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The exit is a 30 minute podcast featuring awesome entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it.

The exit talks to operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes. You learn how they did it.

Why they did it and get exposure to the world of exits. It's a world occupied by a small few but accessible to many on this episode of the exit.

I sit down with Helen Gillm. She is an awesome entrepreneur and currently the CEO and founder of wild AI.

We talk about what it means to be an athlete and how that translates into leadership.

We talk about fundraising. She recently closed around for 2.5 million for her startup. We talked about leadership and everything around being prepared.

One of the coolest parts about the series that we have here at the exit is empowering women by talking to awesome operators that are women.

Helen is a great job of walking through her journey all the way from being a consultant, pitching all different clients trying to really just absolutely crush the consulting game to starting her own tech startup in AI and how all the different trends and flow.

This is a really wide ranging conversation with Helen and part of my goal here is to really unpack for people listening to this episode.

What it means to truly inspire women entrepreneurs out there and to drive innovation with AI at the same exact time.

All of the information that Helen is going to be sharing is everything from entrepreneurship all the way through fundraising as a woman entrepreneur.

So without further ado, sit back and relax and listen to our wide ranging conversation here on the exit with Helen, the current CEO and founder of wild AI.

Alright, I am here with Helen Gill and she is the founder and CEO of wild AI. How's it going Helen?

I'm very good. Thanks for having me Steve. Yeah, I'm excited to really unpack your story and everything. But before we get into that, let's talk about your background. What got you into business and entrepreneurship?

So I studied mathematics and financial risk. I was a quant in a hatch fund and a management consultant in AI. That's how I started my career and I was there.

A lot of people say they're always being entrepreneurial. I don't think that was the case for me. I did have a boss when I was a hatch fund who was young had built his own company and I thought like if he can do it, I can do it too.

So that was really it's tiring for me. But yeah, when I started working, I think I was quite arrogant. I wanted to do things that I was not asked to do.

Like, for instance, when I was a consultant, I wanted to pitch and get new clients, but then I would probably not do my groundwork. And so my employers were not extremely impressed by me to say the list.

And so and I was trying to find some other stuff. So I looked at many different small like city ideas, but on the way and then eventually I'm also an athlete.

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