Rebeca Hwang: The power of diversity within yourself
Rebeka Hvang (Rebeca Hwang): Snaga sopstvene raznolikosti
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
smo čekali majku da se vrati
had cancer surgery that day.
operisala tumor tog dana.
was to be buried back home in Korea."
sahranimo kod kuće u Koreji.”
and when the shock wore off,
i kada je prvi šok prošao,
to be buried back home.
da je sahranimo kod kuće.
to Argentina six years prior,
šest godina pre toga,
or how we were going to make a living.
ili ideje kako da zaradimo za život.
who had lost everything,
koji su izgubili sve,
to rebuild our lives.
kako bismo ponovo izgradili živote.
that after all these years,
da je nakon svih tih godina
to be buried someday,
gde bih ja volela da me sahrane,
a lifelong quest for my identity.
potragu za mojim identitetom.
that I'm probably 80 percent cow by now;
verovatno 80% krava;
I felt very much Argentinian,
kao Argentinka
of middle school,
u osnovnoj školi
came into the room.
in Spanish already,
dobro da govorim španski,
either Korean or Argentinian,
ili Korejka ili Argentinka,
svog starog identiteta
ili zaslužim novi.
I decided to go to Korea,
da odem u Koreju,
a place to call home.
koje mogu da nazovem domom.
with a Spanish accent?"
akcentom?”
because of your big eyes
jer imaš te krupne oči
too Korean to be Argentinian,
previše Korejka da bih bila Argentinka,
da bih bila Korejka.
in the world to call home.
koje mogu da nazovem domom.
who speak with a Spanish accent --
akcentom koji liče na Japance -
Argentinian accent --
that was rapidly changing,
koji se brzo menja
obsolete overnight.
for that 100 percent commonality
tu kompletnu istovetnost
I was the only overlap
da se često jedino ja preklapam
usually in conflict with each other.
u sukobu jedni sa drugima.
of the different versions of myself --
sve različite verzije sebe -
to reinvent myself at times.
„prepravim samu sebe”.
thick glasses, simple hairstyle --
jednostavna frizura -
because I shared my homework.
samo zato što sam im davala svoj domaći.
a new identity for myself,
too much credit for that.
previše zasluga za to.
that my advisors joked
da su se moji mentori šalili
in "random studies."
„nasumične studije”.
a lot of different identities.
mnogo različitih identiteta.
entrepreneur, social innovator.
preduzetnik, društveni inovator.
nazivali „rebekanski”.
može biti veoma naporno.
didn't seem as interesting
nije bilo tako zanimljivo
traditional Korean parents,
roditelje vrlo tradicionalnog morala
from my PhD program.
generation to go to university,
generacija koja je studirala,
this was kind of a big deal.
to bilo prilično bitno.
this conversation was going to go.
kako se razgovor odvijao.
a secret weapon with me,
the average income of all of the graduates
prosečnih primanja svih diplomaca
of all the dropouts
svih studenata koji su napustili studije
was definitely skewed
ovaj grafik su osnivači „Google”-a
prati svoju strast.”
is no longer to find my tribe.
više nije da pronađem svoje pleme.
permutations of myself
and five months old today,
3 godine i 5 meseci,
with three nationalities
sa 3 različite nacionalnosti
is actually from Denmark --
da je moj muž zapravo iz Danske -
culture shocks in my life,
šokova u mom životu,
will be the first Vikings
biti prvi Vikinzi
growing a beard when they become older.
da puste bradu kada odrastu.
that their multiplicity
da će im njihova raznovrsnost
for them in their lives,
to find commonality
da pronađu zajednički jezik
increasingly global today.
anxious and worried
anksioznosti i zabrinutosti
irrelevant someday,
postati nebitan jednog dana,
narrative and identity.
nasleđem i identitetom.
their unique combination
ovu jedinstvenu kombinaciju
and cultures and skills
to alienate what looks different,
otuđenja svega različitog,
that they find tremendous joy
da će pronaći neizmernu radost
uncharted territories,
her last lesson to me.
njena poslednja lekcija meni.
about going back to Korea
o povratku u Koreju
she moved to Argentina.
pre njenog dolaska u Argentinu.
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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