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Olga Vidisheva was born in Kyrgyzstan and moved to the US to attend Wellesley College. Her story is the quintessential ‘American Dream’. Olga learned English while working in a Japanese restaurant (of all places!) and put herself through college by modeling. While she was at Harvard Business School Olga discovered her passion for boutiques and saw an opportunity to help small clothing stores develop a digital presence. Enter Shoptiques.com, a website that started with only 25 stores and now represents thousands of boutiques across the globe. Download this week’s episode to hear about Olga’s journey and what it was like to be accepted to Y Combinator as the first single non-technical founder.

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