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No one does it alone, and Operator Collective is designed to bring people together who know how to succeed and want to help each other. Hear from a few of our founders to get a feel for what's it like to be a part of OpCo, and the magic that can happen when we put the Collective Venture Model to work ⬇️ Caitlin Colgrove, Co-Founder & CTO, Hex Melanie Fellay 🐙, CEO & Co-Founder, Spekit 🐙  Deon Nicholas, CEO & Co-Founder, Forethought  Shannon Goggin, CEO & Co-Founder, Noyo  Pouyan Salehi, CEO & Co-Founder, Scratchpad 🎥 https://lnkd.in/gfjT4wtb #CollectiveVenture #VentureCapital

Anthropic's Head of Sales + Partnerships Kate Jensen dives into this month's Operator Spotlight to shed light on her non-linear path from the mining industry to one of the companies leading the Gen AI charge, how she keeps her teams focused in a wildly fast-paced market, and what opportunities and challenges keep her up at night. 💫 Dig in here! #Operators #Sales #Anthropic #GenAI #AI

As I waited for the new CIO of one of our major investors to arrive for our first meeting, I started to feel off, not like anything I’ve ever felt before. I took two Advil. I chugged some water. I wolfed down a piece of bread. I shook it off. After he arrived, I managed to fake it for a few minutes before feeling like I might pass out right there in the middle of the restaurant. "I’m sorry. I’m not feeling well," I admitted, excusing myself. Alone, I mentally checked myself: my heart was racing, a feeling of anxiety, a bit disoriented, and I could feel the blood rush through my body up to my neck and head. Aware that women's heart attack symptoms differ from men's, I began Googling. No, not that. Maybe it’s a stroke. More searching. Not those symptoms either. Then it hit me, confirmed by Google: "I’m having my first hot flash!" Initially relieved to have identified it (spoiler alert - a hot flash isn't just suddenly overheating), my next thought was, "I cannot believe women live with these for years. But menopause is actually power. After countless hours of research and interviews, here's my take on why.

Honored and excited to be reuniting with The Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice and longtime friend Ketanji Brown Jackson at the ChIPs Network Global Summit for a fireside chat. She first came to the ChIPs Summit a decade ago when she was still a newer District Court Judge (and yes it was apparent even then what her path would be). For years, if you asked me my dream job, it was to be Terry Gross from NPR’s Fresh Air. So please DM or put your questions in comments - would love to integrate as many as I can. Can't wait to see you all on October 17th including the amazing current board Sarita Venkat Katherine Minarik Stephanie Burns Jennifer Yokoyama Victoria Espinel Karen Robinson Dorian Daley and as many of my co-founders Mona Sabet Michelle Lee noreen krall Anirma Gupta Emily Ward Julie Mar-Spinola as can make it!

The need for fresh perspectives and varied expertise has never been more critical in the boardroom. 👀 Here are 12 powerhouse women from the OpCo community of Operator LPs who each bring a strong mix of expertise, vision and proven leadership to the table - exactly what companies today need to stay ahead of the curve. ↪ 🔸 Anneka Gupta: Chief Product Officer, Rubrik 🔸 Billie Sue Chafins: Chief Technology Officer, Tripadvisor 🔸 Deborah Holstein: Chief Growth Officer, Rocket Lawyer 🔸 Erica Dorfman: EVP, Global Financial Products, Brex 🔸 Francessca Vasquez: Global VP, Technology Amazon Web Services (AWS) 🔸 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser: Chief Business Officer, Stripe 🔸 Jessica Rusin: former Chief Technology Officer, Guild 🔸 Kristy Friedrichs (McBride): Chief Partnerships Officer, Palo Alto Networks 🔸 Li Fan: Chief Technology Officer, Circle 🔸 Shannon Nash, Esq., CPA: Chief Financial Officer, Wing 🔸 Tiffany To: SVPGM, Enterprise & Platform, Atlassian 🔸 Yolanda (Yolis) Ruiz: VP, Finance, Grindr Read more about each one! 👇

Every year, I work with the Textio team to publish our annual research compendium on the state of performance feedback. Today the 2024 research goes live. It happens to be the 10-year anniversary of the very first research I published on this topic in Fortune that started this whole thing cooking. 🚀 This year, we're diving deep into two main topics: * The feedback received by high performers and its impact on their decision to stay or quit * New data about stereotype threat, and the way that people of different genders and races *internalize* feedback that aligns with social stereotypes about their demographic You probably expect that high performers get more feedback than everyone else, and you're right. But it might surprise you to learn that more of their feedback is problematic -- and that high-performing women get the most problematic feedback of all. Get the full research and let me know what you think! https://lnkd.in/gt9-bmBb

"One of the most underrated things about AI is that AI doesn't work that well -- it's overrated and overhyped what AI will do today. AI is still a profound scientific technologic North Star for many of us because it is the creation of machine intelligence. Let's not mistaken an ambitious, audacious goal with the reality. It's true AI has had its inflection point, especially with LLMs. But it's still a deeply flawed or limited technology that requires a lot of human in the loop and that requires a lot of understanding of its limitations." -- Fei-Fei Li, the godmother of AI, while being incredibly excited about AI in response to Dawn Song's question re what's most underrated about AI to the panel of pioneers including Raj Reddy, first Asian American Turing award-recipient (that's his opening slide below). Thank you Li Fan for leading the way and reuniting us all at the Asian American Scholar Forum's inaugural Asian American Pioneer Medal Symposium yesterday, including Yanbing Li Ning Li Denise Peck Buck Gee.

Thrilled to get to turn the tables on Kara Swisher and ask her about all things tech and more. Hope to see you all at the ChIPs Network Summit in October!

Fresh off a hot IPO, we're shining a light on Rubrik's Chief Product Officer Anneka Gupta for this month's Operator Spotlight. Read on to find out where domain expertise is overrated, how she aligns engineering, product, and design teams, and 5 incredibly valuable lessons she's learned during her toughest career moments. 🔥

Congratulations to Operator LP Linda Tong, Webflow's new CEO! 🎉 We love to see it 🤩