For our first-ever Envision Founder Series, we will be interviewing our alumni to share their stories as a founder and hear what they’ve been up to since Envision. Meet Lilly Chen. Lilly is the co-founder and CEO of Contenda (EC3), a unified content repository to help businesses repurpose and resurface…

Summer 2019 — the beginning My journey to Microsoft started in the summer of 2019, when I took a leap of faith and said yes to the Girls Make Games fellowship, living in Seattle to teach game development at an Xbox camp. What I didn’t know, that this summer is what made me want to…

A storyteller. — Was the common question that I was asked when I was little. Being young with a wild imagination, my mind was buzzing with ideas. Maybe I could be a police officer, a lawyer, open my own poutine shop, or start my own business. Out of all these vivid ideas I…

A reflection on the pandemic, the Cansbridge fellowship, and my summer internship I ended my Fall 2020 term with tears in my eyes. I couldn’t wait to move back home and sleep + watch the Hunger Games for the rest of the winter break. The pandemic turned life into a sprint, and I didn’t realize it until I was completely burnt out. …

A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog post about my journey with Notion and how I organize my life. You can see the article here. The way I use Notion completely changed when beginning an online term for university this past summer. As most university and high school…

After years of watching Thomas Frank’s College Info Geek videos and obsessing over To-Do lists, I could never find a workflow that worked best for me. One Note was great for school, but not really to manage my ideas, projects, or action items. …

For engineering, comp sci + business programs — Hey everyone! As someone currently done with the university application process, I wanted to share some insights on some main things I learned with advice on what you could do. I remember reading blog posts like these during admissions season so thought this would be helpful! First, I’ll be breaking…

And that’s okay. Following all the success and craziness from myCryptoHippo everyone kept asking me: “What are you going to do next? What project are you working on? Are you continuing your company? Are you building a new one?” It was overwhelming, to say the least. I felt the constant pressure to keep…

Role: Chief Product Officer Time: October 2017 — August 2018 Skills: Product Management, start-up/entrepreneurship, financial technology, competitive analysis, product design, software architecture Company: myCryptoHippo Result: 1000+ users, 420% company ROI, international pitching from South Africa to Atlanta, over $100,000 in awards. Website is not online anymore, but you can view…