>> My name is Shadia Sagala [phonetic].
I am Pomona Class 06, and I am a cofounder of a tech startup in San Francisco called Honeybug.
Honeybug is a tech startup based in San Francisco.
It was founded three years ago between myself and my three cofounders.
And today it is a thriving software company that services the event industry.
We are about 90 employees, and we are on the road to fast growth.
We essentially are trying to modernize the entire events industry.
So if you've ever planned an event you know that it takes, you know, between three
and thirty vendors to service that one event from the venue
to the planner, a caterer, DJ and so on.
Whether it's a corporate event, a wedding, a social event
and so on it's a big pain to plan this event.
So we help all of the professionals that are planning this event to come together,
collaborate so that the consumer has a lot more seamless experience.
I am the typical founder's founder.
I have basically worked in every, every possible role in the company.
I have built teams from scratch from the support team, the community team, the self team,
built it, you know really baked the DNA of the company in,
and then grown it to a certain point.
Then gone out, hired a better person smarter than myself hopefully, replaced myself
and then moved onto the next mission.
So today I'm actually helping to scale the company from about 100 to 200 and beyond
over the course of the next 18 months.
So that involves everything from infrastructure to people operations and everything else.