#3: Tehsheena Shams on building billion-dollar business ideas and defying gender bias
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In our third podcast, David Rae talks to Dynamo founder Tehsheena Shams. We follow Tehsheena's journey from being one of only a few girls in engineering school in a small town in Pakistan to building a billion-dollar business idea during a global pandemic.
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#3: Tehsheena Shams on building billion-dollar business ideas and defying gender bias
In our third podcast, David Rae talks to Dynamo founder Tehsheena Shams. We follow Tehsheena's journey from being one of only a few girls in engineering school in a small town in Pakistan to building a billion-dollar business idea during a global pandemic.