Polly is the CEO and Co-Founder of Unbound, a rebellious sexual wellness company with the goal to make sexual health accessible to all through elevated design, body safe products, affordable prices, and educational content. As you will soon discover, Unbound’s inspiration stemmed largely from Polly’s experience at 21 years old. She was diagnosed with cancer that resulted in early onset menopause. Polly found herself shopping for a vibrator at a seedy shop next to the highway in St. Louis, Missou...
Feb 27, 2024•48 min
To put it most simply: Linda is a biologist and entrepreneur at heart . Perhaps most notably, she is the co-founder of 23andMe, a publicly held consumer genetic data company. She was the co-president of the company from 2006 to 2009. Linda is also the cofounder and former CEO of Precise.ly, an intelligent assistant for clinical care settings. Linda is currently a member on the board of directors of the Human Immunome Project, which is building the world’s largest immunological dataset at a popul...
Feb 20, 2024•52 min
Sarah co-founded Nextdoor, the world's largest private social network of neighborhoods used by over 75 million members in over 285,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries (NYSE: KIND). Sarah led product, marketing, growth, and international expansion over 10 years at Nextdoor. Sarah started her career at Microsoft and served as the VP of Product + Marketing at Epinions and Shopping.com before the company was sold to eBay. Sarah received her bachelors degree from Harvard College and her MBA from Ha...
Feb 13, 2024•55 min
Margaret is a mother of two, the daughter of immigrants, and the Founder and CEO of Three Wishes Cereal, a healthy-while-delicious cereal. Before founding Three Wishes, Margaret was Chief of Staff at BigEyedWish, an ad-agency where she worked with Fortune 100 to seed-round startup businesses. After welcoming her first son, Ellis, with her husband and Cofounder, Ian, in 2017, Margaret realized there’s a white space in the market for nutritional yet tasty cereal. She has grown Three Wishes from co...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr
Celine is the founder and CEO of Loyal - a biotech startup developing drugs to extend dog lifespan. Before founding Loyal, Celine worked at the Longevity Fund - a venture capital fund investing in therapies with the potential to extend human lifespan. Celine studied the health economics of gene therapy while attending Oxford for her PhD. Prior to Oxford, she received her Bachelors in Neuroscience and Nanobiotechnology at the University of Texas at Austin and at Uppsala Universitet in Sweden. 📹 ...
Sep 28, 2023•56 min
Annie is the VP of Growth and Ecosystems at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Annie has an extensive 10+ year experience in leading product teams. She began her product career at a financial tech startup - before joining Box. Throughout her time at Box, she rose up the ranks to become the Director of Product Management. Thereafter, she joined Glassdoor as a VP of Product and then became the Chief Product Officer. She carried on this title to her time at Calendly. As the CPO, Annie led their core pr...
Sep 14, 2023•52 min
Lauren is an executive turned entrepreneur with 19+ years of experience building brands, products, and communities across a diverse set of industries. Lauren is the founder and CEO of Conceive, a digital health platform aiming to change fertility and pregnancy outcomes and experiences. Prior to Conceive, Lauren was VP, Global Head of Strategy and M&A at WeightWatchers, a Senior Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and Strategic Product Partnerships lead at Google. Lauren is also an active angel i...
Sep 07, 2023•59 min
Becky is a 2X World Cup Champion and an Olympic Gold Medalist - with 216 national team appearances. She serves as the U.S Women's National Team captain and is the first ever President of the USWNT Players’ Association, where she has fought for equal pay for the women’s side. Beyond the national squad, Becky is a 4X NWSL Defender of the Year and 3X NWSL Champion. She led the Portland Thorns to win last year - the team in which she currently plays for. It becomes quite clear for anyone who watches...
Aug 31, 2023•56 min
Nicole is a 25+ year marketing executive who held leadership roles at Aon Hewitt, Zendesk, and Logitech. Rising from a product marketing specialist, she became Corporate VP and Head of Marketing at Aon Hewitt and COO/CMO at Logitech Sports and Human Performance. In 2022, Nicole left Logitech to start a fitness coaching business. Recently, she founded her full-service marketing consultancy, Baer Consulting, following her success with Artemis Marketing Partners, established in 2017. Nicole holds a...
Aug 24, 2023•52 min
Kathryn is an American professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for the United States Women's National Volleyball team and the Italian club Imoco Volley. Prior to playing volleyball professionally, Kat played for the Stanford Women’s Volleyball team. She led Stanford to win NCAA Division 1 National Championships in 2016, 2018 and 2019. She was named to the NCAA all-tournament team all three years, and won the Most Outstanding Player award in her two final seasons. As a fresh...
Aug 10, 2023•57 min
Sara holds a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo. She has an extensive career, primarily at Twitter, while also working at an early-stage startup and Periscope.tv, a live video streaming application. After Periscope got acquired by Twitter in 2015, Sara ended up returning to Twitter and working there over a span of approximately 11 years. She successfully led engineering and product management teams, contributing to notable products such as Vine, Twitter Blu...
Aug 01, 2023•56 min
Olivia is the Head of Operations and Strategy at Haus, a decision science platform who helps brands make informed investment decisions. Prior to Haus, Olivia led growth marketing at Sonos, Netflix, and Quibi. Before diving into marketing, Olivia worked in the advertising space; and worked for an AdsTech startup called TubeMogul where she joined as the 100th employee. She saw the company grow to about 500 people and get acquired by Adobe shortly thereafter for ~$540M. Olivia also received her Bac...
Jul 19, 2023•47 min
Tamar Yehoshua is a venture partner at IVP, where she shares her experience leading and scaling innovative products with the next generation of market leaders. She joined IVP from Slack where she led product, design and research as CPO through 10x revenue growth, IPO and acquisition by Salesforce. Prior to that, Tamar was a Vice President at Google holding product and engineering leadership roles on Google’s most important products, including Search, Identity and Privacy. She currently serves on...
Jul 12, 2023•49 min
Dorothy is the Head of Public Affairs at DeepMind, an artificial intelligence lab within Google. Prior to DeepMind, Dorothy led Public Policy, Safety, and Corporate Communications at Uber, Dropbox and Google respectively - bringing 15+ years of experience in this sector. She is also an active angel investor, and sees this as a vehicle for social change. She received her Bachelors in International Politics from Georgetown University and her Masters in Practical Ethics from the University of Oxfor...
Jul 06, 2023•49 min
Elizabeth is the Founder and Managing Director of Scribble Ventures, an early-stage venture firm. Previously, she worked in VC at 137 Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, and was an early executive at Twitter. She has invested in more than 60 technology companies across all stages, including Slack, Whatnot, and SpaceX. Elizabeth graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Economics and a Masters in Engineering. She is also the founder of Paperwheel and an ultra-marathon runner, running more tha...
Jun 27, 2023•53 min
Carol has 10+ years of engineering management experience building, leading and scaling productive teams at Netflix, Intel and Cisco. She has built teams and product from concept to reality across many technologies in enterprise networking, internet of things and entertainment industries. She currently leads engineering teams in Consumer Identity and Access at Netflix, and has a Masters (Thesis) in EE from Texas A&M University. 📹 interview available on the #SheLeadswithCarly Facebook page! P...
Jun 14, 2023•46 min
Alex is currently the VP of Growth at Perelel Health. Prior to Perelel, Alex worked in strategy at Spotify, The Walt Disney Co, and also worked at Netflix for almost 4 years in Marketing and Content Strategy. She also led growth strategy at short-form content-streaming startup, Quibi. Before starting her 8+ year career in strategy and growth, Alex started off her professional career in finance in investment banking after receiving her bachelors degree in Physics and Mathematics from Wellesley Co...
Jun 01, 2023•55 min
Ira is the Chief Legal Officer at SuperLayer, a venture studio for those building premier projects in consumer Web3. Prior to SuperLayer, Ira has 10+ years of experience working as the General Counsel in a variety of spaces, including gaming, financial technology, and cryptocurrency – working at companies including Kabam, HouseCanary, Rally, and Forte. Ira received her Bachelors in Political Science from University of CA, Berkeley and her J.D. from NYU School of Law. 📹 interview available on th...
May 24, 2023•51 min
Ellie and Jensen are the cofounders of Oddli, a sustainably sourced clothing brand, where they are aiming to solve the problem in which 14 million pounds of perfectly good new material are thrown away everyday in the clothing industry. Solving this is at Oddli’s core as Ellie and Jensen aim to boost our planet’s health by turning this deadstock fabric into unique, colorful and playful clothing pieces - all while enabling a special story that each person carries while wearing Oddli. Their partner...
May 17, 2023•44 min
Sudha is most recently the former Vice President of Strategy and Business Operations at Dropbox. Prior to Dropbox, Sudha led Growth Strategy at Amazon, LendingClub and Silicon Valley Bank, where she also led BizOps and Product Management. After receiving her Bachelors in Mathematics and Statistics from University of Connecticut and her Masters in Management Science from Stanford University, she started her professional career working in management consulting. Enjoy! 📹 interview available on the...
May 02, 2023•48 min
Kaitlyn is a Product Manager for Nextdoor, an app for neighborhoods where you can get local tips, buy and sell items, and just interact with your fellow neighbors. Prior to Nextdoor, she was a PM at Twitter on their Revenue and Ads Monetization team. Besides her product roles at these top well-known companies, Kaitlyn has also been at the forefront of creating a product from 0 to 1 as a founder. She founded Educents back in 2013 - where she built an educational marketplace for teachers and paren...
Apr 25, 2023•45 min
Miriam is a 23 year old engineer, innovator, speaker, and entrepreneur. While studying Computer Science at Stanford, Miriam has gained reputable skills within the fields of quantum computing, virtual reality and augmented reality - even enabling her to be the youngest teacher at Stanford University at 19 - where she teaches a Computer Science class on virtual reality. As an entrepreneur, Miriam co-founded Eazitt, a consumer-goods app in South Africa. Beyond Eazitt, Miriam has built numerous iOS ...
Apr 13, 2023•57 min
Dushka is a renowned communication expert with over 20 years of experience in the industry. Dushka's work revolves around helping companies and individuals develop their personal brand. She helps people and businesses find their unique voice. Her work has been consumed on Q&A site Quora over 265 million times, and she has written over 10 bestsellers, including most recently “For All I Know - A Shebang of Checklists for life” and “Please Don’t Blame Love - A Relationship Handbook”. Enjoy! 📹 ...
Apr 04, 2023•47 min
Tania is the Product Lead for the Shopify Logistic’s Launch team. She was previously a Director of Product at GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar. Tania has over 15 years of product management experience, from building top 100 IOS apps from the ground up to having her products featured in the Super Bow; she thrives on fast-paced problem-solving, team-building and dynamic collaboration. She was born and raised in Mexico City and is a graduate of Stanford University. Enjoy! 📹 interview ...
Mar 21, 2023•46 min
Maria is the founder and CEO of Clayful - a mental health platform for young kids. Prior to Clayful, Maria took on leadership roles in Growth and Marketing at ChartHop and an education technology company, Nearpod. While receiving her bachelors and masters in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, she also worked for Boeing and GE Aviation in Manufacturing Engineering. Enjoy! 📹 interview available on the #SheLeadswithCarly Facebook page or Youtube page! https://www.facebook.com/SheLead...
Mar 14, 2023•52 min
Samantha is the Chief Executive Officer for SHE Media, a top 5 lifestyle media company reaching 88 million women each month. Sam began her career in digital technology and media over 25 years ago at Interactive Imaginations, a gaming start-up that went public in 1998. She held management roles with CNET, Disney, and Alloy Media and Marketing. Prior to joining SHE Media in 2013, Sam was Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer for clean tech innovator, RecycleBank. Sam holds a BA in comparative litera...
Mar 07, 2023•52 min
We are back with Season 4 of SheLeads! Back to the incredible leaders from all different industries...kicking us off with... Gaia Palliere! Gaia is currently a student & founder, and her background consists of product & growth strategy for companies like APL, Madison Square Garden, and now a few years into her first startup. Having lived in four different countries by the age of 7, Gaia’s always been focused on interesting people and meaningful problems. Right now her focus is on the sin...
Feb 21, 2023•34 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 18 (Part 2) Tatyana is now the Senior VP and GM at Pendo.io - Adopt, which focuses on driving adoption, transformation and the future of the digital workspace. Prior to Pendo, Tatyana worked at top companies - including IDEO, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services as a Director of Product Management, and NextDoor as the Chief Product Officer. Tatyana is also an Adviser and Board Member to many companies, including Braintrust, UserTesting and Sauce Labs. This is the secon...
Sep 01, 2022•31 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 18 Tatyana is now the Senior VP and GM at Pendo.io - Adopt, which focuses on driving adoption, transformation and the future of the digital workspace. Prior to Pendo, Tatyana worked at top companies - including IDEO, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services as a Director of Product Management, and NextDoor as the Chief Product Officer. Tatyana is also an Adviser and Board Member to many companies, including Braintrust, UserTesting and Sauce Labs. Enjoy! 📹 interview availa...
Aug 25, 2022•30 min
SheLeads [in Product] Series Ep 17 Yasi is a product and strategy executive and has been in various health tech companies of all sizes in the last decade. She is currently the SVP of Product & Marketing at Cleo, a family caregiving platform. Prior to Cleo, she lead products at companies like Teladoc Health, Fitbit, and athenahealth. Beyond product, Yasi also has experience in investing and entrepreneurship. While receiving her MBA from Harvard Business School, Yasi founded ActivePepper, a mo...
Aug 22, 2022•39 min
