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Podcast: Business Is Boring
Episode: Think start-ups are only run by single guys and their friends? Meet Dr Alyona Medelyan
Description: Y Combinator is one of the great names in tech and start-ups. The incubator slash business bootcamp is famously hard to get into and famously hard full stop! Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe are some of the alumni and they only accept companies that have billion dollar potential. It’s also, like much of Silicon Valley, disproportionately made up of young, male, Stanford Grad founders, with not a lot of people accepted from outside the US, let alone from little old NZ.But Dr Alyona Medelyan, CEO of Thematic, managed to break a lot of those preconceptions. She ha...