Only $500 And Nine Months To Figure It Out | Natalie Kaminski EP 56

About this episode

Natalie Kaminski shares her journey from arriving in the U.S. with $500 to becoming a COO and founding JetRockets amidst global challenges.

Natalie Kaminski shares her story of arriving in the U.S. at 18 with just $500, hustling through tech jobs, and climbing her way from QA engineer to COO, before founding JetRockets and leading it through explosive growth and global relocation. Natalie talks about learning on someone else's dime, why embracing what you do best matters, the real impact of AI on tech agencies, and how she faced the ultimate test... moving her entire team out of Russia when war broke out.

People in this episode

Host: Wes Mathews

Guest: Natalie Kaminski

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• career growth
• AI impact
• tech industry
• global relocation
• personal story

Keywords

• entrepreneurship
• JetRockets
• AI
• career
• Russia
• tech jobs
• COO
• growth
• personal story

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: JetRockets

Places: U.S., Russia

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