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Stacey Ferreira (born September 11, 1992) is an American entrepreneur.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MySocialCloud.com Profile )〕 Ferreira is the co-founder and CEO of Forrge. Ferreira is best known for co-founding MySocialCloud.com, an online bookmark vault and password manager whose investors include Sir Richard Branson, Jerry Murdock, and Alex Welch.〔〔 She has been featured on and contributed to several news outlets, including The Huffington Post, Women 2.0, ''Business Insider'', TechCrunch, and ''Forbes''. Her current residence is in San Francisco, CA, where she serves as MySocialCloud’s Vice President.〔〔 ==Early childhood and education== Ferreira was born and raised in Scottsdale, AZ.〔〔 She attended Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girls Catholic high school in Phoenix, AZ, to complete her high school degree. During this period she served as a Board Member for a nonprofit, Open Table, which her brother co-founded at the age of 14. She also spent her high school summers getting involved in media by working at a local Phoenix educational TV station and pursuing her passion in music through GRAMMY Camp. Ferreira co-founded MySocialCloud with programmer Shiv Prakash and her brother Scott Ferreira while she was still in high school.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Building My World on a Cloud: Stacey Ferreira at TEDxYouth@SanDiego 2012 )〕 The idea originally stemmed from a computer crash that left Scott without the spreadsheet he used to store usernames and passwords for his online accounts. After graduation, the siblings moved to Los Angeles, where they developed the company while living in a small apartment in South Central LA.〔〔 The pair decided to approach Sir Richard Branson when Stacey received a Tweet inviting Branson’s Twitter followers to a two-day charity banquet in Miami.〔 She and her brother flew to the event by borrowing the $4,000 charity donation they needed to attend, from their parents.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Twenty-year-old Stacey Ferreira turned a tweet from Richard Branson into an investment. )〕 At the event they met Branson, were able to speak with him one-on-one, and after two months of discussing the business proposal, he and his business partner Jerry Murdock agreed to fund the venture.〔〔 After founding MySocialCloud, Stacey proceeded to attend New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to study Music Business. However, after one year she took a leave of absence to pursue MySocialCloud full-time.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stacey Ferreira」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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