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Masters of Scale

Emma Grede, Mellody Hobson & Angela Ahrendts on inclusive leadership

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Emma Grede is the co-founder of Good American and Safely, a founding partner of Skims, and chair of the 15 Percent Pledge. In this conversation, recorded live on stage at the Masters of Scale Summit in October of 2024, Grede shares entrepreneurial lessons with Angela Ahrendts (former SVP at Apple). Later in the episode, it’s Ahrendts’ 2024 Summit chat with Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and former chair of DreamWorks. Hobson explains why she believes DEI efforts are worth fighting for and the importance of financial literacy.

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0:00.0

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0:48.1

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0:53.5

employ people, put their kids through school.

0:56.3

You know, that to me is what this is all about.

1:03.8

That's Emma Greed, the co-founder of the Kardashian fashion brand Good American.

1:09.0

Emma shares some stellar lessons from her entrepreneurial successes with us in this episode.

1:16.3

And later on, we hear from Melde Hobson, the president of aerial investments and former DreamWorks chair,

1:22.4

who weighs in on DEI efforts, which, as you may have noticed, have been in the news of late.

1:29.5

There's this sense that it is a zero-sum game in the society, that if someone's winning,

1:34.3

someone else is losing, I do not prescribe to that. Our economy and our society has been built

1:39.8

on the fact that the pie keeps getting bigger. And the greatness of America is that you had this middle class and others who could share in that over time.

1:49.6

You've got to have incredible talent at every position.

1:52.4

It's like this huge push.

1:54.1

There are fires burning when you're going home.

1:55.9

Can you believe it?

1:56.7

Such an idiot.

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