Growing up in an entrepreneurial family, Vlada Lotkina, CEO and co-founder of ClassTag, saw firsthand the successes and failures that come with pursuing your dreams. It was that inherited pioneering spirit that drove Vlada to emigrate from Ukraine to attend the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton School for her MBA.

Vlada had a few different business ideas but it wasn’t until her daughter began preschool that she fully dove into entrepreneurship. In fact, it was the overwhelming experience of teacher-parent communications that inspired Vlada to create ClassTag, a platform focused on better connecting parents with their students’ teachers.

On this episode of Defining Moments, Vlada explains how she transformed a common obstacle into an app that now benefits more than 25,000 schools and 4 million families.