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E011 Single Mom Quits Sales Job to Fight Cyber Stalking - Janel Maitland

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Janel Maitland was a sales executive in the corporate world with two young daughters when she bought her 11 year old an iPhone. That's when the scary stuff started happening. He daughter downloaded Instagram and the creepy Cyber Stalking began. This catapulted Janel into the cyper stalking world where '42% of teens with technology access reported that they were 'cyberbullied' in the past year, with 20% of them contemplating suicide.' Janel went on a rampage to combat this tragedy by founding MYLO Groups, a secure group messaging app for teenagers that is monitored by parents. She was working her real job during the day and her evenings and weekends were filled up with getting her app developed and raising her two daughters all of this while being a single mom. What she found in creating an app company, without being able to write a single line of code herself, is that she needed venture capital to scale her business. Once she secured her first round of funding, she pulled the ripcord on her sales executive jo