Rebeca Hwang: The power of diversity within yourself
ريبيكا هوانغ: قوة التنوع بداخلنا
Rebeca Hwang is co-founder and managing director of Rivet Ventures, investing in solutions for women and empowering their choices. Full bio
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for my mother to come back
had cancer surgery that day.
قد خضعت لعملية سرطان ذلك اليوم.
was to be buried back home in Korea."
دفنها في موطنها كوريا."
and when the shock wore off,
عندما أُرهبتُ من الصدمة،
to be buried back home.
to Argentina six years prior,
إلى الأرجنتين قبل ست سنوات،
or how we were going to make a living.
أو كيف سنكسب لقمة العيش.
who had lost everything,
الذين فقدنا كل شيء،
to rebuild our lives.
that after all these years,
to be buried someday,
في أين أريد أن أُدفن يوماً ما،
a lifelong quest for my identity.
في الحياة للبحث عن هويتي.
that I'm probably 80 percent cow by now;
وعلى الأرجح أصبحت الآن 80% بقرة.
I felt very much Argentinian,
شعرت بأنني أرجنتينية حقاً،
of middle school,
came into the room.
in Spanish already,
أتحدث الإسبانية بطلاقة،
either Korean or Argentinian,
أن أكون كورية أو أرجنتينية،
I decided to go to Korea,
قررتُ الذهاب إلى كوريا،
a place to call home.
سأعثر على مكان أدعوه الوطن.
with a Spanish accent?"
because of your big eyes
too Korean to be Argentinian,
أكثر من كوني أرجنتينية،
in the world to call home.
في العالم يسمى الوطن.
who speak with a Spanish accent --
يتحدث بلهجة إسبانية...
Argentinian accent --
that was rapidly changing,
obsolete overnight.
بالية بين عشية وضحاها.
for that 100 percent commonality
عن 100% من القواسم المشتركة
I was the only overlap
كنتُ أنا المتداخلة
usually in conflict with each other.
والذين في العادة توجد خلافات فيما بينهم.
of the different versions of myself --
to reinvent myself at times.
أنني كنتُ طالبة مجتهدة.
thick glasses, simple hairstyle --
نظارات عريضة وكانت تسريحة شعري بسيطة...
because I shared my homework.
لأنني كنت أشاركهم واجباتي.
a new identity for myself,
too much credit for that.
that my advisors joked
بحيثُ أن مرشدي قال ممازحاً
in "random studies."
في "الدراسات العشوائية."
a lot of different identities.
العديد من الهويات المختلفة.
entrepreneur, social innovator.
وريادية أعمال، ومبتكرة اجتماعية.
من المعارضة في بعض الأحيان.
didn't seem as interesting
ولم يكن يبدو أمراً ممتعاً
traditional Korean parents,
الكوريان التقليديان جداً،
from my PhD program.
من برنامج الدكتوراه الخاص بي.
generation to go to university,
الجيل الأول المرتاد للجامعة،
this was kind of a big deal.
this conversation was going to go.
a secret weapon with me,
the average income of all of the graduates
of all the dropouts
was definitely skewed
كان بكل تأكيد منحرف
is no longer to find my tribe.
لا يتعلق بالبحث عن قبيلتي.
permutations of myself
and five months old today,
with three nationalities
is actually from Denmark --
في الحقيقة من الدنمارك...
culture shocks in my life,
لصدمات ثقافية كافية في حياتي،
will be the first Vikings
سيكونون أول الفايكنغ
growing a beard when they become older.
في تربية لحاهم عندما يكبرون.
that their multiplicity
for them in their lives,
العديد من الأبواب في حياتهم،
to find commonality
إيجاد قواسم مشتركة
increasingly global today.
anxious and worried
irrelevant someday,
narrative and identity.
their unique combination
and cultures and skills
to alienate what looks different,
كأداة لإلغاء الاختلاف،
that they find tremendous joy
بأنهم سيجدون سعادة كبيرة
uncharted territories,
her last lesson to me.
هي آخر دروسها لي أيضًا.
about going back to Korea
متعلقًا إطلاقًا حول العودة إلى كوريا
تكون مدفونه بالقرب من ولدها،
she moved to Argentina.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rebeca Hwang - InvestorRebeca Hwang is co-founder and managing director of Rivet Ventures, investing in solutions for women and empowering their choices.
Why you should listen
Rebeca Hwang is co-founder and managing director of Rivet Ventures, which invests in companies in women-led markets where female usage, decision-making and purchasing are crucial to company growth. Hwang is also co-founder of the San Francisco-based startup YouNoodle, which connects top startups with opportunities for growth. She also co-founded Kalei Ventures, a venture fund focused in Latin American startups.
With a background in chemical and civil and environmental engineering from MIT and Stanford, Hwang's work has garnered three US patents, and she has 17 pending patent applications in her portfolio. She has been recognized as one of MIT Tech Review's "Top 35 Global Innovators under 35" and as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Hwang serves in the Board of the Global Entrepreneurship Network, which annually runs GEW in 170 countries and gathers 10 million participants. As the co-founder of Cleantech Open, she has helped more than 1,000 cleantech startups raise in excess of $1 billion in external funding. In addition, Hwang is a lecturer at Stanford University and teaches technology entrepreneurship.
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