“They told me to take the bus to my Harvard graduation because they were buying my sister a Bentley,” my father said like it was the most reasonable thing in the world—but three days later, when I walked across that stage and the dean said one more sentence into the microphone, I watched his program slip from his hands and realized some silences break louder than applause. - News

I hired two brilliant computer science students as part-time developers and a graduate student with marketing experience to help build our brand.

We worked out of a cramped room in the innovation center, often coding until the early hours of the morning.

There were moments when it all seemed impossible. Three months after we started, we discovered a critical flaw in our security protocol that required rewriting almost half of our code.

I did not sleep for four days straight as we worked to fix it. Then one of our developers quit unexpectedly, leaving us short-handed just before an important deadline.

Our bank account was dwindling fast, and we were still months away from having a marketable product.

During one particularly low point, I called Professor Wilson in tears.

“I think I have made a huge mistake,” I confessed. “We are going to run out of money before we even launch.”

“Every successful entrepreneur has moments like this,” she assured me. “The difference is whether you push through or give up. Which one are you going to do?”

Her words steeled my resolve.

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