How to talk to strangers: Overcoming mental models | Anna Nguyenova | TEDxUNYP

Anna presents her ideas and provides tips on overcoming mental models when talking to strangers.

Anna Nguyenova has built startups as a founder, an early-stage employee, and an executive. She holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and has launched startups in London, Los Angeles, and Vietnam. She speaks on everything related to startup growth and occasionally writes for American Forbes. Her international business experience has also led her to publish a memoir in Czech called Outsider.
Anna is an entrepreneur, actress, and a startup advisor. Her expertise is in early stage startup scaling and operations. She has built two startups - once as a founder of Comic Con in Vietnam where she grew her team to 80 employees and once as a VP of Operations of a LA based video company where she built a team from 7 to 100+ people. She is currently leading growth at a London based data startup. As an actress she has filmed over 100 episodes for Czech television. She studied Method Acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Hollywood and holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She speaks on everything startup growth related and occasionally writes for US Forbes. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx