What's the Deal With Financial Planning?

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Andi: I started the entrance ship half way through school. And my boss, phil, had a branch of commonwealth financials. He was getting close to 70 at this point. So i wanted to learn and grow. When i saw something that made like, what? How can you do it like this? You know, this is so old school, i would say it. Did it annoy him, or did he like that? Like that? The fact that i came and challenged. Everything was something new and compelling to him.

When Adi Tartako and her husband started the home design and renovation website Houzz in 2009, they had no expectation that it would grow into a global business. In fact, Adi was a hesitant entrepreneur, preferring to foster Houzz as a lifestyle business and pushing back when experts told her it could grow into something much bigger. But as Houzz morphed into a go-to site for users to get ideas for home improvement and connect with industry professionals, Adi decided to go all-in. She walked away from a promising career in finance to become the CEO of Houzz, helping lead it to a platform that now has 65 million users worldwide.

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