Start to scale. Startup and Scale-up Founder Stories.
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Start to scale. Startup and Scale-up Founder Stories.
Minite founder & CEO Micky Chen on “Student as a Service”, hiring Gen Z and dealing with investors.
Micky is on a mission to turn today's brightest students into tomorrow's workforce.
Her first successful venture was a Harry Potter platform she built and monetized at age 7. She worked at Salesforce and IBM prior to founding Minite together with her sister Linky, in 2020.
Their story has been featured across all major media, from Quote to RTLZ and has been on stage many, including MT/Sprout best performing SaaS companies, EU startup summit most promising Early stage Startup, and Most inspiring women in tech & innovation.
Next to Minite, Micky finds the time to provide guest lectures at Rotterdam School of Management.
In this episode, we'll cover the following topics:
- Finding the ideal student job;
- Saying no to investors;
- And… about TikTok
Links mentioned:
- People: Micky Chen, Linky Chen, Timo Groos, Zaakir Patel, Dave de Held, Marta Stachowiak-de Wit,
- Companies: Minite, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam , TikTok, SalesForce, ACE, Erasmus Enterprise, VU, Toptal,
- Media: Quote article
- Other: Eureka Week, Careers at Minite, BTS - Butter