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My conversation with an Estonian

Work has its benefits.  Sometimes it results in chance meetings.  Like the one last night when I met a CEO of what might become a game changer business.  The CEO was from Estonia. My first contact with the Baltic Rim.  Made of small states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (all former R's in the USSR) line the Baltic Sea, a small body of water stuck south of Scandinavia and forming the western shore of the former USSR.  The closest Russian city is St. Petersburg. So this meeting happened through a mutual connection of ours who left the states and went to work for this CEO a few months ago.  The entire interview process he tells me was conducted by Skype, which as the CEO told me is how this relatively young independent state conducts its business. In keeping with the whole Women's History Month theme I must point out that this CEO is a young woman and a mother of two, who has held other important positions in her career prior to embarking on this new pro...