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WSJ Secrets of Wealthy Women

Therese Tucker: Starting A Software Company at 40

WSJ Secrets of Wealthy Women

The Wall Street Journal

Careers, Business

4.6955 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Therese Tucker, founder and chief executive of software company BlackLine Inc., explains to WSJ's Veronica Dagher how her gender shaped her career and why she chose to start a technology company.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We've all felt left out and for people who moved to this country that feeling lasts more than a moment.

0:07.0

We can change that.

0:09.0

Learn how it belonging begins with us.org.

0:12.0

Brought to you by the Ad Council.

0:15.0

I'm Terese Tucker, I'm the CEO and founder of Blackline.

0:25.0

Blackline is a software as a service company that helps other companies

0:30.0

streamline and automate their accounting operations.

0:34.0

To admit that you failed and give up and walk away is,

0:38.0

you know, you don't do that.

0:40.0

You just continue to keep working at it until you see some success.

0:45.0

This is Secrets of Wealthy Women from the Wall Street Journal, helping women

0:51.0

empower themselves financially.

0:53.0

Now, Veronica Dagger.

0:55.0

Terese Tucker talks about how one college course changed her life,

1:00.0

the financial stresses of being an entrepreneur and her strategies for founders over 40.

1:07.0

So, Terese, you have said before that you were raised without gender bias.

1:11.0

What did you mean by that? Well, you know, I was raised on a farm in

1:15.3

Illinois and I was the youngest of four girls and anybody who's ever familiar with that world knows that farm work has a lot of manual labor, all right?

1:28.0

And my dad did not have sons to do manual labor.

1:34.0

And so therefore his daughters were never ever ever

1:38.0

told that they couldn't do something

1:40.0

because they were a girl.

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