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Tai Tran is a Forbes contributor, worked for Apple and is the head of marketing of the Saas company Matter. He is also co-founder and president of the close the gap foundation which helps low-income students reach their fullest potential and live a fulfilling life.
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You can find more about Tai on these websites:
Close the gap foundation: https://www.closethegapfoundation.org/about
Matter: https://matterapp.com/
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Transcript:
And you're also a Forbes contributor. And this is also I read also many of your articles when we first chatted before we first chatted. So can you for anybody who thinks well, I can't be a Forbes contributor or something like this.
But can you describe how this happened so that you became a Forbes contributor and okay, so this is the 1st question? Yeah, this happened. Yeah, so I've been a big fan of Forbes. I mean, Forbes is an international brand. We all heard about Forbes. Whether is through the Midas list or the world's richest list are also the Forbes 30 under 30 list, right? And been always, you know, really love the content that's written by their editors, but also their large network of contributors who cover a variety of topics in the industry. Right? And I got I would say, I've always wanted to be a Forbes writer, probably way back in, maybe 2011 when I was still in school. But I never thought about ever writing for them. When I see Forbes, I think about the magazine like this is like a legitimate I can see the paper.
I can see the magazine. Like, how would I ever right on their website? And I think, but, you know, over time, as I write more I was more into marketing and doing social media. I'm like, oh, you know what? Like, I have a voice I want to start sharing, but I never thought about hey, I'm gonna go share on Forbes. Com. I start writing where I had access to, right? I think that's the most important step is, if you're interested in writing for a major publication, you're gonna have to start from somewhere, right? You're not gonna your day zero is not gonna be writing on Forbes.Com your day zero might be I'm gonna start posting on medium. Com, on LinkedIn publishing or Tumblr. Or maybe if you're you know, if your, up with the trends start TikTok stories, right?
