What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal. My personal diary made public for the world.

I'm Alex, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew, and today I'm doing a true journal entry.

I gave myself a simple prompt. What went well, what didn't go well, and what are you thinking about?

Right before this recording, I wrote down a few bullets, but other than that, this journal entry is being created as I speak it to amazing founder, Saudrié. She has an incredible story. In high school, she came over to the US by herself on scholarship.

She came from Turkey. She has no family, no friends, nothing here when she came.

And first of all, I just want to say I give so much credit to immigrants of this

country. It takes a ton of courage and risk. to that you want in the US. Today, Sadrié is a bootstrap founder running community and

Ops for Blind Look, which is an incredible mission-driven business that makes content and

other digital experiences accessible for the 285 million blind people on planet Earth.

Her brand has worked with Toyota, Google, and McDonald's,

and ultimately they plan to make technology accessible for many marginalized communities, not just the blind, including those who are deaf, as well as the elderly.

There is one last thing I want to mention about Sadrié. She is blind herself herself and I include this last detail for an important reason.

The fact that Sadrier is blind makes her story of immigration and

entrepreneurship even more impressive given we live in a world that

objectively is harder and less accessible for the visually impaired.

But I included this fact last because I know that Sadrié doesn't want to be treated differently.

I didn't treat her differently when we spoke on the phone.

She wants to be treated like any other founder being judged on the merit of her work,

not on the differences in her site.

So that was probably the highlight of my week

was my conversation with Sadrier.

A few days later, after the call is Sadrier,

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