Laura Behrens Wu: Into the Valley, at 22 | Shippo, Germany to Silicon Valley, CEO
The coming-of-age story involving 2 cities, 170 employees and 100M packages shipped
The Quest Pod with Justin Kan · Laura Behrens Wu, Justin Kan
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Show Notes
Born and raised in Germany, Laura Behrens Wu came to Silicon Valley at 22 to intern at a Y Combinator-backed startup. In just 4 years, she decided to 'figure out shipping' and built Shippo, an E-commerce software startup which raised more than $57 million in funding and now serves one-third of businesses exporting from the U.S.
I met Laura in 2017 and witnessed her incredible growth from a YC intern to a WTO speaker alongside Jack Ma. As the CEO of a 170-person company, she’s had big expectations to live up to. Her struggles as an entrepreneur remind me of the early days of Justin.tv, and her story breaking into the Valley as an outsider is a testament to all young founders worldwide hoping to make it big.
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