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🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | we should represent the communities that we serve and that's the approach we take when we think |
0:05.3 | about our company and the people in our company. This is the playbook. I am here with the Chief |
0:12.7 | Business Officer. It's shipped. Reena Hurst, welcome to the playbook. Thank you for having me, David. |
0:19.6 | You know, I'm always intrigued with sea level executives because it seems especially in the |
0:23.9 | last few years that we have more and more creative names that we come up with Chief Heart Officer, |
0:31.5 | Chief People Officer, and I love the generalality of Chief Business Officer. What is that |
0:39.0 | entail at shipped? It's a good question. I get asked that question quite a bit as you can imagine, |
0:44.8 | but I have a really, really awesome job at shipped. I get to work with every single retail partner |
0:52.0 | that we have. So we have over 130 partners that we work with across the US. |
0:57.1 | My job entails finding the right partners, bringing them on board to shipped, and then spending |
1:02.9 | years to develop and grow the business together, whether that be figuring out new solutions to meet |
1:08.4 | their e-commerce needs or storytelling through our digital assets. So I have a really cool job |
1:14.7 | and a really awesome team behind me that gets to make the engine work and drive the engine of growth |
1:20.0 | for shipped. And with that, you well prepared yourself, and you know, the landscape of education |
1:28.1 | is changing, and you went through some really top-tier schools. And I would love for you to share |
1:34.4 | your perspective on institutional education and how it has been a positive, a positive experience |
1:44.7 | for you as far as your career, because when I find people who have these amazing jobs, like you do, |
1:50.7 | I tend to see two schools. One, I dropped out of high school or college, |
1:55.6 | or two, I went to the top-tier schools, and you know, was able to accomplish all of this, |
2:01.7 | because we're empowered by that very few in between. I was wondering what your educational |
2:07.9 | experience was and how applicable is it today to what you do and how applicable is it to the |
2:13.2 | people that you hire? Yeah, I, you know, I'm really fortunate, David. So thank you for saying |
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