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What happens when a 24-year-old former Division I basketball player walks away from a corporate engineering path and bets on herself? She builds a global cybersecurity education company with 50+ interns, a custom-built operating system, and a management philosophy that lets roles grow around people.
Adaora joins Jake Gump to talk about remote team structure, time zone challenges, leadership lessons learned the hard way, and why she believes the biggest firewall is the human brain.
This episode explores:
- Why she left Apple's engineering track to start her own company
- How she managed 50+ global interns with no systems in place
- The delegation failures — and fixes — that shaped her leadership
- Building a cybersecurity education platform targeting teens and older adults
- Why human behavior is the real vulnerability in any system
For founders, operators, and anyone building distributed teams who wants a real, unfiltered look at what early-stage remote leadership actually looks like.
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