We wake up every day to challenge the unwritten rule that money equals opportunity. Instead, we believe that hard work and passion should be the only… - Amira Yahyaoui

I work super hard. For me, what's hard is not the time, money, or sacrifice, but how mentally draining it all can be. Starting a company, your brain is constantly obsessed with something and you feel like you’re constantly failing—every single day—but somehow, you find the drive to keep moving forward.

It is addicting. You have to think of yourself as a constant builder. As soon as you solve one problem, you can’t help but move on to the next, regardless of the obstacles in your way. You just can’t stop. It’s a compulsion, and the harder it is to move forward, the more consuming it all becomes. Weird, right? But giving up is never part of the equation. Otherwise, you may as well be working at Facebook.

Our community of students got hit hard by COVID-19. Many of our students are now back home, some are homeless, and a lot have parents who lost their jobs. So, we decided to shift the roadmap and have been working incredibly hard to support our students during this difficult period.