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" \nDear Cosmo Girl Working Away in Your Office Cube,  We cordially invite you to meet Alexa Hirschfeld, the 28-year-old co-founder of Paperless Post. If you&amp;#039;ve been to a birthday bash lately, your presence was probably requested via the online stationary shop that has raised more than $12 million in investments and delivered 60 million stylish e-vitations since Alexa and her brother James launched the business in 2009.  Now the New York native is one of the most powerful women in tech, with big deals like, oh, the Obama campaign and Zooey Deschanel routinely using Paperless. Cosmopolitan.com chatted with Alexa about work, life, love and her plans to work with (Harvard classmate) Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Jacobs. Girl Power Plan &amp;quot;This work thing really has a specific purpose for me, which is to be an independent human being who doesn&amp;#039;t rely on a guy or a family to be able to support myself. It&amp;#039;s not about showing somebody that I&amp;#039;m successful. It&amp;#039;s about having a wider breadth of option. I&amp;#039;m not thinking, &amp;#039;Could this person support both of us?&amp;#039; That&amp;#039;s sort of been taken off the table.&amp;quot; Equal Partners &amp;quot;I wanted to be self-sufficient and remove that feeling that you&amp;#039;re with somebody and you love each other, but that one person supports both people. Personally, I felt like no matter how close to the other person I was, it would always factor in that I was dependent on them. I&amp;#039;ve seen that happen with parents&amp;#039; friends where it didn&amp;#039;t end up working out later in life. It just seemed like it would be great not to have that hanging over one&amp;#039;s head.&amp;quot; Slackers Need Not Apply &amp;quot;Anybody that&amp;#039;s intimidated by my success probably isn&amp;#039;t the right person for me.&amp;quot; Grabbing Life By the Balls &amp;quot;I left my job as an editorial assistant with Katie Couric at CBS to start our company. I think Katie has said being at CBS was the worst time in her career. They were cutting back their news and interactive budget. I just had this very distinct feeling that I wasn&amp;#039;t in the spring of something, I was in the late fall. I wanted to be in something that was not figured out yet and I imagined that if I were, there would be more room for creativity.&amp;quot; Cutting-Edge Collaborations &amp;quot;[Paperless] can partner with unique designers in ways that [competitor] Evite would never be able to. We&amp;#039;re simpatico with designers. We see eye-to-eye with them. We&amp;#039;ve been saying it would be really amazing to work with Marc Jacobs. We want to surround ourselves with that kind of edge. I did meet Mark Zuckerberg recently at a friend&amp;#039;s wedding and he&amp;#039;s really nice. I&amp;#039;ve spoken to the head of product [at Facebook] and we&amp;#039;ve been thinking about how to use Facebook as a distribution platform.&amp;quot; Cosmo girls, are you trying to make your dream job a reality? Let us know what you think of Alexa&amp;#039;s story below\u2026 Follow Michelle on Twitter @michelleruiz "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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