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

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

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Hey listeners, it's Alex Morris, a star writer here at Massive Scale.
0:04.1	Every week on Massive Scale Rapid Response, you hear real insights from business leaders,
0:09.5	and many of you have said that these episodes help you make more informed decisions in fast
0:13.9	changing situations.
0:15.6	So we want to tell you about another fantastic business podcast that can help you stay
0:20.4	in the know.
0:21.4	It's called Business Daily from the BBC, and it's all about the daily drama of money and
0:26.3	work.
0:27.3	From the environment to the world economy, you'll hear all about the rapidly evolving
0:31.4	world of business on a global scale.
0:34.1	There are new episodes of Business Daily every day, Monday through Friday, and you can listen
0:39.0	wherever you get your BBC podcast.
0:41.6	Again, that's Business Daily from the BBC.
0:45.7	There's the old adage of it gets lonely at the top, but for women it gets lonely a lot
0:52.0	earlier. There's 5.5 million women who are VP and above in the US, but they actually don't
0:59.7	really have a great community or resources to continue to grow as leaders.
1:05.8	We launched Chief with 100 great women in New York, and we built a wait list of thousands
1:12.9	of women across the nation.
1:16.6	It's a multitude of services that you get at Chief.
1:20.4	There's a LinkedIn-like product.
1:22.7	There's also a masterclass-like product, and then there's almost like a dating app
1:28.3	aspects to it.
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