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Hey everyone and welcome to how I built this resilience edition from NPR. I'm Guy Ross.

Each week, on Thursdays, we invite entrepreneurs and other business leaders to come onto the show live to talk about how they've been building resilience into their businesses this year.

And today, my conversation with Shanlin Ma, CEO and co-founder of Zola, Zola is a one-stop shop for couples planning a wedding, from creating a wedding website, finding local vendors, making a registry, to even creating a photo album of the big day.

With the wedding industry completely hammered by the pandemic last year, Zola focused on releasing new products and features for couples, like a home goods marketplace, and even hosting virtual weddings on its platform.

We aim to serve couples from that first day they get engaged through their entire wedding planning journey, and into their first years of newlywed life, with the tools and technology that we build to help them plan, dream, and then bring to life their fantasy wedding.

So basically, you go on the website and you can do everything, like from finding the person to do your flowers, to a venue, to the caterer, to the registry, to the invitations, everything.

Yes, you're a wedding website, you're a save the days, and then your album of your beautiful photos with the photographer that you found on Zola.

Yeah, I was checking out the website earlier today, it's super cool. How did it start? I know you started in 2013, and I think at the time you were working at Guilt, which is the Guilt group, G-I-L-T, not G-U-I-L-T.

Tell me how this idea came about.

Well, I had always dreamed about starting my own company one day, but I had never felt ready until really working for many years in product management, which is really working alongside designers and engineers to build digital websites and mobile apps.

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