I remember on launch day it was February of 2013 I was sitting at my desk we launched

mailbox we had a waiting list of almost a million people waiting for our app and I

there and then saw this what I now call the crossroads of should and must.

It was this moment where I could see my entire design career and the startup career. I'd worked on the Uber app.

I'm sure most people are familiar with Uber.

I and worked at all these amazing startups

and I'd done all this stuff that all had led me to this

amazing point of launching this product but I had no idea what any of that had to do

with my dream of painting in a white room. And I think that's really the gist of where I am in my journey and the story that I'm sharing

is that this crossroads of should and must arrives in all of our lives over and over again all the time in big and small ways.

And I mean like let's look at that day right?

Peak of a startup and also this kind of fledgling bizarre expression of wanting to paint.

Those worlds were both equally appealing, but they were totally different and standing

right there between those two paths I had to choose I couldn't

keep it up I couldn't do both and I looked at my finances I saw that I could

buy myself some time to give it a go and and I just I went in all in two feet into painting and

that's what's led me here to today I guess that was three years ago now.

I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative

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