One of my personal missions as a founder is to lead by example — as an immigrant woman founder in a male-dominated fintech and venture-backed space, the associated challenges are worth it when I hear other women say they feel more confident taking risks after hearing my story.
As a key operating tenet since I founded Sequin, I haven’t let “pipeline issues” be an excuse to settle; rather they have been an impetus to try harder. Specifically, to try harder to build the reality that I want to live in — one where more women who look like me are in positions of power, and where more women feel empowered to achieve their financial goals.