Lucie Brešová
CFO
Story of Pioneers
”We do something that helps people”, Lucie Brešová, CFO at Skypicker.com, is convinced. This is a website that allows people to find and book the cheapest flights. In her opinion this position is “for someone with soft skills, someone who is organised and who knows how to get things done.”
Exciting Stories
Gil Penchina
Angel Investor
“I would probably tell myself not to worry that much about grades, because it turned out that they didn’t matter.” If Gil Penchina had a time machine, this would be one piece of advice he would tell his 14-year old self. What matters a lot more is to meet and talk to people which is now the coolest thing about his job as an Angel Investor at AngelList: “I get to meet really interesting people and I learn a ton from listening to their ideas.”
Tim Chang
Managing Director
“Never settle for playing by other people’s rules. Build your own products, make your own rules, create your own game.” Tim Chang, Managing Director of Mayfield, is convinced that everybody can start his or her own company. The challenging but also very cool thing about his job is, “that you can’t ever get stuck in old ways of thinking. You have to constantly be disrupting, even yourself and your ways of thinking.”
Vishal Sharma
CEO, Entrepreneur, Product Manager
“When there are certain aspects of your product that become complete, so that you can play with them yourself and you can enjoy them yourself”, that is the coolest thing about Vishal Sharma’s job as CEO and Product Manager. The challenging part of his job as an entrepreneur is to prioritize: “It’s very easy to want to do more and more and more things all the time.”
