Your Husband's Dream of Starting a Business

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We te o bok e say. It's made up, because a made up word, yes. So we said, ok, in wean four, 35 buen, and we got it. We were using it with 20 parents from our kid school that were the first users who provided feedback about it. And when we did it, we worked in the morning, came home spent time with the kids, put them to bed, and then our second shift started at night when the kids were sleeping. But i'm assuming once you got to that head space whare you're like, im going to work during the day, and then i'm going to work at night on this thing

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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