It’s that time of the year to put on our cozy sweaters, watch the leaves change, and grab a warm chai latte with a friend. It’s also when millions of college students are packing up their things and stepping onto campus for the first time. The first jittery days of college are also for many, the first time away from home where we start to dream up how we want to make our marks on the world. While some of us changed majors many times as we decided what path we wanted to take, others were laser-focused on their futures from day one. We’ve all heard stories of successful entrepreneurs who got their start in their college dorm rooms — Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Liz Elting. That last name on the list you may not have heard of. 
Liz Elting is the founder of TransPerfect — now the world’s largest language translation company — which she launched in an NYU dorm room in 1992 without any outside funding. Her new book: “Dream Big and Win: Translating Power Into Purpose and Creating a Billion-Dollar Business” chronicles the ups and downs of starting a company from nothing. Listen to the episode to hear the qualities Liz was looking for when hiring her core team of employees, why she decided not to take venture capital money, and what lessons she learned from eventually selling the business to her ex-fiancé.
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