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FLIPPING OFF FAILURE
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
—J.K. ROWLING
“IF YOU HAVEN’T FAILED YET, you haven’t tried anything,” Reshma Saujani, forty, tells me matter-of-factly as we sit in a small, nondescript conference room in New York at the Girls Who Code office, where she is the founder and CEO. Reshma knows what it’s like to fail, and to fail publicly. In 2010, at thirty-three years old, Reshma ran in the Democratic primary in New York City, making headlines as the first Indian-American woman to run ...
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