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At Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Northwood cofounder and CEO Bridgit Mendler said that being a Disney star and leading a space startup required the same mindset.

“You just have to have a certain risk tolerance in the face of pretty significant odds,” she told Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell.

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00:00I was rejected by Disney multiple times and showed up to an open casting call and
00:04after being rejected was like, here I am again, and it worked out. And then I, you know, showed up
00:08before a tenured MIT professor with no coding experience and no undergrad degree asking for
00:13admission into their master's program. And I think a lot of space CEOs, they're confronting
00:18enormous odds working against them to have success. And so I think you just have to have
00:23a certain risk tolerance in the face of pretty significant odds.
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