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"I'm setting boundaries from all the negative stuff as I don't want to see anything but positive stuff. I want to focus my time and not just scrolling on Twitter."- @NextOnStageOne
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Rags to riches? Yes.

A short 🧵 on @JQT_web3vc's story of becoming a millionaire by age 25 or 26.

After the Fall of Saigon, Jenny Q. Ta’s mother wanted to escape. She exchanged her only valuable possession, her wedding ring, for 3 spots on a boat of 30.

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In distress, the boat was rescued by a cargo ship.
Ta lived a few years in Hong Kong before she immigrated with her mother & brother to live w/ an uncle in California’s Central Valley.

“We were on welfare. I had second-hand clothes,” Ta says.

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By 20, Ta finished college w/ a Bachelor's degree in information systems.

She landed a job as an account clerk at a big brokerage firm in San Francisco.

“I fell in love with the building. When you walk into the lobby, you feel rich.”

She made $10 an hour.

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Susan S. Richardson, new CEO of D.C.-based Center for Public Integrity, has spent most of her career covering local news, poverty, & communities of color. “It's important nationally to learn from local communities (how) to build bridges...” My #WomentoFollow thread (12th ed). /1
Statehouse coverage in the nation “has pretty much been decimated,” says Richardson, speaking of the huge job losses in newspapers. @Publicl, the 30-year-old investigative journalism nonprofit, has focused on national politics but has expanded coverage in other areas. /2
Another priority for Richardson? Diversity in hiring. “Editors often say, ‘we can’t find women or people of color.’ As long as I’ve been in journalism, we have not hit the mark. A lot of this is about doing and not talking.” /3
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