This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michelle Lim, the founder and CEO of Flint, an AI startup based in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider has verified her employment and academic history. Entrepreneurship wasn't on the top of my mind when I was a high schooler in Singapore. It was only when I went to Yale that I told myself I needed to start exploring different things. That was when I started to seriously consider