How To Be A Latina Tech Startup Founder | Tanya Menendez, Snowball Wealth
Yo Quiero Dinero
Jannese Torres
4.9 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 97, Tanya shares her experience as a Latina founder, including what she had to learn, how she transitioned from a 9 to 5, and her advice to aspiring Latina founders.
Tanya Menendez is the Co-Founder and CEO of Snowball Wealth, a platform that provides personalized guidance to pay off debt and build wealth. Snowball’s first product, a free student loan plan, helped users save $6K on average. Before Snowball, Tanya co-founded Maker’s Row, the largest online marketplace for American manufacturing. Before becoming an entrepreneur, she worked at Goldman Sachs and Google. Tanya has been included in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List and named one of People en Español’s Most Powerful Latinas.
You can contact Tanya on LinkedIn & Twitter. Learn more about Snowball Wealth at https://www.snowballwealth.com/
Episode Highlights:
- Making the transition from 9 to 5 to entrepreneurship
- The ins and outs of launching a business and securing capital
- What she’s had to learn as a female business founder
- The tool she’s creating to help you save on your student loan
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We love this episode with Tanya because she provides a glimpse into the ups-and-downs of starting a business. Building a business can absolutely be a rewarding experience; and it can also be one of the most difficult, trying things you can do. Listen to hear Tanya’s experience around starting a business as a Latina founder!
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| 0:00.0 | I think I was like 25 and I had like 30 employees and some of them were a decade older than me. And they would say things like, oh gosh, one comment that sticks out of my mind is like there was an executive that we had hired. And at the end of the meeting, he pats me on my head and says, good job, kiddo. So I was like, hey, can I talk to you? So I took him aside and I said, hey, don't ever call me that ever again. that it's completely unacceptable to me. |
| 0:02.0 | And he was like, oh, don't ever call me that ever again. That it's |
| 0:21.7 | completely unacceptable to me. And he was like, oh, and then he tried to justify everything. Oh, I meant |
| 0:25.9 | it as like a term of endearment. I was like, well, would you say that to my male co-founder? |
| 0:32.6 | You're listening to Yo Quiero Dinoero, a personal finance podcast for the modern Latina. I'm your host, |
| 0:39.2 | Janice Torres, award-winning Latina personal finance expert. I didn't always have my financial |
| 0:44.7 | shit together, but when I started looking for POC-friendly personal finance podcasts, I couldn't find any. |
| 0:50.8 | And so Yo Chiro Dineiro was born. On this show, I'll show you how to make |
| 0:54.4 | Dineiro, how to keep your Dino, and most importantly, how to make it grow. Each week, I'm |
| 0:59.8 | connecting you with the most brilliant minds in the world of money and business. So you can learn |
| 1:04.3 | about investing, entrepreneurship, and building wealth. The best part, I'm dishing up all this |
| 1:09.8 | knowledge with a sassy side of sason. So if you're |
| 1:13.1 | ready to be Poderosa with your Dinero, you've come to the right place. Let's dive in. |
| 1:21.0 | Hello, my gente. Welcome back to another episode of Yo Quiero Dinerro the podcast. This is your |
| 1:26.2 | host, Janice, and you're listening to Episode 97, How to Be a Latina Tech |
| 1:30.9 | Startup Founder. |
| 1:32.4 | On today's episode, we're going to be joined by Tanya Menendez, co-founder and CEO of Snowball |
| 1:37.8 | Wealth, a platform that provides personalized guidance to pay off debt and build wealth. |
| 1:42.9 | Snowball's first product, a free student loan plan, |
| 1:45.7 | helped users save on average $6,000. Before Snowball, Tanya co-founded Makers Row, the largest online |
| 1:53.5 | marketplace for American manufacturing. Before becoming an entrepreneur, she worked at Goldman Sachs |
| 1:59.0 | and Google. Tanya has been included in Forbes 30 under 30 |
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