Podcasts about Gilt Groupe

In this episode of Capital for Good we speak with Kevin Ryan, one of New York's leading internet entrepreneurs and investors, and often called the “Godfather of NYC tech.” Ryan is a co-founder of MongoDB, Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, Zola, Pearl Health, and Transcend Therapeutics, and every year founds and invests in new companies through AlleyCorp, the New York based venture fund and incubator. Ryan is also one of New York's driving civic leaders, serving as vice chair of the Partnership for New York City, a founding board member of Tech:NYC, and a gubernatorial appointee to numerous commissions focused on New York's economic and civic health and well-being. We begin with Ryan's early and pioneering days as a 1990s internet entrepreneur. As the president of DoubleClick, he grew the company in two years to 2,000 people across 25 countries, took it public, navigated the dotcom bust and sold it to Google in 2007. We discuss AlleyCorp's unusual model as early-stage investor and incubator, and Ryan describes AlleyCorp's most recent investment vertical, economic infrastructure, focused on the economic mobility of low- or middle-income Americans: “the 80% of families who power our economy.” This has meant identifying and backing entrepreneurs pursuing innovations in health equity, fintech, and workforce development with companies like Patch Caregiving, a first of its kind employer sponsored emergency childcare provider for frontline workers. We also explore the growth and vibrancy of New York's tech industry. New York City is one of the world's fastest growing and most valuable technology hubs, and Ryan explains how and why it powers the local and regional economy, and measures the city and state can take to continue to foster the ecosystem and its critical contributions to New York's dynamism and social fabric. Thanks for Listening! Subscribe to Capital for Good on Apple, Amazon, Google, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Drop us a line at socialenterprise@gsb.columbia.edu.  Mentioned in this podcast: AlleyCorp Patch Caregiving Partnership for New York City Tech:NYC “Empire AI”: New York State AI Consortium

Episode 382 of The @Venturefizz Podcast features Abe Murray, General Partner at AlleyCorp. I recently had Matthias Hofmann, the Co-Founder & CEO of Eyebot on the podcast and when I was doing my research on the company, I realized that their recent investment from AlleyCorp was led by one of their partners who was located in the Boston area. It made me pause, as I didn't realize that AlleyCorp had someone in the local Boston area. If you are not familiar with AlleyCorp, it is the venture fund started by Kevin Ryan who is a tech icon in NYC. Kevin led DoubleClick's growth to an IPO and acquisition by Google. He's also a co-founder of MongoDB, Business Insider, Zola, Gilt Groupe, and many others. AlleyCorp was backed as a family office by Kevin until last year when it became an institutional VC firm through the announcement of its $250M Fund I which includes outside LPs for the first time. Abe is leading AlleyCorp's deep tech investments, so it just makes sense that he is based in the the Boston area, as there is such a high concentration of innovation and companies in the Northeast. In this episode of our podcast, we cover: * Abe's background story which includes dropping out of high school to run fishing boats & factories in the family aquaculture business and the importance of growing up with a chip on your shoulder. * Starting his career at BAE Systems where he worked on Generative AI and advanced technologies for the defense industry. * Going to Harvard Business School and working on a startup called Doodbleboard, an online whiteboard. * Landing at Google, then later Alphabet, where he worked on various AI/ML initiatives, as well as the Android mobile team with Rich Miner. * Taking on the healthcare industry and leading the Boston office for Verily, an Alphabet company. * Getting into angel investing and how he landed at AlleyCorp. * All the details about AlleyCorp and the investments they are making across the firm, plus the specifics about what Abe is targeting. * The importance of storytelling and advice on how to get great at it. * And so much more. Eyebot interview: https://venturefizz.com/insights/episode-368-matthias-hofmann-co-founder-ceo-of-eyebot/

Rachel Jarrett is the co-CEO of Zola, a leading platform for wedding planning that has experienced explosive growth under her leadership. With over 2 million couples choosing Zola for their wedding journey, Rachel is renowned for her innovative approach and collaborative leadership style. Her achievements have been highlighted in Inc Magazine and studied at Harvard Business School. Rachel brings extensive experience from traditional retail and ecommerce, previously leading Baby & Kids at Gilt Groupe and holding senior roles at Barnes & Noble.com, FAO Schwarz, and Toys “R” Us. She holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and is actively involved in advising startups and serving on boards, including Tech.

pWotD Episode 2667: Ashley Biden Welcome to Popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 382,358 views on Tuesday, 20 August 2024 our article of the day is Ashley Biden.Ashley Blazer Biden (born June 8, 1981) is an American social worker, activist, and fashion designer. She served as the executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 to 2019. Prior to her administrative role at the center, Biden worked in the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families. She founded the fashion company Livelihood, which partners with the online retailer Gilt Groupe to raise money for community programs focused on eliminating income inequality in the United States, launching it at New York Fashion Week in 2017. Biden's parents are President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 03:08 UTC on Wednesday, 21 August 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Ashley Biden on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Amy.

Imagine thinking it would be a good idea to try to help people eat more fruits and vegetables, so you start making whole foods smoothies for your friends and family. Soon you're selling them to more people than you personally know. Next thing you know, you're running an all-vegan frozen meal company with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, a billion dollar-plus valuation, and hundreds of thousands of customers all enjoying your whole foods plant-based meals.  That's the true story of Rachel Drori, founder of Daily Harvest, whose success with the company landed her on Forbes' list of America's Wealthiest Self-Made Women. But it wasn't all success along the way. Two years ago, after the company had achieved its unicorn status, tragedy struck. Dozens of people were sickened by one of their products, and it wasn't clear why. Some people were even hospitalized. In addition to the serious suffering of some of its customers, the crisis captivated national headlines, threatening to put an end to the Daily Harvest story after so much growth and success. Eventually, the root cause of the problem was found: A little-known ingredient called tara flour (not to be confused with taro flour) caused a seemingly allergic reaction in a small number of people—and policies were put in place to prevent a recurrence.  Yet, the story didn't end there.  In the two years since the tragedy, Daily Harvest has since branched out away from just direct-to-consumer sales and is now in thousands of supermarkets too, making it easier than ever for consumers to choose healthy plant-based meals. And as you'll hear in this conversation with Rachel, they've even achieved that lucrative land known as profitability.  So, how did this all happen, and what's next for Daily Harvest? Listen to the episode to find out. Discussed in this episode Rachel recommends Brené Brown's Power of Vulnerability TED Talk—apparently 65 million viewers agree. Daily Harvest is now sold at Kroger, Target, and more. Some Daily Harvest meals are about $5 per serving. Rachel landed on Forbes' list of America's Wealthiest Self-Made Women Our past episode with Doug Evans of Juicero.  More about Rachel Drori, Founder of Daily Harvest  Rachel Drori is taking care of food, so food can take care of you. As the Founder of Daily Harvest, Rachel and the company are on a mission to improve human and planetary health by making it convenient to eat more sustainably grown, organic fruits and vegetables every day.   Since launching the business out of the trunk of her car in 2015, more than 20 million pounds of sustainably grown fruits and vegetables have been delivered to consumers' doorsteps while supporting farmers' transition to regenerative and organic practices. Drori founded Daily Harvest with just 12 smoothies. The company, now valued at over $1 billion, offers meals and snacks for any time of day. In 2023, the company built on its successful direct-to-consumer business with its launch into national retail. Daily Harvest is now found in the freezer section of grocery stores across the country. Prior to Daily Harvest, Drori spent years honing her skills as a customer-centric marketing executive, leading teams at Gilt Groupe, American Express and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. She has been named one of Inc.'s "Female Founders 100". Drori graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School.  She lives in NYC with her husband and two sons.

https://youtu.be/eIGdnieYM_sIn this episode, I welcome Sachin K. Bhargava, the Senior Director of Digital Products and e-commerce at John Hardy, a leading luxury jewelry brand. Sachin brings a wealth of experience from his roles at notable companies like Gilt Groupe, Mack Weldon, and Bespoke Post. He shares with us his journey in e-commerce, emphasizing the importance of creating exceptional customer experiences and the evolving KPIs in today's digital landscape.Sachin shares insights on the challenges of attribution in omnichannel marketing, the integration of AI tools for better decision-making, and the significance of retention strategies over acquisition in a competitive market.Additionally, Sachin offers valuable advice for entrepreneurs navigating the complexities of digital marketing and operations, highlighting the need for specialized expertise and the benefits of leveraging fractional work. We also learn about his unique background as a professional dancer and his entrepreneurial venture with Any Baby, a gender-neutral baby clothing line.Tune in to gain actionable tips on enhancing customer experiences, leveraging data, and balancing passion with career growth in the dynamic world of e-commerce.Website: https://www.vimmi.netEmail us: info@vimmi.netPodcast website: https://vimmi.net/ecom-pulse-podcast/Talk to us on Social:LinkedIn Vimmi: https://il.linkedin.com/company/vimmiLinkedIn Eitan Koter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eitankoter/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VimmiCommunicationsGuest: Sachin K. Bhargava, the Senior Director of Digital Products and e-commerce at John HardyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachin-k-bhargava/Any Baby - https://anybaby.io/SKB Digital - https://www.skb.digital/Sachin's online course for entrepreneurs trying to scale an e-commerce brand -https://www.udemy.com/course/entrepreneurship-digital-strategy-academy/?referralCode=091CCA9766137BB8CE93 Takeaways:Providing a great customer experience is crucial for e-commerce success, and it should be tailored to the specific needs of each brand.Different businesses have different KPIs, and it's important to measure and optimize them based on the specific goals and context of the brand.AI can be a valuable tool in improving decision-making and optimizing marketing efforts, but it should be used in conjunction with human expertise.Attribution in an omnichannel environment is challenging, and better technology solutions are needed to track and understand customer journeys.Entrepreneurs face challenges in acquiring the necessary expertise and resources to run a successful business, and leveraging fractional work can be a cost-effective solution.Experimentation, data analysis, and iteration are key to finding effective marketing tactics and optimizing performance.Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Background02:00 Delivering a Great Customer Experience05:14 The Role of AI in Decision-Making10:14 Challenges of Attribution in an Omnichannel Environment16:09 Overcoming Challenges as an Entrepreneur

Description:Today, Hudson Davis-Ross joins the show to share about Co-Founding a mission-driven company that truly helps people with their health needs. From being diagnosed with ADHD in middle school to undergoing spinal surgery, Hudson has faced his fair share of health challenges. Tune in to learn all about his captivating entrepreneurial journey, from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, to founding his first company, RISE, to ultimately becoming the co-founder of Plant People – whose plant-based products offer natural alternatives to pharmaceuticals. Along the way, we explore how he navigated major setbacks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and gain insights into his refreshing perspective on building purpose-driven businesses!Exclusive Deals from Our Sponsors:AWESOME CX by Transcom provides high-touch, personalized customer experience services to consumer brands of any size! Email Lee at lee@stairwaytoceo.com to learn more about their award-winning services and Awesome Coffee ChatsIn This Episode You'll Hear About:• [01:54] What it was like growing up in New York, at the epicenter of so many industries, within a household dominated by women.• [06:43] Hudson's ADHD diagnosis in middle school, the many different interests he pursued, and the benefits and drawbacks of having ADHD when you're an entrepreneur.• [10:23] His experience working at Gilt Groupe from its early stages as a small startup to having over two thousand employees.• [14:13] Why he decided to leave Gilt Groupe and take on a role at Aloha as part of the founding team, and his top takeaways from the experience.• [18:25] What made Hudson shift to co-founding his first company, RISE Brewing Company, key lessons he learned, and how he met his partners.• [25:32] Fundraising for RISE, and how it led to him starting his branding and business strategy firm, CROSBY.• [27:29] The drastic spinal surgery that Hudson had to get, how it led to the founding of Plant People, and what it was like entering into the CBD and cannabis space.• [30:22] How they stepped up their business, educated consumers, and the innovations they were doing with regards to ingredients and formulations.• [32:42] Their decision to scale up, why they decided not to take on more funding, the dramatic impact that COVID-19 had on their revenue, and how they recovered.• [35:27] Hudson's insights on partnering with retailers and distributors, advice for aspiring and up-and-coming entrepreneurs, and what's next for Plant People.To Find Out More:Hudson Davis-Ross on LinkedinPlant PeopleRISE Brewing CompanyCROSBYGiltExpo WestLee Greene on LinkedInStairway to CEOStairway to CEO on InstagramQuotes:“I always hope to, at some point in my life, write a book on having ADHD and being an entrepreneur, because I think there's a lot of pluses and minuses – mostly pluses.” [0:07:19]“If you have [a] really big vision, and momentum with other investors, people will invest. It really is a hype game. And so I learned a lot around fundraising [at Aloha].” [0:17:12]“[To be] the Apple of anything – takes decades. You can't just do that [in a] matter of a year or two. But that's what we pitched [to] a lot of the investors. And so I think there was a bit of a disconnect there.” [0:18:43]“The main reason I started this business, [Plant People] is I had spinal surgery, [I had to] learn how to walk again.” [0:27:31]“My now co-founder also had a spinal surgery and was exploring plant-based modalities himself. And so we started together.” [0:28:01]“I had more passion for making an impact in people's lives.” [0:28:12]“We had so much pushback in the beginning because people didn't understand CBD. They thought it was weed. They thought it was THC, they were like, ‘Will I get high from this?' That was the biggest education point.” [0:30:59]“Tap into what customers want [and] are already [buying], [but do] it better.” [0:36:09]“In general, you just got to hustle. You have to go with momentum, you have to have a lot of boutiques [and] a lot of independents. And when you have that momentum, then you can get the attention of distributors.” [0:36:27]“The secret sauce is to be an entrepreneur – is to use the resources you don't have, to achieve what you believe in.” [0:37:56]“You can hire sales managers who have been in sales, and they have rolodexes. And that does help. But I think no one sells better than the founder or the CEO.” [0:39:39]“One of the things that is key to success is showing your team, or showing your initial hires, that you're all in.” [0:41:06]“If you're doing it, the team can do it. And if you're passionate about it, the team gets passionate about it, they see the value.” [0:43:09]

Kevin Ryan is one of the leading serial entrepreneurs and investors in New York. Previously he co-founded MongoDB, Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, Zola, Nomad Health, Pearl Health, and was the CEO of DoubleClick (Acquired by Google for $3.1B). Today, Kevin is the founder and CEO of AlleyCorp, a venture capital firm that incubates and invests in transformative companies in healthcare, diversified tech, robotics, and impact. Just yesterday, Alleycorp announced their $250M fund, their first ever external capital.  In Today's Episode with Kevin Ryan We Discuss: Early Signs of Entrepreneurship How did Kevin's early life shape his career? How would his parents and teachers describe him? Does Kevin agree that successful entrepreneurs always show signs early? What does Kevin think about luck vs. skill? Why does Kevin think that most things are out of your control as an entrepreneur? Lessons from Founding 10+ Companies Worth $27BN Does Kevin agree the best CEOs are also the best fundraisers? What were Kevin's biggest lessons from scaling DoubleClick from 20 to 2000 employees? What was Kevin's a-ha moment behind Business Insider? What was the reason behind its success? Why does Kevin believe the best founders are always in unfamiliar fields? Incubating World's Best Companies How does Kevin allocate resources between incubations vs. investments? What are the biggest commonalities between successful companies at AlleyCorp? Is Kevin a market-led or people-led investor? What does Kevin think is the most important element in achieving product-market fit? What was Kevin's biggest miss on selecting founders? What were his takeaways? Current State of Venture Why does Kevin believe venture is more competitive now than ever before? What does Kevin know now that wish he'd known when he started investing? Does Kevin agree rich investors make better investors? Why does Kevin not care about ownership? Does Kevin agree with Doug Leone that venture has transitioned from a high boutique margin industry to a low margin commoditised industry? Does Kevin agree with Peter Fenton that price is a mental trap?  

In this episode, we're joined by Eric Bowman - Recent CTO at King and Former CTO at TomTom to uncover the new possibilities large language learning models unlock for IoT. We discuss why large language models might be a game-changer for IoT, the power of small language models at the edge for human-device interaction, AI security risks and the recent NY Times lawsuit against OpenAI and more! Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Background 02:50 TomTom as an IoT Business 05:16 The Interpretation of IoT Data 08:48 Skills Needed for IoT Development 13:08 Technological Advancements in IoT (Large Language Learning Models) 23:11 The Potential of AI and IoT Interaction 27:27 Security and Privacy Concerns in IoT 30:14 The Challenges of Quantum Computing in IoT 33:06 The Pace of Innovation in Technology 35:23 The Need for Advanced Productivity Tools And much more! Thank you to our season sponsor, 5V Tech: Discover how 5V Tech can help you unlock your scaling potential in cutting-edge tech and IoT, here: https://www.weare5vtech.com/ ABOUT THE GUEST Eric is the current Chief Technology Officer at King, a mobile gaming powerhouse acquired by Microsoft, they lead strategic technology initiatives aimed at enhancing player experience. Prior to his role at King, he served as the Senior Vice President of Engineering and CTO at TomTom, spearheading transformative efforts in product portfolios for an AI-driven future. His career spans pivotal roles at Zalando, Gilt Groupe, and LooCee, where he drove technological innovation and scalability. Notably, Eric contributed to pioneering projects like the world's first 3G Service Delivery Platform and the development of The Sims 1.0 franchise, the top-selling PC game. Connect with Eric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boboco/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE IOT PODCAST ON YOUR FAVOURITE LISTENING PLATFORM: https://linktr.ee/theiotpodcast Sign Up for exclusive email updates: https://theiotpodcast.com/ Contact us to become a guest/partner: https://theiotpodcast.com/contact/ Connect with host Tom White: / tom5values

Shan-Lyn Ma, co-founder and co-CEO of wedding registry site Zola, was destined to be an entrepreneur. In fact, her childhood bedroom décor featured a poster of her idol, Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo. After graduating with her MBA from Stanford, Ma pursued her lifelong dream and took a role at Yahoo, first as an intern and later in product marketing. Two years later, she moved over to e-commerce company Gilt Groupe as its first Product Lead. It was during her time there that she founded and ran her own business unit, Gilt Taste, where she worked closely with future Zola Co-Founder Nobu Nakaguchi. Though Ma moved on to a role as Chief Product Officer at jewelry company Chloe + Isabel, she and Nobu were percolating on an idea for a business. During that time, Ma was also spending nearly every weekend at friends' weddings and was repeatedly met with clunky registry sites. She and Nobu realized this area of wedding planning needed disrupting and they set out to do just that. Zola has now helped over 2 million couples plan their weddings and just recently expanded to include a baby registry service. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A LA LATINA / CLAUDIA + CYNTHIA Claudia Romo Edelman and Cynthia Kleinbaum Melner are each remarkable women who joined forces to launch a podcast by successful women for any and all women (and frankly, any and all men):  “A La Latina - The Playbook To Succeed Being Your Authentic Self”.   Claudia is a staunch advocate for Hispanics in America and founder of We Are All Human. Cynthia Kleinbaum Milnerhas decades of experience in business and is currently the Chief Marketing Officer of Money Lion. We explore why they launched "A LA LATINA”. Despite Latinas representing 9% of the US population, they are vastly underrepresented in the places where power and influence are dispensed. Their podcast aims to bridge that divide by spotlighting Latinas leading in corporate America and offers listeners deep dives into their journeys, sharing wisdom from industry behemoths like Coca-Cola, NFL, and Spotify. The focus is to explore actionable strategies tailored for success — the Latina way. Listeners discover stories of Latinas who've carved a niche for themselves in the business world. They share expert perspectives on overcoming biases and challenges in the corporate world while fostering professional growth in synchrony with cherishing cultural roots. Claudia is a Mexican-Swiss public servant, speaker and media contributor who is a activist for equity, diversity and inclusion. She has decades of experience working at organizations that include UNICEF, UNHCR, the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. She founded We Are All Human and The Hispanic Star and was a marketing professor at  the University of Geneva.  Cynthia, prior to her current role as CMO of Money Lion, held a number of leadership roles at Walmart including being VP, Marketing for Walmart+ where she grew adoption of digital services that redefined the company's omnichannel go-to-market strategy. Prior to that, she repositioned the digitally native brand Bonobos, improved customer experience at Gilt Groupe, revamped Nestle's Nesquik brand in Mexico consulted at The Boston Consulting Group. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and B.A. degree with honors from Universidad Iberoamericana. “Hispanic progress is American progress” “The minority within the minority, the gap between the gap” EPISODE OUTLINE (0:00) - Intro (0:38) - Background (01:10) - Why the blind spots; solving for representation, moving the needle (04:24) - A La Latina is launched; climbing the ladder, stereotypes, dual modes (06:43) - Breaking inertia; Latinidad, reclaiming identities, how to make it authentically (09:21) - New leadership-styles flip the script; when we write, performance is higher (10:50) - Diversity is good business; it's not charity, just look at the math (13:17) - Business 100%; and churros, yum! (14:10) - Outro GENERAL INFO| TOP OF THE GAME: Official website: https://topofthegame-thepod.com/ RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/topofthegame-thepod/feed.xml Hosting service show website: https://topofthegame-thepod.podbean.com/ Javier's LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/javiersaade & Bio: https://tinyurl.com/36ufz6cs  SUPPORT & CONNECT: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/96934564 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551086203755 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOPOFGAMEpod Subscribe on Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/site/podcatcher/index/blog/vLKLE1SKjf6G Email us: info@topofthegame-thepod.com   THANK YOU FOR LISTENING – AVAILABLE ON ALL MAJOR PLATFORMS

What does it mean to be omnipresent in the food channel? Daily Harvest founder and CEO Rachel Drori explains how her company aims to meet consumers where they are via direct-to-consumer and retail channels, and how it supports regenerative agriculture across the U.S. More about Rachel Drori: Rachel Drori is taking care of food, so food can take care of you. As the Founder of Daily Harvest, Rachel and the company are on a mission to improve human and planetary health by making it convenient to eat more sustainably grown, organic fruits and vegetables daily. Since launching the business in 2015, more than 20 million pounds of sustainably grown fruits and vegetables have been delivered to consumers' doorsteps while supporting farmers' transition to regenerative and organic practices. Drori founded Daily Harvest with just 12 smoothies. The company, now valued at over $1 billion, offers over 100 options across nine different collections including smoothies, flatbreads, harvest bowls, grains and more. In 2023, the company built on its successful direct-to-consumer business with its launch into national retail. Daily Harvest is now found in the freezer section of more than 1,100 grocery stores across the country with more to come. Prior to Daily Harvest, Drori spent years honing her skills as a customer-centric marketing executive, leading teams at Gilt Groupe, American Express and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. She has been named one of Inc.'s “Female Founders 100.” Drori graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School. She lives in NYC with her husband and two sons. More about Daily Harvest: Daily Harvest is on a mission to make it really easy to eat more sustainably grown, organic fruits + vegetables every day. Why? Getting in 5 servings daily can help you live longer on a healthier planet. Our chef-crafted food is delicious, easy to prep, and built on the good stuff. From seed to plate, we're committed to a better food system, one that prioritizes human and planetary health. We are transforming what we eat, what we grow, and how we grow it — one crop (and bite) at a time. Learn more at: https://www.daily-harvest.com/

Catalina Daniels and James Sherman are startup company founders, angel investors, and co-authors of SMART STARTUPS: What Every Entrepreneur Needs To Know—Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders, on shelves today, October 10th! Which is my birthday, so feel free to leave FUTUREPROOF. A review on Apple Podcasts in my honor, and thanks in advance! Anyhow, I really enjoyed SMART STARTUPS since it provides unconventional advice for entrepreneurs based on the experiences of 18 companies founded by Harvard Business School graduates—including unicorns like Rent The Runway, Gilt Groupe, and more.Daniels and Sherman studied entrepreneurship together at Harvard Business School. Years later, their experiences as founders were drastically different from what they learned at HBS. There was so much they learned the hard way, that they wish they wished they had known beforehand. And as angel investors and mentors to founders, they've seen many promising startups fail due to unexpected pitfalls—some of which we're going to discuss right now, so let's jump right in!

Lex chats with Cynthia Kleinbaum Milner, CMO at MoneyLion - a mobile banking and financial membership platform that integrates spending, saving, borrowing, and investing tools to empower consumers towards better financial wellness. Kincking off the conversation, Cynthia delves into the intricacies of charting a career in the ever-evolving landscape of digital transformation, sharing her transition from brand marketing to holistic marketing. As they navigate through industry insights, Cynthia provides a closer look at the challenges and strategies of targeting different sectors and personas, as well as marketing at scale across various business verticals. A significant portion of the discussion revolves around MoneyLion's journey. Cynthia charts the evolution of the platform, highlighting its transformation from its early days to a renowned digital banking platform, underscoring its core value proposition. This leads to an insightful conversation on the growth, valuation, and shifting fintech market trends that have shaped MoneyLion's trajectory. Cynthia goes on to detail the importance of financial literacy within the app, focusing on content evolution and user value. She further discusses the nuances of content discovery, the company's revenue model, and the balance between engagement and profitability. Navigating the tricky waters of financial influencers, Cynthia stresses the importance of balancing content quality with regulatory compliance. The podcast culminates with a forward-looking view, as Cynthia sheds light on MoneyLion's strategic priorities in the upcoming years. MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION MoneyLion's Website: https://bit.ly/45YHQVlCynthia's LinkedIn profile: https://bit.ly/460jn1S Topics: Fintech, marketing, brand, e-commerce, customer lifecycle, embedded finance, brand, Marketplace Companies: MoneyLion, Walmart, Bonobos, Nestle, Gilt Groupe, Even Financial, Malka, ZenDrive ABOUT THE FINTECH BLUEPRINT 

Yvonne has 20 years of merchandising and digital experience in the retail industry. Her career has spanned working at retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Gilt Groupe and Walmart Ecommerce. On this episode, she speaks with Julie Kim about a series of career pivots that led from aspirations of a legal career to one in fashion all because a classmate asked her if she'd be interested in a job position she knew nothing about.

The fashion industry is incredibly wasteful. Of the 100 billion garments manufactured in the world every year over 50 billion end up in landfill within 12 months. Inspired by Iceland, where beauty and sustainability go hand in hand, Katla.com is an eco-friendly fashion brand built on the core values of respect for people, animals and the environment. KATLA is pioneering a regenerative fashion business model and recognizes that the needs of the world today demand that we strive further and put in more than we take out. It is not enough to simply limit our impact on the environment; rather, we need to also put our efforts into regeneration. Katla has a range of items made of seaweed blends that have been sustainably harvested in Iceland in the area surrounding Sleepy Islands. Listeners of Who's Saving the Planet can get an exclusive $100 Credit by entering the code planet100 at checkout. Seaweed regeneration is a key tool to solving the climate crisis as seaweed is an effective tool for carbon sequestration. More than land forest, seaweed is in fact up to 20x more effective at carbon sequestration. KATLA has set up an experimental hatchery in the Sleepy Islands for the development of best practices for seaweed cultivation in Iceland. Katla works with leading fabric suppliers to develop vegan fabrics with minimal environmental impact. Katla uses small production runs and on-demand manufacturing to minimize wasted inventory.  Katla is pioneering advances in Web 3 including the delivery of NFTs directly through clothing. Katla recently launched a series of NFTs, the Wonderful Beings, in collaboration with Icelandic artist Hendrikka Waage. A portion of the sales will go towards ocean regeneration.   Aslaug Magnusdottir, Founder & CEO Katla   Aslaug Magnusdottir is the Founder and CEO of Katla, a DTC, sustainable fashion brand that applies zero waste manufacturing practices. Aslaug is the Co-Founder and former CEO of luxury e-commerce site Moda Operandi. Previously, she launched TSM Capital, a retail and fashion investment company she co-founded with industry legend Marvin Traub. She served as a senior executive at Gilt Groupe, overseeing merchandising. Previously, Magnusdottir served as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co and as a corporate attorney at Deloitte. A Fulbright Scholar, Magnusdottir holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an LL.M from Duke University School of Law and an undergraduate degree in Law from the University of Iceland. She is a Forbes contributor on sustainable fashion.   Website: www.katla.com Instagram: @katlaforce Aslaug Magnusdottir   Listener $100 credit is code planet100 for use at check out at www.katla.com

A 2022 survey by Indeed found more than a third of working women have thought about quitting their jobs because of burnout and the demands of family life. To help you retain the women in your workforce, and attract more top female talent, we've turned to Kate Muzzatti, Chief People Officer at Maven Clinic. Highlights [2:21] The State of Employer Family Health Benefits [4:40] Employer attitudes about reproductive health benefits [6:40] Where are potential family support/reproductive health benefits gaps?  [10:07] Benefits ripe for investment [11:43] Tips for advancing a more equitable family support/reproductive health benefits package [14:06] Gauging how employees feel about existing benefits [19:00] Demographics-based benefits inclusivity [20:56] Do family benefits trends impact men in the workplace? [22:01] Success tip for new CHROs [24:31] Tying people strategy to business strategy Guest Bio Kate Muzzatti, Chief People Officer, Maven Clinic Prior to joining Maven Clinic, the world's largest virtual clinic for women's and family health, Kate Muzzatti served as Chief People Officer at Babylist and has held people and human resources leadership positions at M.M.LaFleur, Blue Apron, and Gilt Groupe. Kate received her B.S. in Psychology from Santa Clara University. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children. Linkshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-muzzatti-b008b02/ https://www.mavenclinic.com/ https://www.mavenclinic.com/interactive-experience/the-state-of-fertility-and-family-benefits-report https://www.linkedin.com/company/mavenclinic/ https://www.facebook.com/mavenclinic/ https://twitter.com/mavenclinic?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.instagram.com/mavenclinic/?hl=en https://www.tiktok.com/@mavenclinic We want to hear from you. Leave a review (5-Star would be nice!) on Apple Podcasts and add your question in the comment. We read every review and use them to choose topics, guests, and interview questions for the podcast. You can also reach out at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠podcast@hrmorning.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  If you love this show, please share your favorite episodes with colleagues and on social media. We greatly appreciate your support. Thank you for listening. Remember to subscribe and follow us so you never miss an episode!  Voices of HR is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HRMorning.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

It doesn't seem fair that our society has developed boys and men who can be loud and agressive and everyone thinks that is fine. When a woman is not even agressive but assertive, and speaks up, she is often labeled one of an assortment of names - one is five letters and starts with a B. Women who thrive in sales leadership learn the "dance" between not being "too much" and being "enough".  There is no road map for this - that's why we talk to amazing leaders like Ang McManamon, who has been at Gilt Groupe, Amazon, Knotel (among others) and now VP Sales at Crunchbase. Ang talks about her climb into leadership and how she supports her people so that they feel like she has their back. 

https://podcasts.mongodb.com/public/115/The-MongoDB-Podcast-b02cf624/f96bd55fTranscriptMichael Lynn: Welcome to the show. My name is Michael Lynn and this is the MongoDB Podcast. Thanks for joining us. Today on the show, Lena Smart, Chief Security Officer of MongoDB, and I team up to interview Dwight Merriman, co- founder and key contributor to MongoDB. Dwight Merriman is a true tech legend. In addition to co- founding and co- creating the MongoDB database and 10gen now called MongoDB, the company. He also co- founded and led several other well known successful companies including Business Insider, DoubleClick and Gilt Groupe. In today's interview, Dwight shares openly and honestly about the motivations behind creating the database, which now actually claims nearly half of the entire NoSQL market. He talks about the decision to build the database rather than use something that existed at the time. Dwight's friendly, easy to talk to, knowledgeable, and probably one of the smartest individuals that I've had the pleasure of chatting with. Without further ado, let's get to the interview. If you enjoy the content, please consider visiting Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Leave a rating and a comment if you're able, let us know what you think. Stay tuned. Hey, did you know that MongoDB University has been completely redesigned? That's right. Hands- on labs, quizzes, study guides and materials, bite- sized video lectures, programming language specific courses. You can learn MongoDB in the programming language of your choice, Node. js, Python, C#, Java, so many more. You can earn that MongoDB certification by validating your skills and leveling up your career. Visit learn. mongodb. com today.Lena Smart: So it is my absolute pleasure, and I'm so glad that you could make it in person today, to introduce Dwight Merriman. He is the first CEO of MongoDB, and you were still coding, I understand. You're also co- founder and director of MongoDB as of today. Are you still coding?Dwight Merriman: I'm still coding or tinkering a bit myself, but not on the database anymore. I think there's, to really dive in and work on it, there's a certain minimum number of hours a week you have to work on it, just to keep up with the code base and the state of everything, because it's not short, it's not a small program anymore.Lena Smart: Amazing. And also in the room we have Mike Lynn, who's our developer advocate, and I know that you'll likely have some questions.Michael Lynn: Yeah, for sure.Lena Smart: And just fire ahead, because probably this will be the most interesting person I'll speak to in a inaudible too.Michael Lynn: Well I'm fascinated already and I've got so many questions for Dwight, but I'm going to let you go ahead and ask away.Lena Smart: Cool. So the first question I have, and this has been a burning question of mine since I joined three and a half years ago, is how did you start the company? How did you start MongoDB?Dwight Merriman: Right, so when we started, actually the name of the company was 10gen, and this was around 2008, or I forget the date, maybe two months before that, I can't remember. The original, what we were really looking at, at the time, is as myself and our other co- founders like Elliot and Kevin, we've been working on various entrepreneurial projects, and we were seeing this repeated pattern where over and over. New product idea, you start building the system. At this point, I've been doing that for quite a long time. So knew what the best practices were at the time. But it was always around that timeframe, January, 2008, whenever it was, it just seemed like it was always a bit awkward. There was awkward and un- anesthetic, and it just seemed like there was a lot of duct tape and rubber bands. And even though those were best practices. You would talk to CTOs at the time, and they would say things like, " Putting memcached in front of databases is okay, and roll your own sharding in front of my MySQL sequel or Postgres is okay, but it isn't. It was because there wasn't a better way at the time. And everything, that was really when the cloud computing EC2 was really taking off. So it was very clear to us that cloud computing was the future, and a lot of the traditional products weren't very cloud- friendly. So if you have a database that scales vertically, so I can make it bigger, but then it's a mainframe, or a Sun 6500 or something like that, that's the opposite of a cloud principle, which is horizontal scalability and elasticity. And then if you tried to do it the other way, horizontally, it was usually rolling your own when it came to operational databases. And a lot of other things, but also just agile development was the way to go then, all iterative development. But a lot of the old tools, and this isn't just databases, but languages, everything, weren't really designed for that, because they were invented earlier. So it's not their fault. So we were just saying, " Gee, there's got to be a better way to develop applications," and this is both on the how to develop them, how to code them, and also on how to scale them, and how to run them in the cloud painlessly. So our first concept was just we were going to do platform as a service. So we were going to try to do a fresh take on the developer stack, versus LAMP and whatever else was common then. And see what we could come up with. So we started building a platform as a service system. It was open source and this was very early. So I think when we went to beta, it was almost exactly the same time that Google's, was it Google App Engine?Lena Smart: Yeah.Dwight Merriman: It's the same time it came out to beta. So our timing was, it was like when they came out with it. And I was like, "Oh, okay, somebody there's thinking similar thoughts." And so that was fine. But a few months later, as we got a little further into it, I was thinking about it and I was like, I'm looking at things like AWS, where they have all these microservices. And they're like, " I'm not going to give you a full cloud platform. I'm going to give you some building box for your toolbox, and over time I'll give you more." Because the scope is large, so today they have a lot of services, but this, we're 15 years later- ish. So if I give you a platform though, to give you everything you need really, it's a big scope, and it's going to take quite a while to build it. So I think platform as a service makes sense, but we got further into it, and we had something working analogous to Google App Engine, or I guess, Heroku was around back then. It just felt like, " Boy, to get this true maturity, there's so many pieces that you would want in it. It's going to take a long time. This is, it's going to take a decade or something." And for a startup you only have so much runway. And it's now even today platform as a service, I think, is a valid notion and concept, but it's certainly not mature yet. The more AWS style or microservices- style approach, which you could do on all the big cloud platforms today, I just, I say AWS because I'm just contrasting it with the PaaS vendors back in the day, approach is still the dominant approach. So we've been building this, and really what were we building? So we're trying to build something where you'd write some code, you put it in inaudible, then you would just click Deploy. And it would deploy your app into our system in the cloud, try to handle scaling for you, including things like app server layer, app tier, how many app servers should there be, and low balancing for that. All this is just happening automatically. You don't have to think about it at all. So it's really trying to eliminate a lot of the operational overhead. It's just, give you a platform. It's like, " Here's my app, I've written all the code, deploy it." And it just happens, and you don't think about machines at all. So this is an aspiration. Obviously what we built, there's a little bit about machines, if we look at today with MongoDB and sharding, and things like that. I mean we do have things like Serverless, but we also have things like sharding where, as the person developing a system, how many shards you have, you can change it, but it's not like it's just completely opaque in that sense. And likewise in your replica sets, have control over how many copies of things there are. But conception, that was the path. We were looking at completely elastic, serverless too. But as we looked at it, we also were thinking about what would we want if we were building a new app or system. And there's certain features I wanted from the data layer, and if you really went to something that was just 100% inaudible, infinitely scalable and so forth, you're getting into things that were more like the early Amazon Dynamo stuff, where they're more, at least back then, it was just more a key value store, key document store, if you will. You didn't have the rich database functionality. So we didn't want to throw out tons and tons of data layer functionality. So our approach was, it had some traditional elements to it, but then we tried to innovate on those. And it's like, yes, it's sharded, but it's auto- sharded. You can, it'll do it, you don't have to write it yourself. And the replication, it's still replication, but it's a lot more sophisticated than the traditional just primary- secondary model, and push button on a lot of these things. So we've been building this platform, we had the app layer, data layer, and then it's just like, " Gee, this is such a large scope for a startup." We didn't have many people at the time, and it was maybe I feel like we should just do one or the other. We should do this, the app layer of the platform, or the data layer. So if we look back at Heroku, their data layer was Postgres, right? That's how they reduced the scope. And then in the end we decided to focus on data layer, because we were in beta with the platform.Michael Lynn: What was the platform called by the way?Dwight Merriman: 10gen.Michael Lynn: 10gen? Okay.Dwight Merriman: And then we called the data layer MongoDB. And since it was sort of a module or a component, we didn't mind using a slightly cheeky name, because it wasn't the name of the whole product at the time. But actually the background on the name, is that the concept of the Mongo is it's the middle of the word, " Humongous," and half of the point was the horizontal scalability, or easy scalability of the product. And then the other half is of developer productivity and agility. That's where the name came from. So it was the name of the subsystem. And then it's like, " Okay, that's all we're going to do now, instead of the whole platform." So there was a pivot if you will, which we did very early. Things were going fine, but we were getting very good feedback on the beta of the platform. But I was just thinking ahead in how this plays out. And it was like, " This is a lot to do." And also the rate of the adoption of that model. But then thinking about, " Well, do we do the app layer or the data layer to cut the scope?" We were getting really good feedback on the data layer of the platform from the beta testers. So they were like, " Hey, I really like this." So that helped us feel like, " Okay, maybe let's just take the data layer, let's un- bundle it from this platform as a service- thing and just make it a database, open source database, you could run anywhere." And so we just pulled it out of the code base so it was its own thing. And then it's like, " Well, I guess we need to write some drivers." So we spent a month or two running drivers, and then we released version 0. 9. And then it was just all we were working on, was MongoDB, and that was the company.Michael Lynn: What drove the decision to go open source?Lena Smart: Mm- hmm. That was going to be my question. Thank you.Michael Lynn: Sorry.Dwight Merriman: It seemed pretty clear to us that the traditional enterprise model was changing. And obviously there was a lot of things that were open source at the time. There's a lot of things that were SaaS, and then there's some things that were freemium, that seemed like the options that people were doing for new stuff, were those three. They weren't the classic enterprise software. They were maybe free. For example, I hope, I don't get this wrong, but I think Splunk, it was free for a small amount of data, and then it turned into more enterprise software. And then of course you had any things that are SaaS, or maybe you call it infrastructure as a service, you pay for what you use, and then there's just the open source stuff. So we felt like, " Okay, we are a startup, how do we get awareness, branding, adoption?" People that try it as a startup, they're very big companies. Some of the biggest companies in the world have databases, and how do we compete with them? How do we compete with Oracle, how do we compete with Amazon? Things like this. And it seems like the open source is the asymmetry there that lets you compete with them. At the same time, it was clear that things were moving into the cloud. So when we're thinking about open source licenses, obviously you could go all the way down to BSD license, it's just free, and that's great if you're, especially for a community project. But we had investors and things like that. So we need a way to have revenue eventually, we wanted a license with more like a copyleft. It's like GPL. But with everything moving into the cloud, the traditional GPL copyleft doesn't really work. So this was clear enough to us even in 2008. So we made the license AGPL. I think, it was one of the first projects that was AGPL, and it seemed like that was the right way to go at the time. And I felt like, I was CEO at the time, so I was pretty involved in the decision. So it seemed like, " Well, if it's a problem, we can always just dual license it and with another license that's more flexible." You can't go from a very-Michael Lynn: Permissive?Dwight Merriman: Yeah, permissive license to a less permissive license. But you can go the other way, because you could still keep the other license available if you liked it, and you don't want to even go read the new one. But then you could dual license and have something more permissive. So I thought we can always go more permissive, we can't go less permissive really. And then three years ago, we actually switched the license from AGPL to this new license called SSPL, Server Side Public license, which is, it's super similar to AGPL, but if you did a inaudible on it, it's only a couple sentences are different I think. But this was a big decision we didn't take lightly, because obviously all the old releases are still available on AGPL. So it was just on a forward basis, it's like, " Let's use this SSPL thing we came up with." Which is just basically saying if what you're building is just purely a database, like a general purpose database, then you're subject to the copyleft. And this was coming out of some analysis of AGPL, and it was not totally clear that it did what the original intent was, that it totally worked legally. So we thought we needed to do that. That did push the product and the license into a slightly gray area, where there's a classic definition of open source software. Which is, there's no restrictions on how you can use it. So with GPL, you triggered a copyleft by distribution. It's not how you're using it in your application with this, it's actually, well it sort of triggers on how you use it. So if you're doing something like Amazon RDS with the MongoDB source code, it would trigger.Michael Lynn: So it's offering it, offering your software as a service?Dwight Merriman: Yeah. Basically Mongo as a service, and if you offer that, you can do it with SSPL, but then you trigger the copyleft, and you have to release your code just like you did with GPL. So you could still do something like inaudible version of Mongo if you wanted it as a service. So it was really a response to things, where the cloud providers, not just Amazon, I'm not trying to pick on them, but with RDS, they're just taking every open source database, and they're making a nice wrapped management layer on it. But then it's like, no, we don't have any direct customers anymore And they wouldn't be paying us, I think. So that was the notion. So it gets gray then, and a purist might say, " Well, that's not open source." But I think in practice it's completely practical. If you're doing applications, you can definitely use it for free and without any encumbrances. So I think the whole notion of how we define open source, and the licenses inaudible, and the definition thereof, I think is, right now, it's in a transitional stage, where it needs to be iterated on. Because I love open source, but given these cloud models, and if you wanted to do anything that had a copyleft, it just doesn't, the old ones don't work anymore. So now we've seen, since we did that, many other projects have done similar things. And I think from some of the standards bodies, why we predict we're going to see some new things that are in the spirit of that. But were definitely not available when we thought we needed it, because we talked to them, and the speed of motion wasn't working for us. So I think in practice, basically nothing changes. You're making an app, you want to use MongoDB, you know you can use it for free. Your code is your code, you don't have to release it, or anything. You haven't triggered a copyleft there. In practice, I think it works great. But if you're an open source specialist, theorist, you write licenses and stuff, you might quibble.Lena Smart: That was fascinating.

Today on the show, Lena Smart, Chief Security Officer of MongoDB, and I team up to interview Dwight Merriman, co- founder and key contributor to MongoDB. Dwight Merriman is a true tech legend. In addition to co- founding and co- creating the MongoDB database and 10gen now called MongoDB, the company. He also co- founded and led several other well known successful companies including Business Insider, DoubleClick and Gilt Groupe. In today's interview, Dwight shares openly and honestly about the motivations behind creating the database, which now actually claims nearly half of the entire NoSQL market. He talks about the decision to build the database rather than use something that existed at the time.

Today, on the Jake Dunlap Show, we are joined by Ang McManamon, VP at Crunchbase and Global Sales and SaaS Leader with over 22 years of experience in the field.Ang has been leading the sales divisions for multiple companies that activate in different industries, from tech to real estate, IT and SaaS she kick-started the sales for the London division of Amazon, was the Director of Sales for North America at Stack Overflow and, in 2019, was selected as one of the 38 Most Dynamic Women in Sales. In this episode, Ang shares with us the experiences that helped her stay motivated and on a growth path in her sales career, how working in different industries refined her skills as a salesperson and the importance of building culture in the remote work environment as the key to keeping your team members engaged and present in their work. Time stamps: (00:52) Today's guest, Ang McManamon- one of the 38 Most Dynamic Women in Sales in 2019 who aspires to one day be an NYT Best Seller and speak in front of 1,000+ people;(02:12) Graduating with a Bachelor's in Communication, and working for an ad agency in New York; getting her first contact with the sales world after getting hired by City Search; (05:07) Learning how to deal with rejection and looking for ways to grow in her sales career;(10:09) Leaving City Search after almost 10 years of working with them, joining Gilt Groupe then HopStop and eventually becoming Global Head of Sales for Amazon Restaurants;(14:23) Moving to the UK and kickstarting Amazon's sales division in London;(15:21) Working for Stack Overflow as Sr. Director of Sales for the North America area- learning about the importance of work and sales culture;(17:26) Capturing as many growth opportunities as possible- working in different industries and refining her skills as a salesperson;(21:30) Venturing into SaaS- how she stayed motivated in her growth journey;(28:29) Building culture in a remote environment- engaging and helping her team members to be present in their work;(32:00) Advice for people who want to level up their careers in this today's unstable market. Quotes “Don't take everything so personal. That was a big learning moment (...) learning to deal with rejection in a way where like you don't want to dismiss it, you definitely want to feel it, you don't want it to ruin your momentum and your day.” “If you don't have a way to look at data, look at success, what's working what's not working, I feel like there's a lot of people that are reliant on other people's feedback and their boss of whoever to improve themselves (...) proper planning and thinking it through and entering your data for you, how can you get better if you don't know.” “I am a big stickler for good company culture but then also building a great sales culture (...) I want people to have fun and be really passionate about what they're selling (...) and just being happy because that will emulate with the people you talk to and your clients.” “ I think many times when things happen in our carrier maybe you feel derailed, certainly for me, my first two and a half years were in sports and I told my boss to f*** off and I got fired and I thought my life was over, and then I got into tech and it like changed my life forever (...) we all have these kinds of paths and we don't have to get it perfect, we don't have the ability to kind of recognize the learnings that we have until much later.” “What can I do better as a leader? What are actually the things that I can affect (...) and that is being a better leader, making my sales managers stronger leaders, you know, where are they lacking, what training do they need. I'm constantly thinking of that.” “ I want you to take an hour tomorrow, I want you to look at your calendar for the next month and I want you to think about challenges you're having and the things in your business or your personal life that you need to prioritize (...) because if not, you're just going to be on the (hamster) wheel. The wheel is not going to stop and tell you to get off.” ______________________________ Get in contact with Ang: LinkedinFacebookTwitterInstagram ______________________________ Mentions: Gilt Groupe- an off-price e-commerce portfolio company.Instagram | Facebook | Linkedin | Pinterest Tumbler- an American microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007.Facebook | Instagram Knotel- a workspace platform that matches, tailors, and manages real estate for businesses that are in need of spaces custom designed for their use. Linkedin | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Stack Overflow - is a question-and-answer website for professional and enthusiast programmers.Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin | Instagram ___________________ Follow Jake: WebsiteInstagramLinkedInTwitter

In this episode of Season 8 of The Mother Honestly Podcast, Take The Day Off, Powered by Splendid Spoon, Host Blessing Adesiyan is joined by Simmone Taitt who is the CEO and Founder of Poppy Seed Health, a telehealth app transforming the way we care for pregnant and postpartum people with 24/7 text access to doulas, midwives and nurses. On a mission to democratize accessibility, emotional support and well-being for all birthing people, Simmone comes to this work through the highly personal experience of navigating her own pregnancy loss in an inequitable medical system. Prior to Poppy Seed Health, Simmone spent thirteen years working on go-to-market strategies with early-stage startups Gilt Groupe, SpaFinder, and KidPass. She is a deep believer that technology can and should leverage its power to connect us all with radical empathy. Her work has been covered by The New York Times, CBS Mornings with Gayle King, Vogue and many more.ring them to be active agents in their wellness. In this value packed episode, Blessing and Simmone discuss the path to parenthood and the wonderful work that Poppy Seed Health does to support the multiplicity of that journey. They discuss the importance of taking the day off as it relates to the birthing journey and how nobody needs to give you permission to take the day off. They also talk about how the culture behind Poppy is rooted in radical empathy to destigmatize the often shameful, unseen and unheard experiences of birthing people.   This podcast is in partnership with Splendid Spoon. Visit www.splendidspoon.com and join us as we #DropTheGuilt #TakeTheDayOff  To become a Mother Honestly Member for only $97/yr, visit www.motherhonestly.com/membership and if you are a Company seeking support for your employees and their families, visit www.motherhonestly.com/atwork to provide real solutions at home and at work. Our upcoming Start To Flourish Summit is on November 4th. Visit www.flourish.motherhonestly.com to reserve your seat and learn more about how to get involved.  

After a 12-year career focus on social media marketing for Fortune 50 companies including PepsiCo, Disney, and General Electric, and with storied brands across European luxury houses including LVMH, Kering, Richemont, and Chanel, Gina Gretchko launched her own consultancy which helps brands define and scale their content strategies to execution. Most recently, Gina built a best-in-class social media practice from the ground up for Saks Fifth Avenue and the HBC umbrella of multi-brand retailers (Saks OFF 5th, Lord & Taylor, Gilt Groupe, Hudson's Bay). There, she partnered with executive leadership to introduce full-funnel social strategy, develop omni processes, establish critical cross-functional and platform relationships, as well as education and trust within the organization and its vendors. Skilled in synthesizing brand strategies into compelling narratives, Gina personally secured partnerships and produced custom content with Virgil Abloh, Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, Stella McCartney, Phillip Lim, Brandon Maxwell, Victoria Beckham, and Donatella Versace among many others. Her editorial direction and on-the-ground coverage for more than a dozen New York and European Fashion Weeks exceeded platform benchmarks and were emulated competitively. In this episode, Gina talks with Grace Liu about adapting to the sea change in what digital marketing has become over the course of her career.

Kevin Ryan is an investor and serial entrepreneur who has founded several businesses including Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, MongoDB, and Zola. He helped grow DoubleClick from 1996 to 2005, first as president and later as CEO. It was acquired by Google for $3.1 billion in March 2008. Kevin continues to found and invest in companies through AlleyCorp, a venture capital firm he founded in 2008.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER & STAY UPDATED > http://bit.ly/tfh-newsletterFOLLOW TFH ON INSTAGRAM > http://www.instagram.com/thefounderhourFOLLOW TFH ON TWITTER > http://www.twitter.com/thefounderhourINTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? EMAIL US > partnerships@thefounderhour.com

Melina Kemph is a NY-based Art Director and Stylist in both the fashion and food media space. After styling a Nike x NBA campaign (a dream project), Melina left her role as Sr. Men's Stylist at Gilt Groupe to establish her own business. Her client roster includes Kevin Knox, Robin Arzon, Nike, Puma, Pepsi, GQ, Zola, and most recently Waffles & Mochi Get Cooking, an opportunity that fell into her inbox after a food stylist found her pottery on instagram! On today's episode, Melina tells us about her journey to New York and her various jobs in fashion before she found her passion in styling, the way she fosters collaboration and good vibes while on set, how putting yourself out there gets you where you want to be, and more about her covid hobby, turned career extension which is giving her all the creative energy right now. Melina is a bright light! I hope you enjoy listening to her wonderful story. MORE MELINA: Instagram: instagram.com/melina.kemph/ Portfolio: melinakemph.com/ Honey Lain Studios: honeylainstudios.com/ MORE CREATIVE JUICY: Michelle's Instagram: instagram.com/mich_wainwright/ Visit CreativeJuicyPodcast.com for show notes, transcripts and more. Say hello to Michelle: creativejuicypodcast@gmail.com

In The Room with Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Co-Founder of Gilt Groupe, GLAMSQUAD, and Clerisy. In our final episode of the season, and 50th episode of The Room Podcast, Alexandra shares her experience breaking into the online retail fashion world with her smash hit, Gilt Groupe, alongside her partner, Alexis Maybank. Alexandra explains how she had limited merchandising experience but took advantage of the consumer ‘FOMO’ by creating the early forms of fashion brand “drops.” In this conversation, we cover themes such as the original “drop” model, what’s happening in Miami’s ‘Silicon Valley Beach’, and the adoption of Omni-channel 3.0. For The Room Podcast in your inbox every week, subscribe to our newsletter. 4:23 - Where did Alexandra grow up and how did that experience shape her view of the World?5:55 - Did Alexandra always think she would become a founder?7:35 - When Alexandra was at Harvard, were many people looking to become founders?10:03 - What was the retail climate like in 2007 when Alexandra started Gilt Groupe?13:05 - Did Alexandra realize she was creating the early stages of fashion brand “drops”?14:24 - What inspired Alexandra to structure Gilt Groupe in the way that it was?15:13 - Was it difficult pursuing larger purchase orders without having much retail fashion experience?18:32 - Who's the first person to say yes to Alexandra and Gilt Groupe?20:39 - What challenges did Alexandra face when building the robust catalog of items on Gilt?25:31 - Is Alexandra more or less bullish on the gig economy than she was when she founded Glamsquad in 2014?26:56 - What is the investment strategy of Clerisy? 29:44 - How is the technology ecosystem evolving in Alexandra’s new home city of Miami?32:07 - What do the next five years hold for commerce?33:54 - How is Alexandra thinking about the evolving tech world, especially in regard to Web3?36:38 - Who is a woman in Alexandra’s life that had a profound impact on her and her career? Be the first to know when new episodes drop - Receive Our Newsletter Season 5 of The Room Podcast is sponsored by our friends at Silicon Valley Bank and Cooley. WX Productions

We speak with Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Chief Executive Officer and co-Founder with SecurityScorecard, based in New York, USA. Aleksandr Yampolskiy is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert. As co-founder and chief executive officer, Yampolskiy has led the company since its beginnings in 2013 to become one of the world's most trusted cybersecurity brands. His vision is to create a new language for cybersecurity by enabling people to work collaboratively across the enterprise and with external parties to build a more secure ecosystem. Prior to founding the company, Yampolskiy was a hands-on CTO at Cinchcast and BlogTalkRadio, the largest online talk radio and podcast hosting platform. Prior to that, he led security and compliance at Gilt Groupe, where he managed all aspects of IT infrastructure security, secure application development, and PCI compliance. Yampolskiy has a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from New York University and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.We will be deep diving into the SecurityScorecard platform on Thursday, December 2, 2:00pm AEDT - register here https://mysecuritymarketplace.com/security-scorecard/Recorded courtesy of SecurityScorecard - 16 November, 2021

If you are an entrepreneur, the latest episode of The LAFS Podcast is just for you! An intimate conversation between our co-founder Estefanía Lacayo and serial entrepreneur Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder of several successes such as Gilt Groupe, GlamSquad, Fitz, and Clerisy. In this episode, Estefanía talks with Alexandra about the challenges when choosing a partner, the first steps to follow when raising capital, the keys for selling a company, the MUSTS in a DTC strategy, and everything about her new chapter as an investor. Don't miss this inspiring conversation!

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Co-founder of Gilt Groupe, GlamSquad, Fitz, and Clerisy Growth Fund, shares her secrets to scaling and exiting successfully. Gain insights into the mindset and strategies needed to build three successful companies, lead two to exits, and create a growth fund that focuses on helping companies scale, moderated by Claudia Duran, Managing Director at Endeavor Miami. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/endeavornorthamerica/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/endeavornorthamerica/support

We all know the potential value data can bring to businesses. But the potential to deliver that same data and value to external customers is often left untapped. Many companies today feel like they should be doing more with their data in service of their customers. Yet, they often struggle to unlock it and deliver it in a way that accounts for the end user's experience. As Co-Founder & CEO of TopCoat Data, Seth Rosen , sees this every day and believes approaching data with a product mindset can be the key to unlocking this untapped value. Seth joins us on the podcast to share how companies can build data products that win over customers and create real advantage over their competitors. At TopCoat, Seth and his team help companies and data teams everyday build customer-facing analytics products. Previously, Seth held senior product roles at Drync, Catalina, and LivingSocial. Seth was a co-founder at BuyWithMe.com, a leading social eCommerce company that competed with Groupon and LivingSocial, from January 2009 until it was sold to Gilt Groupe in November 2011. Prior to BuyWithMe, Seth was a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the System and Process Assurance group, working mainly with large financial institutions. In the episode, we cover a variety of topics including: Where Seth finds inspiration for his Twitter The problem Topcoat Data aims to solve The pitfalls of traditional BI tools  Modern data team looks more like software product development. The challenge in blending software development and data teams. Why companies treat their product data as an afterthought What a modern architecture looks like for your data product. Does every product ultimately become a data product? Why embedded analytics usually = a poor user experience Check out these resources that were mentioned in the show: Check out TopCoat Data Follow Seth on Twitter or connect with him on LinkedIn If you want to hear more, subscribe to Leading with Data on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or here. Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for Leading with Data in your favorite podcast player.

Connie & Alex talk tech news and then chat with Kevin Ryan - the serial entrepreneur and investor behind such startup successes as Gilt Groupe, Business Insider, and MongoDB - on why healthcare investing is the place to be.Music: 1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired)2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance)3. "Dream Catcher" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4650-dream-catcher)4. "Pamgaea" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4193-pamgaea)5. "EDM Detection Mode" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3687-edm-detection-mode)License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Deena Bahri is the Chief Marketing Officer at StockX, which is an online marketplace with a unique bid-ask model. StockX's special formula has rocketed the company to a recent multibillion-dollar valuation. Before joining StockX, Deena held marketing positions at Reebok, The Ladders.com, Gilt Groupe, Birchbox, Juicero, and Helix.In this episode, Deena discusses how StockX stays customer-centric and all the ways they listen to their consumers, fans, and employees on all levels. Deena also talks about StockX's roadmap from growing the business to growing the brand. This is a great episode about how brands can successfully scale while connecting with their users. Support our sponsor Deloitte and experience their guidance on resilience for brands in navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more at Deloitte.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

SummaryThis week Daniel is joined by Todd Schweikert, VP of Studio Production for Rue Gilt Groupe to discuss metrics and how to use them to support your team in day-to-day operations. Granular category level data in production can help you plan more accurately, but give you the ability to load balance when bottlenecks arise. Key TakeawaysUnderstanding what comes through your studio and how long it takes is invaluable data to run.Touch bases that rely on this data help keep teams on the same page and prevent silos from developing.Many of the ways the studio uses data come from the bottom up, ensuring that studio teams understand the information and how it impacts the operation of the studio.It's not enough to understand the data, but also what goes into it and how it's collected. Context is vital.Remember that your perspective is limited, and you need to include other perspectives to ensure across-the-board accountability.Performance metrics are a reflection of employee satisfaction.Links & ResourcesTodd Schweikert on LinkedInRue Gilt GroupeRue Gilt Groupe on LinkedinOpen Roles at Rue Gilt GroupeCreditsProduced by: Creative Force - creativeforce.ioEdited by: Calvin Lanz Sound - clsound.netHosted by: Daniel Jester - danieltjester.com

On today's show, BBG Ventures co-Founder and Managing Partner Susan Lyne speaks with LionTree & Kindred Media Executive in Residence Ariel Wengroff. BBGV is one of the most active investors in female-founded companies in the US. Susan's wealth of experience in the media and e-commerce space - which spans legendary New York City alt weekly the Village Voice through pioneering roles with Gilt Groupe, AOL and ABC Entertainment - has given her a unique perspective on which businesses and leaders to bet on. Tune in for keen insight on what the post-Covid venture space looks like.Find and rate KindredCast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. For more content, follow KindredCast on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. You can hear our radio show on SiriusXM Business Radio, channel 132 and on United Airlines. And you can find all of Kindred Media's podcasts and subscribe to our daily newsletter, “Take a Break with Kindred Media,” here (http://www.kindredmedia.com).Please read before listening: http://www.liontree.com/podcast-notices.html

I had the pleasure of speaking with Mae Karwowski, the founder and CEO of Obvious.ly, a leading global influencer-marketing agency and technology platform. Mae shares some amazing tips on working with influencers and how you can forge relationships to build your brand. She shares how to vet the instagram influencers and how to gage their engagement rate. Also suggests looking at how many sponsored posts they are doing, and how much engagement they actually get. Mae suggests looking at influencers you want to build a brand with. She suggests checking out a couple of influencers sites called Hype Auditor, Grin, and Klear (Now Izea), that might be able to help connect you with influencers.Under her leadership since she launched the agency in 2014, Obvious.ly has become the global standard of influencer marketing by providing the best full service client experience, managing complexity and scale of influencer work, and using data analysis to inform all strategies.With thousands of campaigns under her belt, Mae is a recognized expert on the influencer industry and has been widely quoted in the press, appearing in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, NPR, CNBC, and the Washington Post.Obviously’s clients include iconic brands such as Amazon, Ulta, Lyft, Google, Coca-Cola, and Hasbro, and in 2019, Mae won both the Campaign Female Frontier Award and the Adweek Fastest Growing Agency award.Before founding Obviously, Mae directed social media for Gilt City, part of Gilt Groupe, and oversaw social execution for clients such as Bravo, UGG, and Coca-Cola with the agency 360i. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's guest is Female Founders Fund portfolio founder, Shan-Lyn Ma of Zola, an online platform reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience. Anu and Shan discuss her experience learning from product experts during her time at Gilt Groupe and Yahoo!, how customer feedback has guided Zola's growth, and the future of events and weddings post-pandemic. Shan shares her best fundraising tips, how to expand beyond core product offerings, building a culture that encourages innovation, and much more!

Aleksandr Yampolskiy is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert. As co­founder and chief executive officer, Yampolsky has led the company since its beginnings in 2013 to become one of the world’s most trusted cybersecurity brands. His vision is to create a new language for cybersecurity by enabling people to work collaboratively across the enterprise and with external parties to build a more secure ecosystem. Prior to founding the company, Yampolskiy was a hands­on CTO at Cinchcast and BlogTalkRadio, the largest online talk radio and podcast hosting platform. Prior to that, he led security and compliance at Gilt Groupe, where he managed all aspects of IT infrastructure security, secure application development, and PCI compliance. Yampolskiy has a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from New York University and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.

In 2015, Rachel Drori saw a gap in the health and food industry and seized the moment to create something new that would change the way Americans ate daily. Drori founded Daily Harvest, a brand dedicated to making organic, healthy foods accessible and convenient—no matter your hectic work schedule. Since its launch, the brand has grown its offerings into 75 items across nine collections available nationwide that are prepackaged in 100% compostable and recyclable packaging and delivered directly onto your doorstep. On this episode of Second Life, find out how Drori used her past career in marketing at major companies such as Gilt Groupe and American Express to propel herself forward and build a brand that is making a difference.

Sarah Sheehan is the co-founder and President of Bravely - a company that connects individuals to on-demand confidential coaches to make life at work better for everyone. Bravely scales the individual support and critical skill development employees need to grow, thrive, and remain engaged at work. Sarah's diverse background in HR and as a sales leader made her passionate about helping companies build healthy cultures. Prior to Bravely, Sarah was an executive at Gilt City, serving as the Head of Sales and leading a 65-person sales team, after spending over a decade working in various HR roles at at SiriusXM, Coach, and Gilt Groupe.The Bo and Luke Show is on LinkedIn, Instagram & Facebook.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Liked the episode? Leave us a comment or send us an e-mail at fanfeedback@theboandlukeshow.com. Visit our website to learn about upcoming guests, purchase show merchandise or order a copy of Bo's book!If you are interested in being a guest on the show, send us an e-mail at info@theboandlukeshow.com today.This episode contains paid ads. The We As...Start Talking Podcast can be found here.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theboandlukeshow/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theboandlukeshow/supportSupport the show

Today, we're joined by Diana Kris Navarro.Diana is currently a software engineer at Tumblr. She was in the founding class of Girls Who Code in 2012, a hackNY fellow in 2017, and was featured in GWC’s Sisterh>>d campaign for Day of the Girl. She has previously interned at Adobe, Qualcomm and Gilt Groupe.Related Sites: Diana Kris Navarro's Q&A: https://www.womenofsiliconvalley.org/interviews/diana-kris-navarro Diana Kris Navarro's Website: https://dianakris.com/ Follow us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenofsiliconvalley/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WomenofSV Website: https://www.womenofsiliconvalley.org/

Today I’m joined by Byron Ling of Canaan Partners.    In this episode, we discuss Byron’s investments in companies like Mirror, Ro, Papa, and Uniform Teeth. His insights on building a consumer brand in the healthcare space. And what we should look out for as fitness, wellness, and healthcare converge.    About Byron    Byron is a Partner at Canaan focusing on consumer and digital health investing. His investments include Papa, Ro, Uniform Teeth, Kin Euphorics, and Bravo Sierra. He was previously an investor at Primary Venture Partners, leading investments in companies such as Mirror and K Health. Prior to venture capital, he was an early employee at Gilt Groupe, helping scale the flash sale e-commerce company from product-market fit through the growth stage. Byron holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Economics from Case Western Reserve University.   More from Fitt Insider    Fitt Insider is a weekly newsletter and podcast about the business of fitness and wellness.    From product launches and funding news to game-changing innovation, Fitt Insider provides listeners with insights and analysis on this ever-evolving industry.    Join your peers and colleagues from companies like Equinox, Apple, Peloton, Goldman Sachs, Nike, and ClassPass by subscribing.   Website:  http://insider.fitt.co

This week, we’re excited to bring you the first episode of Startup Spotlight – a recurring series where we speak with early-stage founders working on fitness and wellness startups.    We usually focus on established companies, operators, and inventors — and we’ll continue bringing you those conversations most weeks.    But, from time to time, we’re highlight companies at the beginning of their journey.    Today I’m joined by Cam Porter — the Founder and CEO of Core.    Core is making it easy for fitness instructors to create a branded digital experience across iOS, Android, and the web. The company’s content and client management tools help instructors launch and scale their business.    In this episode, we discuss the current state of digital fitness, the disconnect between fitness and health, empowering instructors to build an online business, and the challenges Core is working through to get a product to market.    A quick note on today’s episode, Anthony and I working with Cam and the Core team in an advisory role. We’re excited to play a small part in helping fitness instructors grow their businesses.    More from Cam   Cameron Porter is the founder and CEO of Core, the most recent incubation to come out of the NYC based venture studio, AlleyCorp, best known for its past incubations that include; MongoDB (MDB), BusinessInsider, Gilt Groupe, Zola, and many more. Prior to leading Core, Cameron worked as a Venture Architect at AlleyCorp where he helped to launch companies in spaces ranging from renewable energy food truck fleets to prescription digital therapeutics. His path the venture world was not a traditional one. Cameron dropped out Princeton when he was drafted into Major League Soccer. While playing professionally, Cameron also worked with the league’s front office as a software engineer. Through all of it, he has maintained a deep passion for how people relate to their bodies and hopes that his work can help people get a little closer to arete — fulfillment through the mind, body, and soul.   About Core: Core enables fitness instructors to launch, scale, and grow their business. To do this, Core provides a one-stop-shop for content and client management that powers the instructor’s own branded experience across iOS, Android, and web. You set the prices. You own the content. You own the customers. It’s your business powered by Core.   Learn more: https://www.core.fitness/   More from Fitt Insider    Fitt Insider is a weekly newsletter and podcast about the business of fitness and wellness.    From product launches and funding news to game-changing innovation, Fitt Insider provides listeners with insights and analysis on this ever-evolving industry.    Join your peers and colleagues from companies like Equinox, Apple, Peloton, Goldman Sachs, Nike, and ClassPass by subscribing.   Website:  http://insider.fitt.co

Under her leadership, since she launched the agency in 2014, Obviously has become the global standard of influencer marketing by providing the best full-service client experience, managing the complexity and scale of influencer work, and using data analysis to inform all strategies.With thousands of campaigns under her belt, Mae is a recognized expert on the influencer industry and has been widely quoted in the press, appearing in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, NPR, CNBC, and the Washington Post.Obviously’s clients include iconic brands such as Amazon, Ulta, Lyft, Google, Coca-Cola, and Hasbro, and in 2019, Mae won both the Campaign Female Frontier Award and the Adweek Fastest Growing Agency award. Before founding Obviously, Mae directed social media for Gilt City, part of Gilt Groupe, and oversaw social execution for clients such as Bravo, UGG, and Coca-Cola with the agency 360i.Mae graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor’s in Philosophy. She lives in Manhattan and loves anything that has to do with a Corgi.Learn More: http://obvious.lyInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/interview-with-mae-karwowski-founder-and-ceo-of-obviously-a-leading-global-influencer-marketing-agency-and-technology-platform

Under her leadership, since she launched the agency in 2014, Obviously has become the global standard of influencer marketing by providing the best full-service client experience, managing the complexity and scale of influencer work, and using data analysis to inform all strategies.With thousands of campaigns under her belt, Mae is a recognized expert on the influencer industry and has been widely quoted in the press, appearing in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, NPR, CNBC, and the Washington Post.Obviously’s clients include iconic brands such as Amazon, Ulta, Lyft, Google, Coca-Cola, and Hasbro, and in 2019, Mae won both the Campaign Female Frontier Award and the Adweek Fastest Growing Agency award. Before founding Obviously, Mae directed social media for Gilt City, part of Gilt Groupe, and oversaw social execution for clients such as Bravo, UGG, and Coca-Cola with the agency 360i.Mae graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor’s in Philosophy. She lives in Manhattan and loves anything that has to do with a Corgi.Learn More: http://obvious.lyInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/interview-with-mae-karwowski-founder-and-ceo-of-obviously-a-leading-global-influencer-marketing-agency-and-technology-platform

Under her leadership, since she launched the agency in 2014, Obviously has become the global standard of influencer marketing by providing the best full-service client experience, managing the complexity and scale of influencer work, and using data analysis to inform all strategies.With thousands of campaigns under her belt, Mae is a recognized expert on the influencer industry and has been widely quoted in the press, appearing in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, NPR, CNBC, and the Washington Post.Obviously’s clients include iconic brands such as Amazon, Ulta, Lyft, Google, Coca-Cola, and Hasbro, and in 2019, Mae won both the Campaign Female Frontier Award and the Adweek Fastest Growing Agency award. Before founding Obviously, Mae directed social media for Gilt City, part of Gilt Groupe, and oversaw social execution for clients such as Bravo, UGG, and Coca-Cola with the agency 360i.Mae graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor’s in Philosophy. She lives in Manhattan and loves anything that has to do with a Corgi.Learn More: http://obvious.lyInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/interview-with-mae-karwowski-founder-and-ceo-of-obviously-a-leading-global-influencer-marketing-agency-and-technology-platform

Under her leadership, since she launched the agency in 2014, Obviously has become the global standard of influencer marketing by providing the best full-service client experience, managing the complexity and scale of influencer work, and using data analysis to inform all strategies.With thousands of campaigns under her belt, Mae is a recognized expert on the influencer industry and has been widely quoted in the press, appearing in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, NPR, CNBC, and the Washington Post.Obviously’s clients include iconic brands such as Amazon, Ulta, Lyft, Google, Coca-Cola, and Hasbro, and in 2019, Mae won both the Campaign Female Frontier Award and the Adweek Fastest Growing Agency award. Before founding Obviously, Mae directed social media for Gilt City, part of Gilt Groupe, and oversaw social execution for clients such as Bravo, UGG, and Coca-Cola with the agency 360i.Mae graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor’s in Philosophy. She lives in Manhattan and loves anything that has to do with a Corgi.Learn More: http://obvious.lyInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/interview-with-mae-karwowski-founder-and-ceo-of-obviously-a-leading-global-influencer-marketing-agency-and-technology-platform

Kathryn Ordower works for one of the hottest beauty brands on the market. As the VP of Legal Affairs at Glossier, she has helped the company transform into the powerhouse we all know today. Prior to Glossier, Kathryn served on the legal team at the Gilt Groupe and has held roles in legal at both a law firm and start-ups. Kathryn discusses her unconventional career path to success and how a Theater and English double major was able to pursue her passions and find her niche that took years to discover.

SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over a million companies continuously rated. SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 1,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their externally facing digital footprint. SecurityScorecard is the only provider of instant risk ratings that automatically map to vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses - providing a true 360-degree view of risk. But, I wanted to learn more about the story behind the company and their recent Presidential candidates get smart cybersecurity report. Aleksandr Yampolskiy is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert. As co-founder and chief executive officer, Yampolskiy has led the company since its beginnings in 2013 to become one of the world’s most trusted cybersecurity brands. His vision is to create a new language for cybersecurity by enabling people to work collaboratively across the enterprise and with external parties to build a more secure ecosystem. Prior to founding the company, Yampolskiy was a hands-on CTO at Cinchcast and BlogTalkRadio, the largest online talk radio and podcast hosting platform. Prior to that, he led security and compliance at Gilt Groupe, where he managed all aspects of IT infrastructure security, secure application development, and PCI compliance. Yampolskiy has a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from New York University and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.

an expert in fashion e-commerce with a lifelong passion for classic hip-hop, JAMIE NAGUIAT was destined for his current role as the head of LL COOL J'S ROCK THE BELLS commerce platform. with over a decade of heading mega-marketplace sites under his belt, from GILT GROUPE to FARFETCH, JAMIE drops by the studio to share stories of his full-circle journey. this is NARRATIVE - let's start the conversation. www.narrative.today IG: @narrative.today email: whatsthe@narrative.today --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

As the co-founder of Gilt Groupe, one of the first flash-sale sites in the U.S., Alexandra Wilkis Wilson brought the excitement of a New York sample sale to the online world in 2007. From there, she launched and was the CEO of GlamSquad, the on-demand in-home beauty services app. Now the SVP of Consumer Strategy and Innovation at Allergan, her job is to build new digital ventures, including Spotlyte and Regi. Learn how Alexandra asks for what she wants, sets goals, and continues to innovate.

In this episode:◇ Gap Inc wants to grow Hill City organically, and its developing its blueprint for incubating future businesses.◇ Amazon will have grocery stores - separate from Whole Foods, by year's end.◇ Simon Property Group took a 50% stake in Gilt Groupe and launched ShopPremiumOutlets.com.

On today's episode of Gritty Founder, Kreig Kent talks with Michael Bryzek about how his parents and childhood influenced him to become an entrepreneur. Michael shares the importance of positivity and believing that nothing is impossible. Michael is the co-founder and CTO of Flow Commerce, a technology platform to make global ecommerce as simple as domestic. Previously, he was the co-founder and ex-CTO of Gilt Groupe, an innovative online shopping destination offering great products at insider prices. He holds a BSc and Masters in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is married with two young boys and a recent ironman distance triathlete. Some Questions Kreig Asks Michael: - How did you get the idea for the first business you started? (26:38) - What is some advice that you can give on entrepreneurship? (30:26) - What advice would you give entrepreneurs who are just starting out? (40:19) - How do you hire amazing people, and how did you motivate them to see your vision for the company? (42:24) - Have you ever felt paralyzed by fear? (47:47) In This Episode, You Will Learn: - How Michael’s parents and childhood influenced him to become an entrepreneur (4:44) - The amazing story of how Michael’s family escaped communism in Poland and came to the US (13:54) - You cannot prove that something is impossible (23:00) - The importance of optimism and surrounding yourself with positive people that support you (30:54) - Success does not come without hard work and stress (39:23) - Find your core value system and your own style of working (40:34) - Create an environment where your employees can feel successful in both their work and personal lives (42:44) Connect with Michael Bryzek: Twitter Flow.io Also Mentioned on This Show... Michael’s favorite quote: “Failure is a mandatory component of success.” Michael’s book recommendations: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Only the most accomplished guests on the world's most inconsistent podcast. This week our hosts welcome Diana Kris Navarro, who was part of the first class of Girls Who Code. We discuss why Jeremy Lin's NBA championship means nothing, Diana's growing up in two communities and having to code switch, being a part of Girls Who Code, spills the tea on working in Tech, and more! Diana is 23y/o NYC based Filipina engineer and activist. She was part of the first class of Girls Who Code and since then she's worked at Gilt Groupe, Qualcomm, Adobe, has coded at Tumblr. Follow Diana on IG: @dianakris and Twitter: @_dianakris her webside: http://www.dianakris.com/ Find out more about Girls Who Code at https://girlswhocode.com/ IG and Twitter: @girlswhocode The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

Hudson's Bay Company CEO Helena Foulkes talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at An Evening With Code Commerce in Las Vegas. In this episode: Yep, Foulkes was considered for the Uber CEO job; her background at CVS; how she came to Hudson's Bay; why she sold its European department stores, Gilt Groupe, and Home Outfitters; the importance of making retail shopping an experience; how Foulkes is rethinking Saks Off Fifth; "you can never out-Amazon Amazon"; how do physical retail stores use data?; and what will the store of the future look like? Subscribe to Casey Newton's newsletter, The Interface, at theverge.com/interface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2015, Rachel Drori was hangry. Working at Gilt Groupe, she didn’t have enough time to recipe plan and cook healthy meals every single day. Come 3 p.m., she’d grab whatever was available for convenience sake—like a bar or trail mix—instead of putting good, clean food into her body. She felt totally depleted, and to make matters worse, was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder called Hashimito’s disease. In episode 44, she talks to me about this #hurdlemoment which encouraged her to start smart meal prepping and eating healthier, enabling her to manage her disease, forgo prescription medication, and concept a brand new company. Today, farm-frozen favorite Daily Harvest has expanded to more than 50 recipes including smoothies, harvest bowls, oat bowls, chia bowls, soups, activated lattes, and cookies (yes, please). Rachel dishes on the truth behind the fruits and vegetables you see in the grocery store, how she manages to run a 100-person company while raising her two boys, and explains what a “shiggle” is. SOCIAL @dailyharvest @racheldrori @hurdlepodcast @emilyabbate OFFERS Athletic Greens | Head to athleticgreens.com/hurdle to get 20 free travel packs ($99 value) with your first purchase, no code necessary. Headspace | Head to heaspace.com/hurdle to get 30-day free trial of the entire Headspace library, no code necessary. Daily Harvest | Head to daily-harvest.com to get $25 off your first box using the code “HURDLE” at checkout. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hurdle/message

In the Know has Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) meeting Kevin Ryan, the father of many big name start ups in NYC (Gilt Groupe, Business Insider and MongoDB to name a few), to discuss the future of blockchain, and the supply

Dr. Yampolskiy is a recognized expert in the security field. He is CEO of SecurityScorecard, the leader in security ratings, used by hundreds of customers like GE, McDonalds, Pepsi, AllState, AIG, Bank of NY Mellon, and others. Before founding Security Scorecard, he was the CISO at Gilt Groupe, and has held lead technologist and security roles at Goldman Sachs, Oracle, Cinchcast, and Microsoft. Yampolskiy is a published author and active speaker in the security and software development communities. He has a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.

Serial entrepreneurship and moving into medical aesthetics… Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, entrepreneur and cofounder of Gilt Groupe, GlamSquad, and Fitz, and who currently leads a digital ventures team, helping to disrupt the aesthetics industry, at Allergan USA, Inc., including digital editorial hub Spotlyte, joins Regina Gwynn, Karen Moon, Abby Wallach, and April Franzino in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser.In this episode: Wilkis Wilson on learning Focused on at Allergan medical aesthetics Created moonwalker, consumer and digitally oriented – spotlight a content site targeting consumers Preventative care at earlier ages 40M Americans considerers of medical aesthetics Botox uses Resources about providers Medical aesthetics division Botox, coolsculpting, etc Why this role is now created, and bringing Spotlyte into forefront Where Wilkis Wilson’s interest in beauty came from GlamSquad, Gilt, etc. Beauty was hard, not an industry open to discounting, sensitive to gray market activity Changing to focus on launch of beauty products Gilt City found success with beauty related products The value of feedback while building a business and product, and being transparent with team Taking an agile learning approach Building a culture in a company or team A sense of entrepreneurial failure if feeling like not giving value A secluded island, a Brazilian adventure, and JetBlack, podcasts, and LinkedIn The post 061 – Alexandra Wilkis Wilson of Allergan – Entrepreneurial Beauty appeared first on Beauty Is Your Business.

Few tech entrepreneurs have created a billion-dollar company. Kevin Ryan, has created not one but multiple billion-dollar companies. Ryan co-founded DoubleClick, which went public and then sold to Google for $3.1 billion; MongoDB, recently did an IPO with another billion dollar valuation; Gilt Groupe, sold for $250M and Business Insider recently got acquired for $450M. In a new episode of the DealMakers podcast Kevin Ryan shares the formula to create multiple billion dollar companies and the different factors to take into consideration.

Shan-Lyn Ma is the co-founder and CEO of Zola, the fastest growing wedding registry and planning site in the U.S. Before Zola, Shan-Lyn was the chief product officer of chloe + isabel, and an executive at Gilt Groupe. In this episode, we cover a wide range of topics, including Shan-Lyn's experience growing up in Australia, discovering the Internet at a young age, and eventually moving to the U.S. to go to Stanford and pursue her dreams as a technology entrepreneur. We also discuss the many lessons Shan-Lyn learned in product and strategy at Yahoo and Gilt Groupe, her recent activity as an angel investor and LP, and how she brings all of these experiences to bear in her day-to-day running Zola.

Pioneering the world of online sample sales and on-demand beauty, we have to thank no other than the serial entrepreneur and co-founder behind behind Gilt Groupe, GlamSquad and Fitz - Alexandra Wilkis Wilson.  Alexandra speaks to her experiences launching start-ups and shares advice for budding entrepreneurs looking to explore their passions.  In this episode of Beauty Bosses, Dr. Lara Devgan talks to Alexandra about her success journey, and how her mother and grandmother shaped her idea that happy people are beautiful, and beauty comes from within.

Pioneering the world of online sample sales and on-demand beauty, we have to thank no other than the serial entrepreneur and co-founder behind behind Gilt Groupe, GlamSquad and Fitz - Alexandra Wilkis Wilson. Alexandra speaks to her experiences launching start-ups and shares advice for budding entrepreneurs looking to explore their passions. In this episode of Beauty Bosses, Dr. Lara Devgan talks to Alexandra about her success journey, and how her mother and grandmother shaped her idea that happy people are beautiful, and beauty comes from within.

Have you always wondered what it takes to launch a purpose-driven, nonprofit organization? Then listen to this special interview Kim Dawson interviews Amy Dietrich and Jamy Barton, twin sisters who launched 28 Days Project to help women have access to affordable feminine care products. Learn more about their mission and support them at https://www.28daysproject.org/ Guest Bios: Jamy Barton is the Sr. Director of Tech Diversity at Audible Inc., the world's largest seller and producer of downloadable audiobooks and audio entertainment, where she focuses on optimizing the Tech organization's approach to hiring, developing, and motivating technical talent across the full human spectrum. Passionate about technology and the people who build it, Ms. Barton's professional experience includes more than twenty years in product and program management at leading technology and e-commerce firms such as Yahoo Finance, Real Simple, Gilt Groupe. Ms. Barton is co-founder and Board President of 28 Days and is a Sustaining Member of the Junior League of the Oranges & Short Hills where she has also served on the board as the VP of Fundraising. Ms. Barton resides in Short Hills, NJ with her husband David and two feisty cats. You can connect with Jamy on LinkedIn or follow her on Twitter @jamybarton. Amy Dietrich is co-founder and Vice Chair of 28 Days. In this leadership role, she is focused on removing the financial and emotional stress of managing a period and creating opportunities for women and girls to pursue educational, athletic, career, and personal goals. She works directly with volunteers on fundraising and strategic programs that support minority populations, urban and rural poverty, and women who are the victims of abuse and homelessness. Ms. Dietrich's professional experience includes more than twenty years in corporate communications and human resources roles at Fortune 500 companies. From 2018-2020, Ms. Dietrich is serving in an elected municipal government role as Councilwoman in Peapack-Gladstone in Somerset County, New Jersey. She has responsibility for legislative decisions in the municipality. Additional volunteer experience includes current Board roles with the Urban League of Morris County, the Peapack-Gladstone Historic Preservation Commission, and the Peapack-Gladstone Open Space Advisory Commission. Ms. Dietrich is a graduate of Bloomsburg University with a B.A. in History and Seton Hall University with an M.A. in Corporate Communications. She lives in Gladstone, NJ with her husband and two teen-age sons. She can be found on Twitter @DietrichAmy1.

Rachel Drori is the Founder & CEO at Daily Harvest, the direct-to-consumer brand that delivers real, unprocessed, unrefined foods in the most convenient format possible: frozen. Prior to starting Daily Harvest, Rachel harnessed her skills as a customer-centric marketing executive, leading teams at Gilt Groupe, American Express, and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.

Rachel Drori is the Founder & CEO @ Daily Harvest, the direct-to-consumer brand that delivers real, unprocessed, unrefined foods in the most convenient format possible: frozen. To date, they have raised over $43m in funding from the likes of former guest Alex Taussig @ Lightspeed, Collaborative Fund and future 20VC guest Beth Ferreira who sits on the board. As for Rachel, prior to starting Daily Harvest, Rachel harnessed her skills as a customer-centric marketing executive, leading teams at Gilt Groupe, American Express, and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Rachel made her way from the corporate world of American Express and The Four Seasons to founding Daily harvest, looking to change the eating habits of millions? 2.) Why did Rachel decide to deliberately raise small Seed and Series A rounds? What does Rachel believe these capital constraints allow companies in the early days? How did Rachel prioritize where to spend and where not to? How would Rachel advise emerging startup founders when it comes to capital efficiency today? 3.) Rachel recently raised $43m Series B, how did Rachel see the rounds differ from round to round? Why does Rachel believe it is imperative to VC date before the fundraising process begins? Why was Rachel's Series A very unconventional in the modern world of fundraising? What did Rachel look for most in the investors she chose from round to round? How is that different considering her single founder status? 4.) Question from Alex Taussig: How has Rachel seen the NYC ecosystem develop and evolve since the founding of Daily Harvest? Would Rachel agree that there remains a lack of early stage conviction investors in NYC? What are NYC's biggest strengths and then biggest weaknesses? 5.) Rachel has said before, "fake it till you make it" when was the last time Rachel did this and what was the outcome? Rachel also said previously, "ask for forgiveness not permission", when was the most recent occassion of this and what did it result in? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Rachel’s Fave Book: Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food: Volume 1 As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Rachel on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Leesa is the Warby Parker or TOMS shoes of the mattress industry. Leesa have done away with the terrible mattress showroom buying experience by creating a luxury premium foam mattress that is ordered completely online and ships for free to your doorstep. The 10-inch mattress comes in all sizes and is engineered with 3 unique foam layers for a universal, adaptive feel, including 2 inches of memory foam and 2 inches of a really cool latex foam called Avena, design to keep you cool. All Leesa mattresses are 100% US or UK made and for every 10 mattresses they sell, they donate one to a shelter. Go to Leesa.com to start the New Year with better nights sleep! Zoom, fastest growing video and web conferencing service, providing one consistent enterprise experience that allows you to engage in an array of activities including video meetings and webinars, collaboration-enabled conference rooms, and persistent chat all in one easy platform. Plus, it is the easiest solution to manage, scale, and use, and has the most straightforward, affordable pricing. Don’t take our word for it. Zoom is the top rated conferencing app across various user review sites including G2Crowd and Trust Radius. And you can sign up for a free account (not a trial!). Just visit Zoom.us.

In this episode of the Tony Robbins Podcast, we’re wrapping up our Business Mastery Panelists series with a woman who changed the way millions of people shop, and the way million of women get ready – Alexandra Wilkis Wilson. Wilkis Wilson was one of the co-founders of Gilt Groupe - the members-only flash sale site for the most coveted fashion brands. She also served as CEO of Glamsquad, the NYC-based startup that offers on-demand hair and makeup services. And she even started a mobile makeover service called Fitz that helped customers give their wardrobe a fresh start. It’s fashion and beauty - revolutionized. And at Business Mastery, Tony spoke to Alexandra about each of these companies and how she helped build them into businesses that thrive - even during economic winters. They dig into the secret behind Gilt’s growth, how critical it is to build trust, but still move quickly, and why women have unique advantages when it comes to customer acquisition strategy.

Susan Lyne dropped out of college and lived in a commune. She wrote for magazines and founded her own movie magazine. She green-lighted Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and The Bachelor while leading ABC Entertainment. She led Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia while Martha was in prison. She led Gilt Groupe to financial success during the recession. And she's now helping female founders through a fund called Built by Girls, or BBG. On this episode of "Success! How I Did It," Lyne spoke with Business Insider's senior strategy reporter Richard Feloni about how she's made an impact on a wide range of industries.

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson is a serial entrepreneur known for co-founding Gilt Groupe and and GlamSquad, and a NYTimes bestselling author. With her new venture, Fitz, she has created an in-home service that organizes your closet, edits your wardrobe and offers personalized style recommendations, helping you 'buy less, choose well, make it last.' (Vivienne Westwood)

Shan-Lyn Ma is the CEO and Co-founder of Zola.com. Zola.com is the all-in-one wedding registry that is transforming how couples and guests share, buy, and ship wedding gifts. Before founding Zola, Shan-Lyn was a senior product marketing manager at Yahoo! After that, Shan-Lyn became the senior director of product management for Gilt Groupe and eventually became the Founder of Gilt Taste. After moving on from Gilt Groupe, she became the Chief Product Officer at Chloe and Isabel Inc. www.zola.com — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process. — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride.

Why is hiring so important under for compliance? It is because hiring is important to any company’s health and reputation. At this point, until the US Supreme Court tells us that a corporation is the same as a human being, with both obligations and rights; a company is only as strong as its employees. Like most areas of compliance good hiring practices for those employees who will do business in compliance with anti-corruption laws such as the FCPA are simply good business practice. I have seen one industry estimate, it costs an average of roughly $4,000 to replace a single employee, and one survey of 2,500 companies found that a single bad hire can cost more than $25,000 in lost productivity, lower morale and the like. For one of the energy services company where I worked this estimate went as high as $400,000 to hire and fully train a new employee. I would add that those costs could go up significantly if a bad hire violates the FCPA. As far back as 2004, in Opinion Release 04-02, the Department of Justice (DOJ) realized this was an important part of an overall compliance program when it approved a proposed compliance program that had the following requirement: Clearly articulated procedures which ensure that discretionary authority is not delegated to persons who the company knows have a propensity to engage in illegal or improper activities. One tool which that is often overlooked in the hiring process is the reference check. Many practitioners feel that a reference is not of value because prospective candidates will only list references that they believe will provide glowing recommendations of character. This leads to a pro forma reference check. However, in an article in Harvard Business Review (HBR), entitled “Gilt Groupe’s CEO on Building a Team of A Players”, author Kevin Ryan explodes this misconception by detailing how he views the entire hiring process and specifically checking references. I would add that it could be a valuable and useful tool for you and your compliance program. In the hiring of personnel, Ryan details the three steps his company takes: (1) Resume review; (2) In-Person interview; and (3) Reference checks. Ryan believes that resumes are good for establishing “basic qualifications for the job, but not for much else.” He believes that the primary problem with in-person interviews is that they are skewed in favor of “persons who are well spoken [or] present well.” For Ryan, the key check is through references and he says, “References are really the only way to learn these things?” Ryan recognizes that many people believe that reference checks are not of great value because companies cannot or will not give out much more information than confirming dates of employment. However, he also believes that “the way around it is to dig up people who will speak candidly.” He also recognizes that if you only speak to the references listed on a resume or other application, you may not receive the most robust appraisal. Ryan responds that the answer is to put in the work to check out references properly. Ryan believes this is one of the key strengths of search firms and that companies should emulate this practice when it comes to reference checks. He notes that anyone who has worked in an industry for any significant length of time will have made many connections. Invariably some of these connections will be acquainted with you or those in your current, and former, company. Ryan gave the following example: A longtime friend who was employed at another company called and said that he had been asked by his hiring partner to find out “the real story” on a hiring candidate by asking Ryan his candid opinion of the candidate. Ryan’s response was “Don’t hire him.” Lest you think that such refreshing honesty no longer exists when informal employment references are provided, you are mistaken. In my past corporate position, I was charged with performing compliance due diligence on senior executives and I spent time doing what Ryan suggested, calling acquaintances that I knew and asking such direct questions. More than 75% of the time, I got direct responses. Ryan believes that you must invest your company in the hiring process to get the right people for your company. The same is true in compliance. You do not want people with a propensity for engaging in corrupt acts working for, or leading, your company. Moreover, failure to prevent such hires can be evidence of an not effective compliance program and lack of appropriate commitment to compliance at your company. The hiring of someone who will perform business activities in compliance with anti-corruption laws such as the FCPA will continue to be as much art as science because the hiring of quality employees for senior management positions is similarly situated. But that does not mean a company cannot work to not hire those persons who might have a propensity to engage in bribery and corruption if the situation presented itself. The hiring process is just one more tool that can be utilized to build an effective and operationalized compliance program. Three Key Takeaways The hiring process can be seen as the first step in operationalizing your compliance program. The DOJ spoke to hiring as part of a best practices compliance program as far back as 2004. Reference checks are an underutilized part of the hiring process and a key internal HR control. This month’s series is sponsored by Advanced Compliance Solutions and its new service offering the “Compliance Alliance” which is a three-step program that will provide you and your team a background into compliance and the FCPA so you can consider how your product or service fits into the needs of a compliance officer. It includes a FCPA and compliance boot camp, sponsorship of a one-month podcast series, and in-person training. Each section builds on the other and provides your customer service and sales teams with the knowledge they need to have intelligent conversations with compliance officers and decision makers. When the program is complete, your teams will be armed with the knowledge they need to sell and service every new client. Interested parties should contact Tom Fox.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're bringing back and oldie, but a goodie! Listen to our interview with Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Co-Founder of Gilt Groupe and current CEO of Glamsquad, an on-demand, app-based beauty provider delivering professional and affordable hair, makeup and nails services to your home, office, hotel, or wherever you may be. Alexandra gives Jeremy the inside scoop on what she learned while building Gilt Groupe and what's it's like to be the matriarch of the "Glam Fam" at Glamsquad.

Kevin Ryan, co-founder of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Gilt Groupe (among others), speaks with Nick Beim at Venrock about building teams and what to look for in a VC. Ryan advocates taking risks as an entrepreneur, even if it leads to a failure or two. You can learn a lot from unsuccessful ventures and it prepares you for the next thing. They also discuss how entrepreneurial optimism is essential as there will always be rejection and bumps along the way, but it can also cloud judgement when it comes to an exit opportunity. Overconfidence may make you want to pass up a good deal when it comes along.  Ultimately, you have to have fun. It’s what keeps you going.

MongoDB—an open source database company that focuses on helping companies manage their data—is just one of the several companies that Dwight has successfully launched. He is also the co-founder of Doubleclick, the ad serving platform (acquired by Google for $3.1Bn); Gilt Groupe, the online fashion company; Business Insider, the news web platform, among others. Dwight […]

This week we have one of the best known entrepreneurs in America, Kevin Ryan. Kevin has founded several successful companies, including Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, Zola, and MongoDB. He also built DoubleClick into a multi-billion dollar enterprise that was later acquired by Google. If you have any inkling of starting your own business, you wanna listen closely to Kevin, because in this conversation, we discuss everything from how to pitch an investor like him, to how to hire the right talent. Kevin also talks about what it was like to sell his latest company, Business Insider for almost $450 million. Learn more and subscribe to the podcast: Radiate Home - www.radiateinc.com/ Itunes - bit.ly/RadiatePodcast Google Play - bit.ly/PodcastRadiate Stitcher - bit.ly/radiate-stitcher

This week we have one of the best known entrepreneurs in America, Kevin Ryan. Kevin has founded several successful companies, including Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, Zola, and MongoDB. He also built DoubleClick into a multi-billion dollar enterprise that was later acquired by Google. If you have any inkling of starting your own business, you wanna listen closely to Kevin, because in this conversation, we discuss everything from how to pitch an investor like him, to how to hire the right talent. Kevin also talks about what it was like to sell his latest company, Business Insider for almost $450 million.

Toby Hervey is part of the founding team of Pager, a mobile app and service providing high-quality healthcare on demand through doctor house calls, where he oversees operations, partnerships and marketing strategy. Previously, Toby directed strategy and business development for several early-stage, high-growth companies: Waywire, a video-based social network founded by Senator Cory Booker (then Mayor of Newark) which sold to Magnify.net in 2013; Timehop, a digital time capsule mobile app that recently raised a $10mm Series B round; and at the Gilt Groupe, as a founding team member of local services arm Gilt City and menswear vertical Gilt MAN. He received his B.S. in International Politics at Georgetown University. www.pager.com twitter.com/@tobyhervey twitter.com/@getpager 00:00 Toby discusses being the General Manager of Pager, and what Pager is.01:00 How Pager works as an Urgent Care Service that operates remotely.01:45 How the company came up with the name ‘Pager'.03:35 The “why” behind creating Pager and making Urgent Care available to patients within their homes.05:15 Pager's start with a consumer-focused aspect, and its expansion into the provider space.07:00 What using the Pager app looks like.08:50 Pager's prices for users, what that price includes, and Pager's reimbursement plan.12:50 Pager's vision for improving the current healthcare industry and bringing better care to patients.14:00 How Pager works with providers to build mutual expectations about the service that Pager delivers.17:00 “All the patient care and none of the bureaucracy.”17:45 The advantages from a business perspective for a health system using Pager.23:30 How giving providers more time with patients and proactively screening for causes of future big expenses for health systems is allowing Pager to become a cost-effective solution.24:15 The types of organizations interested in what Pager is doing.25:50 The organizations that Pager sees the most hesitation from.28:30 The rise in businesses like telemedicine to fill the needs and wants of this generation of healthcare seekers.29:20 What Toby means when he discusses “Transactional Medicine”.34:30 “What we're building here is telemedicine with the option of in person care for the patient.”35:00 “Telemedicine is most powerful as triage.”39:00 You can learn more about Pager at www.pager.com, or by emailing Toby at toby@pager.com.

Interview with Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Co-Founder of Gilt Groupe and CEO of Glamsquad. In this episode of Smart People Should Build Things: The Venture for America Podcast, Jeremy interviews Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Co-Founder of Gilt Groupe and current CEO of Glamsquad, on-demand, app-based beauty provider delivering professional and affordable hair, makeup and nails (currently available in NYC only) services to your home, office, hotel, or wherever you may be. Alexandra gives Jeremy the inside scoop on what she learned while building Gilt Groupe and what's it's like to be the matriarch of the "Glam Fam".

[Recorded at the May 12, 2015 Microservices Meetup in NY.] Dealing with a traffic spike amounting to half of Amazon’s traffic each day when new sales are announced is no easy matter. Michael Bryzek, co-founder of retailer Gilt Groupe, talks about the architectural and cultural evolution that took place as Gilt introduced microservices during its growth over the course of the past seven years. Transitioning from a few monolithic systems to somewhere in the range of 300 to 400 microservices today presented a lot of challenges along the way. First describing how they decided to prioritize which parts of their system to optimize by breaking it into smaller, more optimized services, Bryzek covers some of the challenges that were encountered and how they went about solving them. He also describes some of the steps they took right up until today, when they have begun transitioning to Amazon’s AWS. Successfully building a microservices architecture typically takes a strong culture of trust with teams that are empowered to do the right thing. Bryzek discusses some of the sources of inspiration they had when faced with the problem of developing trust while growing their engineering capability, and some of the other organizations whose lessons they looked to for ideas.

Minter Dialogue Episode #118 — This interview is with Kevin Ryan, a serial and highly successful entrepreneur. Kevin is the founder and Chairman of GILT, the luxury flash sale online site with over 9 million members, as well as the founder of Business Insider and co-founder of MongoDB. Previously, Kevin was CEO of DoubleClick which was sold under his stewardship in 2005 for $1.1B. in this conversation, focusing largely on Gilt, we discuss issues of digital transformation and leadership in the digital age. Among other topics, we discuss the reality of test & learn, getting leadership buy-in and driving change. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Jen Kluczkowski is an 800-Hour Certified Jivamutki Yoga teacher, the co-founder and yoga director of Yoga Means Business, a new concept that brings yoga to the workplace. Her organization has been featured in Fast Company, Men's Fitness, The Huffington Post, and many more publications. Their corporate clients include Facebook, L'Oreal, and the Gilt Groupe, and for anyone stuck in an office most of the day, we're going to talk about some ways to bring yoga to your life.   In this Show, You'll learn: The life experiences that lead to starting the business of taking yoga to the workplace. How Yoga Means Business merges fitness with the work environment. Why yoga is more accessible today than ever. How a company's staff integrates yoga into their daily routines.

This session will focus on Gilt's implementation of Play Framework across its architecture--starting with Gilt Live, a real-time page showcasing purchases made in real-time, and eventually branching out to many critical parts of the company's tech organization (from search to inventory status updates). Play has offered Gilt numerous advantages in terms of accessibility, scalability and performance. You'll hear more about lessons learned and the many advantages Play has offered to Gilt, a rapidly-moving eCommerce company with more than eight million users.

In this interview with Gilt Groupe CTO Michael Bryzek, we discuss how the company started, the open source technologies they've used, and how their open source commitment has evolved. We take some time to talk about the scale of their operation, and how they leverage micro services as a way to make it more manageable and scalable in both infrastructure and human terms. The post Business of Technology #4 – Gilt Groupe CTO Michael Bryzek on Gilt and Open Source appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

Audio File:  Download MP3Transcript: An Interview with Alexandra Wilkis Wilson Founder and Chief Merchandising Officer, Gilt Groupe Date: March 21, 2011 NCWIT Entrepreneurial Heroes: Interview with Alexandra Wilkis Wilson [intro music]

Lee Kennedy:  Hi. This is Lee Kennedy, board member of the National Center for Women in Information Technology, or NCWIT. I'm also CEO of Bolder Search. This is a part of a series of interviews that we're having with fabulous entrepreneurs, women who have started IT companies in a variety of sectors, and all of whom just have terrific stories to tell us about being entrepreneurs. With me here today is Larry Nelson from w3w3.com. Hi, Larry.

 Larry Nelson:  Hi. I am so happy to be here. This is going to be an excellent interview. I know my wife in particular, who is also my business partner, is very anxious to hear this interview. Lee:  Great. Today we're interviewing Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, who is the founder and chief merchandising officer of the Gilt Groupe. It's an innovative company that's revolutionized the fashion industry and e‑commerce in general. Alexandra has been featured on "Forbes Fortune," "The Wall Street Journal," and many times on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox. Welcome, Alexandra. We're thrilled to have you today. Alexandra Wilkis Wilson:  Thanks for having me. Lee:  Before we start, Alexandra, can you tell us a little bit about the Gilt Groupe and what's new there? Alexandra:  Sure. We launched Gilt Groupe in November 2007. We were inspired by a love of fashion and the excitement of the New York City sample sale. We wanted to bring this excitement online for the first time in the U.S. Today, three and a half years later, we have really grown into a lifestyle business where we sell, on our website, every single day, beautiful merchandise, curated by our teams of buyers and merchants across many categories. We sell women's, men's, home decor, children's, beauty. We have a set called Jet Setter, which is all about luxury and high‑end travel around the world. Our newest launch is called Gilt City, where we offer local experiences. We are live there in New York, L.A., San Francisco, Boston, Miami, Chicago, and also in Tokyo, because I forgot to mention we have Gilt Japan as well. Lee:  Wow. That is exciting. Larry:  Great. Alexandra:  We've been busy. Lee:  We'd love to hear how you first got into technology, and then what technologies do you think are cool today? Alexandra:  Prior to founding Gilt Group, I had never worked in technology officially, in any capacity. I had been working for Bulgari and Louis Vuitton after business school, in much more of a bricks‑and‑mortar environment. My co‑founder, Alexis Maybank, is the reverse of that. She had worked at eBay. She was a very early employee there, and scaled from about 40 to 5,000 employees over the five‑year period, so she had terrific e‑commerce experience. However, I would say I've always been a pretty early adopter of using new technologies as a consumer. Lee:  It sounds like you two had a good combo in your backgrounds. Alexandra:  Absolutely. Lee:  The second part of the question was, what do you think is really cool in as far as technology, gadgets? Alexandra:  There are so many technologies that I think are cool today. Probably my most recent purchase is Apple TV, which I just love. It's a chance to bring together a lot of different forms of media together from having our photographs, to Netflix and movies and music, all kinds of different sources that we use on a day to day basis, whether it's on the computer or TV. It's all in one place. Of course, I have an iPad. As soon as iPad launched, I had one, and actually I'm proud to say that when iPad launched, Gilt had a great app from day one. I love this app. If you haven't taken a look at it, you should download it. It's free, and it makes shopping on the go a lot easier. We also of course have an iPhone app, an Android, and we have mobile as well. Lee:  Cool. Larry:  Wow. We'll make sure that we put a link to that app, how's that? [laughter] Alexandra:  That would be great. Thanks. Larry:  All right. Why are you an entrepreneur? What is it about entrepreneurship that makes you tick? Alexandra:  Sure. Prior to founding Gilt Groupe, my resume didn't look like an entrepreneurial resume, but I think that is something that is innate and something I was born with, in terms of my creativity, my spirit. My father's an entrepreneur. I was the little girl growing up in New York City who loved to have lemonade stands. While I'd have a lemonade stand, I would sell the bracelets that I made off of my wrists because someone would tell me that they loved that bracelet. I was always into little business ideas from a very young age. I had a babysitting business that I built. So I think it's something that comes from within. Something that's important to think about is there's so many different types of entrepreneurs. There are the people with the big ideas, and then there are the people who can take an idea and really run with it and execute it. I think both types of entrepreneurs are equally important in creating a startup that can really become successful. Lee:  It definitely sounds like it was in your blood. Larry:  Yeah, that's a fact. Lee:  When you think back about your career path, who's really been a role model or influential in supporting you in this career path? Alexandra:  My parents have always been very supportive and involved in my education, and after my education, in my career path and the different choices I have made along the way. I definitely spoke a lot with my parents. My husband also played an important role. I think he is the one who helped give me that confidence to push me forward and take a risk and do something I have never done before. So I think it begins with family, absolutely. But it's also important to have mentors and a figurative personal board of advisers of people that you can go to for advice, to brainstorm ideas, to have sometimes a sanity check. As I've seen my career progress over the years, I think that personal, figurative board of advisers actually does evolve over time, and at different stages in one's career, you need different bits of advice. You also meet a lot more people along the way. Larry:  Boy, I'll say. With your brick‑and‑mortar background, along with your high‑tech‑ness today, what is the toughest thing that you've had to do along the way in your career? Alexandra:  I think that's a hard question. I'm only 34, and I expect to have a long career ahead of me. I think there are always tough moments, from some difficult days and being exhausted to making big decisions of when to move on from an opportunity, when to launch something, start something new. There have been many moments where I've had to seek guidance. Right out of business school I was very focused on working in luxury. I worked for Louis Vuitton in their management and training program. I literally was, for a year, standing on the shop floor, on the sales floor, working directly with customers. Sometimes that would be very humbling and I would wonder if it was a crazy decision to be doing a job like that, or if maybe it was really smart to understand retail from the bottom up. Today I think it was smart, but at the time, I certainly did question myself. Lee:  It kind of leads into our next question. If you were sitting here with a young person and giving them advice about entrepreneurship, what advice would you give them? Alexandra:  Well, I love speaking with entrepreneurs and people who are considering doing something entrepreneurial, so there are a lot of tidbits I would share. One is to figure out what you're really passionate about, what you're good at, what makes you so inspired and excited that if you were doing something from a career perspective 24/7, what would make you jump out of bed in the morning and run to work and it wouldn't really feel like work? I think when work feels like work, it's not as fun. I think it's important to have fun on a job, to learn on the job, to be around people who you respect, who you can learn from. I think learning is so important, no matter how old you are and how experienced you are. I think it's important to be OK with failure. I think if you're so worried about, "Well, what if this fails? What do I do if this fails?" then that's just setting yourself up for not a good situation. It's OK to fail. Some entrepreneurs learn their most valuable mistakes from having a rough start. You can always start again and do something different. So go for it, but make sure you have a great team of people you really trust, that you really know very well, because when times are tough, you see people's true colors. You want to make sure that you really are close with the team that you start a business with. Larry:  I can relate to everything that you have said so far. My wife and I, we started 12 companies over the years, and we've always told people we've learned more from the failures than we did from the great successes. Alexandra:  I believe that. Larry:  Yeah. Just a little introspection here. What are the personal characteristics that you think that you have that give you the advantage of being an entrepreneur? Alexandra:  There are probably a few things, I would say. One is I'm a very hard worker. I'm very dedicated. I'm responsible and reliable. I've always had this sort of fire in my belly, whether you want to call it ambition or drive or just enthusiasm for something when I'm really passionate about it. I think those are all important qualities to have. I also love people. I think I can read people pretty well. I speak several languages. I really speak several languages. I speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, but I can also speak in a nuanced way, different languages. Which, what I mean to say is I can be equally comfortable speaking to a CEO as I am speaking with the CFO, the CMO, a very junior person, a designer, someone in marketing, PR. Really, at all levels of a company. In terms of what I had built with Gilt Groupe and convincing thousands of brands to work with us, I've relied on this ability to communicate with different people, different levels of people, different backgrounds, different mindsets, and being able to adjust my message and my positioning based on that person or that company's point of view. Lee:  That definitely helps. Larry:  Yeah, you bet. Lee:  When you think of your long days and struggling through different challenges in the startup you've been in, how do you bring balance into your personal and professional life? Alexandra:  Well, I'm still learning how to do that, so if anyone has advice, I'm always open to hearing how other people do that well. But I'm very organized, and I think that's important. I'm also a new mother, so that forces me to be even more organized than I was in the first place. I think it's important to take time for oneself, for family, for friends. But there are always going to be moments where things are a little bit out of balance. There are going to be time periods where I have to work really hard, I have to travel. I'm not going to be able to spend as much time with my family. That's OK, and I'm OK with that, as long as overall, I can find that type of balance. I certainly rely on technology in terms of communicating with the people that are important to me. Lee:  That's inspiring. You've started this company and you've had a baby. Larry:  Speaking of that, you've got a new baby, you've already accomplished a great deal at your young tender age. What is next for you? Alexandra:  I'm still having a great time. I'm learning a lot, and I think as long as I'm continuing to learn and interact with people that inspire me, I will keep going as is. I love what we're doing and creating with Gilt Groupe, so I think I'm here for a while. Larry:  All right. Sounds wonderful. Lee:  Thank you so much for interviewing with us today. We've enjoyed hearing your story, and we look forward to having it up on w3w3.com as well as ncwhit.org. Please pass this along to friends and family and anyone that's interested in becoming an entrepreneur. Larry:  Isn't that a fact. In fact, some of the parents who are raising their children to give them a little entrepreneurial shove. Alexandra:  Thank you very much. It was a pleasure. Lee:  Thank you, Alexandra. Larry:  Thank you, Alexandra. [music] Series: Entrepreneurial HeroesInterviewee: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson Interview Summary: Inspired by a love of fashion and the excitement of a New York sample sale, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson founded Gilt Groupe to share her love and excitement with a larger online audience. Release Date: March 21, 2011Interview Subject: Alexandra Wilkis WilsonInterviewer(s): Larry Nelson, Lee KennedyDuration: 13:33

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Thank you again Courtney Nelson for introducing me to our guest today, Byron Ling ( https://www.canaan.com/team/byron-ling ). Byron ( https://www.canaan.com/team/byron-ling ) is a partner at Canaan ( https://www.canaan.com/ ). Canaan is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionaries with transformative ideas. Byron invests in consumer companies that are reinventing the way we shop, entertain and educate ourselves. Some of his investments include Roman, Papa, and Bravo Sierra. He was previously an investor at Primary Venture Partners and, prior to the venture world, was an early operator at Gilt Groupe. It was great chatting with Bryon about his diligence process and the effects COVID has on the early stage investing ecosystem, so without further ado, here's Byron. One book that inspired Byron personally is The Audacity of Hope ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307237702?camp=1789&creativeASIN=0307237702&ie=UTF8&linkCode=xm2&tag=theconsumervc-20 ) by Barack Obama. One book that inspired him professionally is Who: The A Method to Hiring ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EL6RWY?camp=1789&creativeASIN=B001EL6RWY&ie=UTF8&linkCode=xm2&tag=theconsumervc-20 ) by Geoff Smart. You can follow Byron on both Twitter and Medium @byronling1. You can also follow your host, Mike, on Twitter @mikegelb ( https://twitter.com/MikeGelb ). You can also follow for episode announcements @consumervc ( https://twitter.com/ConsumerVc ). In this episode we discuss - * What attracted him to early stage startups and consumer? After Gilt Groupe, what compelled him to head into venture capital? What's his due diligence process at the seed and Series A? What are the milestones that an entrepreneur has to accomplish at each of those stages? What does he focus on the most at each stage - market size, traction, founding team, product-market fit, founder market fit? * What are a few qualities in a founder that he looks for? **How does he think about early traction? How can a founder de-risk product market fit? Difference between opportunistic vs thematic investors, where does he sit on the spectrum? * How is he thinking about coronavirus as it relates to consumer investing? Is he shifting strategy away/towards companies/verticals? Are you pausing investments in a particular space? Is he concerned about some current portfolio companies' ability to raise? How is he adjusting to new work protocols (remote working, etc) and if so, is that having an impact? * What macro consumer trends is he focused on? What is one thing that he would change about venture capital? What's one piece of advice for founders of consumer startups?