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Rapid Response: How Chief became a phenomenon, w/CEO Carolyn Childers

Rapid Response: How Chief became a phenomenon, w/CEO Carolyn Childers

Masters of Scale · WaitWhat

April 21, 202230m 2s

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Show Notes

Amid pandemic disruption, Chief turned a small, NYC-based club for women executives into a national phenomenon with more than 12,000 members. Co-founder and CEO Carolyn Childers joins Rapid Response to share how she and co-founder Lindsay Kaplan managed the unlikely transformation, which recently yielded a $100 million Series B funding round. She reveals how the company leveraged existing tech and their own innovations to build connections, identifying not just a gap in the marketplace but a need for a whole new set of tools to support business leaders.

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