Ex-Googler, who sold home to build podcast app, raises $13m

Ex-Googler, who sold home to build podcast app, raises $13m

A commuter uses a mobile phone while wearing headphones at Central Station in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg

Wang Xiaoyu literally bet the house on making her startup work, quitting a lucrative job at Google in late 2015 and selling her home to build a podcast app. Two years on, she still sleeps in shifts on a communal bed at her Beijing office and has yet to take a day off.

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