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How a Rejected Internship Application Built a 25M Career Coaching Platform
When Vivian Chen was a senior at UCLA, she applied for 47 internships and got 47 rejections. Instead of giving up, she started a blog documenting her job search failures — and accidentally built an audience of 300,000 monthly readers. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack how that blog became Pathwise, a career coaching platform that now serves 50,000 paying subscribers and generates $25 million in annual revenue. They walk through Vivian's turning point: the moment a recruiter forwarded her 'rejection diary' to an HR director, leading to a job offer and a business idea. The…
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