Who you are defines how you build.

This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series.

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On this episode, we've Nicole Hu, co-founder and CTO of One Concern, a predictive artificial intelligence platform that aims to help communities prepare for and mitigate natural disasters. Here's Nicole.

Stanford's not just special to me because I'm an alumina here,

but also because we started one concern right here four years ago.

It was here where I met Tim and Ahmed, my co-founders,

where we eventually became friends.

And we became friends because we shared common values. If you've gone through our demographics

for the co-founders, we are very different. I'm an Asian woman, Ahmed's Muslim Indian,

and Tim's Caucasian from the military.

But, you know, we had fun at Stanford always talking about large problems and just really getting to know each other.

Now, one fine summer of 2014, Ahmed went back home to Kashmir.

And I'm not sure if you know about this, but Kashmir, India had one of the largest floods

that year, a flood which they hadn't seen in several decades.

We tried very frantically to reach out to him.

We would see the news talking about how many hundreds of people ended up losing their lives.

And we couldn't reach out.

We couldn't connect with him.

And it was very, very scary.

Ultimately, we did end up connecting with him to figure out that his family and him

were safe after the flood.

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