The Two Frogs That Falled To The Bucket Full Of Milk

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He was very drawn here. And he thought, it's going to be amazing. But i was actually so not into it, this area, the silicon valley. I can't live in a place like this. We're young. We don't have kids. What am i going to do there? He looked at me, he said, i think you should really, really just give it a chance for me.

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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