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Let's chat with entrepreneurs, artists, creatives, engineers and executives who LOVE THEIR JOBS for the benefit of those looking for a job they can love. 3 years ago, Holly Payne was up against some very real struggles in her career as a novelist and a teacher. She overheard several professors at her University teaching young people that they needed to take a vow of poverty if they wanted to be a true artist. And she wasn’t buying it. Despite the fact that she had zero experience in the tech industry and had recently become a single mother with her two-year old child, she decided to build a tech startup. Payne created Booxby to solve what she calls a “signal to noise” problem in the publishing industry that was keeping her books from being discovered and preventing readers from being able to find the right book for them. She teamed up with the technical co-founder of Pandora and one of the co-founders of Netflix to create Booxby, which is an iPhone app delivering book recommendations based on the reader’