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Rana el Kaliouby, Founder of Affectiva, Deputy CEO of Smart Eye, and Emotion AI Pioneer

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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Is There a Cultural Tension Between What I Really Wanted to Do and What I Was Passionate About?

I feel very blessed and lucky in that my parents, you know, were with three daughters. And I can almost like draw a straight line from their investment to where I am today. We traveled a lot of kids. They invested in our learning. So we were very exposed to kind of Western way of teaching and thinking. But at the same time, after undergrad, I got married very young. I was 19. When I then decided to go abroad to Cambridge University to get my PhD, both my parents and my in-laws basically said, you're married. Now we got us, you know,. stick with your husband and you can't just leave and,you know, go pursue

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