Cathrine Bui on Blockchain, Negotiation and Self-Compassion - S1E4

Cathrine Bui is a master’s student in Programming and Networks at University of Oslo with a great passion in blockchain and gender issues. She was born and raised in Norway, with parents who were once boat refugees from Vietnam. In 2018, Cathrine had lived in South Korea for 10 months on a student exchange program, and had an internship there in blockchain which changed her life. She won a blockchain hackathon, got the chance to interview Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and also had dinner with David Paterson, an African American and New York governor who is blind. Same year, Cathrine founded a startup called Mind The Gapto fight the gender pay gap by teaching young professionals how to negotiate their salaries. In 2019, she founded Blockwave Norway, a student organization at University of Oslo with the aim to teach people about blockchain. Cathrine is now stepping back from her projects and talked about the importance of self-care. She also opened up about two major obstacles she faced and dived deeper on gender issues.  Cathrine said, "As a woman, you can’t wait for men to fix your problem. You are the one that needs to step up!”. Like what we do? Support our staff by buying us a cup of coffee at www.ko-fi.com/theoslodesk. Buy us 7 cups, you will automatically become our Early Bird member of The Oslo Desk. Cheers for tuning in.