Molly Schonthal on Winning the Customer Experience - 2018 Core Summit
As the former Global Director of Digital Technology and the Digital Center of Excellence at Mars Global, Molly Schonthal built the first cross-functional (sales +marketing), cross-segment global demand technology roadmap. Now, newly appointed to the role of Vice President of Strategy & Innovation at Salsify, Schonthal will help Salsify’s customers imagine the future and balance what’s needed with what’s next. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsRNPsaU23c
ADay Co-founders, Rahkeem Morris and Rob Snyder, talk about transforming scheduling and compliance for hourly workers.
Sixty percent of Americans work an hourly position. Many struggle to maintain a predictable schedule and are forced to work undesirable shifts to make ends meet. Employers, on the other hand, face high turnover and narrowing margins due to a lack of managerial efficiency.
Enter Aday Technologies, an HBS-founded startup that automates scheduling and compliance for hourly employees based on the constraints of managers. Part-time employees obtain the ability to schedule themselves in both short-term and long-term shifts based on pre-defined rules. Then, managers can review employee performance and handle compliance with union contracts, directly within the platform.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DgEcDtl5Ec
Jeremy Allaire's first company, Allaire Corp, pioneered the Web application development platform and grew to become a profitable $120 million in revenue, NASDAQ-traded public company. Allaire Corp was later acquired by Macromedia, where Jeremy became CTO and helped transform Flash into a platform for rich applications and video that became the most widely adopted piece of software in the history of computing. Jeremy would go on to found Brightcove, which grew to become a profitable $120 million in revenue, NASDAQ-traded public company. Today, Jeremy is founder and CEO of Circle, a consumer finance company focused on transforming the world economy with secure, simple, and less costly technology for storing and using money.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEPeSJTKvB4
Lightening Talk given by Joe Zhous (CEO at FirstBlood) at the 2018 Underscore VC Blockchain Core Summit on Esports & Crypto
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsiRkTcuL4Y