Silvina Moschini, an Argentine-American tech entrepreneur, shares her inspiring career journey and the challenges she faced as a female entrepreneur. Topics include achieving a $1bn valuation for TransparentBusiness, pushing for gender and racial equality in the workplace, being an investor on Unicorn Hunters TV show, and establishing a new asset-backed cryptocurrency.
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Sylvina Moschini became the first Latin American woman to lead a company to unicorn status, highlighting the importance of resilience and creative thinking in entrepreneurship.
Sylvina discusses the challenges and opportunities she faced as a female entrepreneur, emphasizing the need to prove herself and find creative ways to secure funding.
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Sylvina Moscini's Journey to Entrepreneurship and Unicorn Status
Sylvina Moscini, an Argentinian-born entrepreneur, became the first Latin American woman to lead a company to unicorn status. She started her career in PR and marketing but eventually left corporate America to start her own ventures in tech, social media, and marketing. She founded She Works, an organization that aims to break down barriers faced by women in their careers. Sylvina discusses her drive as an entrepreneur, emphasizing her purpose and the desire to make a positive impact. She also shares the challenges she faced as a female entrepreneur, including gender biases and limited access to funding. Despite setbacks, Sylvina's innovative approach to fundraising led her company, transparent business, to achieve unicorn status. She highlights the importance of resilience and creative thinking in entrepreneurship.
Defying Gender Norms and Overcoming Challenges
Sylvina talks about how becoming a female entrepreneur in the 1990s went against gender norms in Argentina but didn't deter her from pursuing her dreams. She discusses the challenges and opportunities she encountered due to her gender, including the need to prove herself and find creative ways to secure funding. Sylvina emphasizes the importance of thinking outside the box and being resilient in the face of obstacles. She shares her experience of founding a remote workforce management company, transparent business, and how it was well-positioned to thrive during the shift to remote work caused by the pandemic.
Democratizing Investment and the Unicorn Hunters Show
Sylvina discusses her latest venture, the Unicorn Hunters show, which aims to democratize access to investment opportunities for the masses. She explains how the show selects entrepreneurs from around the world to pitch their business ideas to a panel of investors, including herself. The audience also has the opportunity to invest in these projects. Sylvina highlights the goal of inspiring and empowering entrepreneurs while facilitating connections with potential investors. She also introduces the unicorn cryptocurrency, backed by physical assets, including real estate, and explains how it aims to bridge the traditional financial system with blockchain technology.
The Argentinian-American tech entrepreneur moved to the US in 1997 and carved out a career in the corporate world before breaking free and setting out on her own.
In late 2020, the remote working company TransparentBusiness, which she co-founded 12 years earlier, achieved a $1bn valuation.
Now she continues to push for gender and racial equality in the workplace, is an investor on the TV show Unicorn Hunters, and has also established a new asset-backed cryptocurrency.
She explains her journey, the setbacks she’s faced along the way and opens up about what keeps her motivated.
Presenter/producer: Sam Clack
(Image: Silvina Moschini. Credit: Dasha Horita)
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