Ep.30 A Masterclass on Climbing the Corporate Ladder with Shopify MD Shimona Mehta
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Shimona Mehta is an acclaimed tech pioneer with extensive experience in retail, technology, food and beverage. Awarded for being one of the UK’s most influential retail leaders, Shimona is best known for being the Managing Director of EMEA for Shopify - the leading e-commerce hub for independent brands. Designed to make buying and selling easy, Shopify offers businesses a range of tools to design, manage and grow an online store, hosting numerous high-growth brands including Deliveroo, Lindt, and Heinz.
Delving deeper, Shimona and I get real on female leadership in the tech industry touching on the uphill battle for women to reach the top and also so they feel like they belong there. We have a Q&A on side hustles, we answer all your questions on Instagram on when you should know you need to leave your job, how you should build your business and how you should overcome failure.
- The career path that took Shimona Mehta to become MD
- Making the move from consumer goods to tech
- How Shimona built career progression
- The journey of setting up Shopify in London
- What Shimona looks for when she hires
- Shimona's experience with imposter syndrome
- How Shimona became a good leader
- The barriers Shimona has come across
- The importance of managerial training
- Why we need women in tech
- Diversity and recruitment
- How to start your side hustle
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| 0:32.3 | Hire first for character and values and integrity. Everything else can be taught. We looked for people that we knew |
| 0:39.9 | we're going to become allies for each other and want to create the right environment for each other. |
| 0:44.6 | If there's even a bit of a flag during the interview process on that, those folks are out. |
| 0:49.2 | Do these people look like they're learners? Had they reached their ceiling or are they actually |
| 0:53.0 | still on an upward trajectory in their career |
| 0:55.1 | and in their skill set and what they're doing? |
| 0:57.3 | If we don't have great diversity in the teams |
| 1:01.3 | that are building the technology, |
| 1:02.8 | then they'll be biased in the technology that gets built. |
| 1:05.4 | Does this person speak English? |
| 1:07.0 | Because with her name, it sounds like there might be |
| 1:08.7 | an accent issue. |
| 1:10.2 | So like that in itself has been like... |
| 1:11.6 | It's so problematic. |
| 1:13.6 | Hey guys, welcome back. I talked to Shimonah Ameta, who is none other than the managing director of Amir for Shopify, which is an incredible job title. And we talk about her whole career, how she kind of worked her way up in corporate. She started in consumer goods, moved over to tech. I think we touched on quite a few very important points, |
| 1:45.6 | if I do say so myself. I personally learned a lot throughout the course of the podcast, |
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