Jessica, co-founder and CEO of Sola, shares her journey from MIT and hedge funds to raising $21M by age 22 from top Silicon Valley investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). In this interview, she opens up about: 1. The hardest lesson she learned at Y Combinator: “Stop overbuilding. Start selling.” 2. How she and her team built Sola, an AI platform automating mission-critical workflows for Fortune 100 companies. 3. Why resilience, risk-taking, and listening to customers became her founder superpowers. Watch to learn what it really takes to build a startup that earns the trust of some of the world’s biggest companies—while navigating the rollercoaster of being a 20-something founder. 00:00 Intro 00:57 What is Sola? 01:46 From Youngest Quant to Founder 05:44 The Oldest Inconvenience, The Biggest Opportunity 09:38 The Counterintuitive YC Playbook 10:24 Stop overbuilding, Start selling 12:03 Delivering Happiness 15:04 If You Can't Do It for 10 years, Don't Start EO stands for Entrepreneur& Opportunities. As we're looking to feature more inspiring stories of entrepreneurs all over the world, don't hesitate to contact us at partner@eoeoeo.net LinkedIn | @EO STUDIO X | @eostudi0
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