WaitWhat C.E.O. Jeff Berman interviews Angela about “grit-scaling” and her unlikely path to academic celebrity.
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Angela was recently a guest on the podcast Masters of Scale, a show that features stories and advice from some of the world's most iconic business leaders.
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I was a science major.
I thought it would be, you know, really cool to teach kids how to, like, learn about solar energy by making, like, a hot dog cooker out of, like, tin foil and cardboard.
I go around to the school's classrooms, and I'm knocking one by one on the doors of, I think it was like, fifth or 6th grade classroom.
And I went into one classroom.
I remember the teacher's name, Mister Z.
And he lets me do my little three minute commercial at the front of the classroom.
And one little boy puts up his hand and is asking questions about it.
You know, he's sort of leaning forward in his seat.
He's got a big smile on his face.
And Mister Z interrupts him, and he says, oh, not you.
This is not for you.
This is for the smart kids.
And I nearly took a baseball bat to that man.