Hello, hello everyone! I know I'm speaking, but Annie and Katrina need to be made speakers. I'm wondering Ashley if you can help us with that.
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Yay! We got Katrina! How are you Katrina? Hello? Can you hear me? I can hear you. Oh! Okay cool! Sorry! My um... My app thing is being weird. It's telling me I'm still a listener, but... Oh!
It's kind of glitching on me right I'm gonna exit and then come back. That's okay. Yeah, of course that's okay. All right. We're gonna wait for Katrina to come back. We're gonna make Annie and Alina speakers. Hopefully hopefully it works for the two of you. Yay! Annie's a speaker. Hey Annie!
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There's nothing quite like your own bed after like 10 days in a different city with 17,000 people you've never met before. I know, I know right? I love coming home to my own bed. It's just like such an underrated feeling I think.
Yeah, it's home. Nothing like home. Where's everybody from? Or based? Well, I'm based in Toronto.
Oh, Jan, I didn't know. I think I might have forgotten that. Alina is also in Toronto, who I think should be made a speaker. She's here. Yeah, we are making her a speaker. Things are just moving a little slowly. Hi guys, I keep sending the request. So, oh, the
We can get it fixed here shortly, but we are working on it. We're working on making Alina speaker. I think I'll just start by introducing everyone and hopefully by the time we get to Alina, she accepts the request to come up and speak on stage with us. I'm Jensen S. E. I'm the marketing work stream lead at Decent Dow in
and we're super excited to be launching real decent talks in partnership with F3 today. So this is a series of discussions. We're going to have every Wednesday for the month of March. We're starting it today on International Women's Day and we are really aiming to highlight founders and founders
We want to have real raw conversations that unpack every aspect of being a founder. I think we often hear about the successes, but there's a lot that happens on the way to success and these discussions are meant to really highlight those.
the opportunities, the challenges, the failures, the good times and the bad times. I think the more we speak about all of those, the more we can prepare people for what's ahead. I'm going to go ahead and introduce any next, any, why don't you let us know?
about F3. What F3 is and how our listeners can get involved. No thank you for starting with me. I feel so honored. For everyone here my name is Annie Park. I'm one of the co-founders and funders at F3 Ventures.
F3 started as a community last year. I think in March, I have a funny story I want to share about that maybe a little bit later on, but the whole idea was really to empower more women to learn about the space and
So we decided to host our first conference in Vancouver where Katrina was one of really such a champion and advocate of that in the city that I was so fresh to. Yeah, and so festival was the experience that we
put together last year for welcoming 1,000 women into the space. And at the core of the experience, we really wanted to just fund more women because with funding comes opportunities, comes, yeah, comes like the power to