Yeah. Thank you for having me here. It's, uh it's excited. Chat with you and to produce this for your students. Um, terms of my story. And so, like what I did to get where I am. So I'm originally from From Spain and I was born in the US but grew up in Spain and then went to college in the U. K. So do we know what I was going to do after college? That was like, my my situation. And I graduated in 2016 and then had a few different options. I could have gone toe Spain back home. I could like state in the u. K. Or I could come to the US give my dual citizenship, which definitely was a big factor there. And, like a lot of recent grads, wasn't too sure what I wanted to do. I was, uh, combined. So, like honors major. So I did Nikon and education. So I'd always be interested by a lot of different things. I knew what to do, something that would allow me to have a big impact on people and helping out, but also being surrounded by recounted individual because I wanted to learn a lot. That's like my my mindset When I graduated, so moved to to New York wasn't too sure once again and thought that going into pretty like people facing role would be what I wanted to do, given that I'd liked interacting with people. So entered the recruiting space, a ZA recruiter basically working on different technical roles and a couple of months into that realized that that was not the ideal role for me. So I guess that was maybe one of the incidents that shaped my career in the sense that it got me thinking about what I really cared about and if it was a like financial gains, if it was like having an impact on people, what it waas that's when I realized that making a difference in other people's lives and also growing professionally. And we're like two of my key priorities versus, for example, amassing a lot of financial wealth, which at the time, or even now it's not a major priority. So after so, like realizing that I ended up moving into ripple mats, which was, uh, really early stage back then, it was like five people. When I joined way We're figuring out a ton of different questions and definitely one of the best decisions that I've made in my personal, even like professional life. Just given that again, you need an opportunity, actually have a big impact on people. Built the company from the ground up off. He's worked out so far in your career for you.

so in terms of responsibilities and decisions that I need a hand on a daily basis. So basically, the way ripple networks to give more context to the students. So we basically help match students full time jobs or internships, a great companies. And the way we do it is we just make the process significantly easier and more efficient. Um, so my responsibility is basically overseeing everything on the candidate side. So that involves getting new students on the platform and also making sure that our students, basically our users are getting a great experience. So anything related toe candidate side. So the students is like what I oversee. So some of the decisions that we need to make, for example, are what new campuses are we gonna be expanding to, What type of role? So we wanna be getting on the platform? Um, sort of like what different acquisition strategies we're gonna be using to get those students also platform these. They're so like questions that come up in terms of my work hours. Um, it can vary a lot. I mean, we they're weeks where will maybe be closer down 50 there. Weeks will be like closer to make, like, 60 even more. It really depends. I mean, I think with my current set up, what's important to understand is that given that it is a start up and it is so like a fast growing company, there is always a lot to do. So it doesn't mean that you probably in the working more than in other, for example, work environments, but you also get to have a bigger impact than in a work environment.so we have a lot of different strategies to get new students on the platform. We have a big intern program that we basically we basically work with students on campus, give them access to, um, more opportunities. So they basically were further friends. And until we get connected with new students and say someone's network, we have, um, different partnerships, for example, with different clubs on campus, They like society, women, engineers, and we get the remember signing up on our platform. We have a lot of ward of math. It's a lot of organic traffic is, well, eso There's some of the main ways that we basically build a community on campus or even now, virtually on get your students on the problem.

so I'd say the main challenges are I feel like the main challenge is there's a lot to do and not enough time to do everything. So given that we're building and testing out a lot of new things pretty much daily, it's not like there's a step path of like, Here's exactly what we need to do to get to our goal. It's more so like figuring it out as we go. So one of the big challenges, like knowing where it's actually spend your time and resource is because there are a lot of different options that you could choose from on the way we we approached. That challenge is basically by being very data driven and understanding, sort of like what the output is gonna be with the input that we play. So say we have, like, five different ways were so we want to acquire new students and they're like five different strategies that we wanna touch that. So, looking into each strategy and figuring out okay, what should be say the our life for each getting a good sort of like, um, understanding there. And then from there we could choose, for example, one that we that is more likely to yield better results with the same amount of it. But so that's That's one of the strategies and the way we saw that is just being very data driven. Also, communicating a lot within the team and making sure that we're not making anything wasn't making any any any decision.