point, right? We can continue working on this and supporting Blue Check and potential other charity partners that may come on board.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, it's the same idea when you're raising money for a startup, when you're trying to raise only $100,000. It's very hard, but when you're trying to raise $5 million, suddenly there's more people who want to write checks. It's the similar idea here. So again, it comes from entrepreneurship. This project is very much rooted in entrepreneurship.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This was a strategic decision so that we can attract big stars and big sponsors. And also it's a decision so that we can create more impact. And we're not saying that we're going to necessarily breach this goal by June 16th. We've only started fundraising four days ago. But this is our goal overall. And we all believe that it's possible with everybody's help.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Would say that not to be afraid to try for an idea that seems so crazy and undoable when you first start because you never know what you can do before you try it. And I think once I stopped being afraid and just really just went for it and I did not think about what's possible. Every day we determine with our priorities are and every day we just do everything we can on the way towards those priorities. And that's how everything was happening. I would give entrepreneurs this advice not to be afraid, not to decide in advance what the K cannot do. And also what's very important for us is that we have a purpose that is bigger than all of us, that we want to do something for the good of other people. And we're not really concerned with self-promotion or our egos or what our roles are. And I think it helps to have a very good morale on the team and everybody working in Unisone. And so we don't spend a lot of energy on.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“applied the entrepreneurial approach. So every time we had the problem, we took massive action and we saw what came back and then we re-evaluated it and move forward.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Started talking to the person who could give us Right on the Sun, and eventually they've agreed to participate, even though the Sunk never got recorded. But that is how we got our first artist. And for the rest, we got connected to somebody who was very active in the Ukrainian music scene. He provided us with a list of artists who are popular in Ukraine, as well as their contact info.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First, we got Ukrainian talent before we went to get international talent. And my co-founders Vetlana listens to Ukrainian music. I also don't listen just like you. So she started calling people that she personally liked first. And the way how she found their information initially was that she just Googled for the numbers of their management company. And she found it. So we started talking to some people, but nobody was really coming on board. The way how we got the first artist who was Nastek Kaminski was because she recorded a song I am Ukraine, which she performed at the United Nations concert and a few other charity events. And it had to refrain, which was really moving. And I thought that it will be so cool if she recorded it in English. So I translated the Ukrainian lyrics into first Russian because I don't speak Ukrainian and then into English. And so then I created a poem for the refrain. And so we needed rights to the sunk. And that's how we...”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I would say through my entrepreneurial hassling activities, I don't take no for an answer. So I found a way to negotiate. You know, if the first offer was a no, can we negotiate to something that will be yes once I knew who is the decision maker?”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think it took me several phone calls. Eventually, somebody responded and said that they're not going to help us, to which I responded, how about just give us access to this video? And that worked.”
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“The proceeds go directly to them. Then they will go through the allocation process for all the charities that go through the blue check and get verified so that we know that the money will be allocated in a responsible and transparent way. And all the charities who receive the money have the infrastructure to deliver what they promise to deliver”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did not know about blue check beforehand. It's a wonderful platform for us because as we're bringing the world together on a funding side and on an awareness side through the concert, Blue Check is bringing charities together on the execution side. So it seems such a perfect fit for what we're trying to do.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I went to Cornell and I'm very involved with the Cornell entrepreneurship. So we needed volunteers to do research on the media. So I wrote to the entrepreneurship list and I said, this is what I'm doing. I'm appealing to you for help. I'm an alarm. Can you volunteer, you know, five to ten hours of your time to help us do this? And one of the people who replied was a board member of the US-Ukraine Foundation who introduced us to the US-Ukraine Foundation and also became a light seer for the media project. Again, the response was also something just short of a magical because we got connected to them on, let's say, Wednesday on Thursday. We already had a call and on Friday we had a dedicated person and their staff who was helping us with all the music introductions and everything where we still had a gap on our team. So there have been an incredible, incredible supporter.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, I've built a very extensive global network over my entrepreneurship years. So I knew in my mind what I need to do. I'm used to launching businesses. I consult early stage startups. So I knew what we need to put in place. And I started giving calls to people. If I was looking just for somebody like a PR firm, I was asking for connections. And everybody just agreed, you know, I mean, I just had to make one phone call and people just got inspired by the idea and the jump on board. Even with the streaming company, we didn't really have connections to the streaming platform. I found somebody who was producing John Linen for a year tribute. He advised me of the streaming platform Mandolin. I called them on LinkedIn. And the next day we had a call and the day after our call they've agreed to support us. And this is the speed with which this project has been unfolding.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you want to help me? And she said, Well, I'm an epidemiologist. I don't really know how to put together global events. But if you tell me what to do, I will do it. And I told her, I don't know either, but I'm an entrepreneur and we're going to figure it out. That's what six weeks ago. And then fast forward to where we are now. We are a team of 100 volunteers and 10 plus countries. Our website is in eight languages. We have amazing artists who's committed to support us, both from Ukraine and US, Canada, and Sweden. And we've partnered with an amazing foundation that's the oldest foundation that's been supporting Ukraine and the US called the US-Ukraine Foundation. And they've recently created the program Blue Check.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That I wasn't really able to do anything and donating $100 or $200 didn't seem like enough. When I came back, I got an idea for this concert. The way how I got it is I watched somebody on Facebook, a musician, who was doing a live stream with a musician from a bomb shelter. And I thought, wow, how powerful. How about we do it bigger? How about we bring Ukrainian top artists and international top artists and athletes and celebrities and how about we create a movement that's going to unite everybody around the world to come together in support of Ukraine? And how about we empower different charities on the execution side to provide help with the funds that we raise? And that is how World Unite for Ukraine was born. And then I called my friend who I've known for 20 years all the way back from St. Petersburg, Russia, where we were both born and we met in the Jewish camp. And I asked her, Slitlana, I have this crazy idea.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. When the war started, I was skiing in the Alps with my son in Austria. And we were actually worried about staying in Europe because we didn't know what the war is going to do. After I said, I went back to Germany and got COVID. My son went back to the US and I remained in Germany, being able to read all the news. And it was a very sad time for me as somebody who's from Russia, but also has Ukrainian roots. My son is half Ukrainian. My grandmother is from Ukraine, from Odessa. My stepfather is from Liv. And my story is not unique. Many of our volunteers and many members of the Russian community have ties to both Russia and Ukraine. And that's why it's been so sad for us and so affecting for us what's been going on. So I got to a very, I would say, depressing state when I was reading all the news and I was getting feelings of helplessness and powerlessness and anger and frustration.”
2022-05-26 · Masters of Scale · Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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