I still remember the first time I got paid to teach someone something. It was 2005 and I had scored reasonably well on the math SAT II and someone had recommended their friend’s child to me. I can’t take all the credit, but I’m pretty sure that kid ended up going to an Ivy League. This is most likely because he grew up in Manhattan and went to Collegiate, but I like to take credit and think I provided the sliver of help he needed to get over the finish line.

Since then, I’ve done a lot of teaching. There was even a point where I really wanted to become a teacher. So much so that I applied to be a high school chemistry teacher at the American School of Milan and actually got the job. How life would be different if I had taken that role in 2009 instead of moving to Tokyo for Goldman Sachs just a few months later.

Anyways, fast forward many years, in 2021, one of my former colleagues and I decided to start a class - a digital literacy course for female founders. And it’s something that we’re both very proud of. 12 hours of course material broken up over multiple weekends, sessions running throughout 2021 and 2022, and 50+ female founders all tuning in during their free time. Some have even gone off to raise successful pre-seed and seed rounds. Not sure how much our class contributed, but as is in my nature, I’ll take the credit.

While we’re no longer teaching this class live - a toddler and a much worse work-life-balance will do that - we thought the slides could be useful for all the remaining entrepreneurial hopefuls out there.