Entrepreneurship can begin at home - Gracey C. Wilson

Experts in their Fields - The EITF project by Nandini Venkatraman, Karthik Subramanian and Charu Venkat

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Hi everyone, this is episode 5 on season 2 of the EITF project, and for this episode, we have a very interesting guest. Charu and I talk to Gracey Wilson from Microsoft in this episode. Why Gracey? Well, I was in the audience, when Gracey gave a speech at the women in tech conference at Boston, and it got me thinking. She had some very interesting things to say. But before we get into that, Charu and I will now introduce her.

Gracey started her career, in a very unconventional way. She started a company right off the bat, called Critter sitters, a pet sitting company which showed increasing revenue with 30 consecutive months! What a fun way to start a career!

Gracey says in the interview that the next phase of her career, which included a lot of internships in companies like GE, Pinch, women without borders, and eventually Microsoft w ... 

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