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MaryBeth Hyland founded Spark Vision to assist organisations in establishing collaborative, inclusive workplace environments. In particular, they specialise in millennial workforce engagement, providing courses to assist businesses with building cooperation and improving relationships among employees. Hyland; sadly a child of abuse; has often struggled with her self-esteem and confidence in her life. She has sought … Read more
It’s not enough to have a fantastic concept, your venture won’t thrive if you don’t have the resources to make it a reality. This tricky conundrum inspired Danae Ringelmann to create the successful crowdsourcing platform Indiegogo, with partners Eric Schell and Slava Rubin. Their aim was to let anyone who isn’t breaking the law and … Read more
John Collison was just 27 years old when he became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. Prior to dropping out of Harvard, John and his brother Patrick founded Automatic, a firm that offered back-end technology to eBay. In 2008, the team then sold the firm for a whopping $5 million! Pursuing John’s objective to revolutionise the … Read more
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, a cryptocurrency start-up in the United States, had long viewed the internet as a vehicle for reshaping the world. For a long time though, he feared he was too late to the game; with others, such as Apple’s Steve Jobs and Intel’s Andy Grove, having led the internet revolution. Armstrong’s … Read more
This ideology is personified in Scott Lee’s story. While still in high school in South Korea, Scott established his first business, Peertutor. Since then, he’s returned to the Korean army, started an online apparel shop, worked for JPMorgan, and served as an Olympic advisor in Pyeongchang in 2018. After everything, he’s returned to his roots … Read more
Brian Chesky, a former industrial design student, had no meaningful business expertise when he co-founded Airbnb with Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk. Despite this relative inexperience, their home-sharing website is now valued at $31 billion. Airbnb’s revenue even increased a remarkable 50% between 2016 to 2017. Chesky has pushed his organisation to new heights, year, … Read more
Mårten Mickos is the recent CEO of HackerOne, one of the most well-known white-hat hacking platforms in the world. Mickos was the CEO of MySQL, a Swedish software business, prior to joining HackerOne. “Confidence, persistence, and leadership,” according to Mickos, have helped him grow as a leader. As bizarre as it may sound, Mickos’ confidence … Read more
Adam Neumann is the co-founder of WeWork, a company which provides shared workspaces to start-ups and freelancers. He used to sell baby clothes and admits he couldn’t even afford a proper lunch until refocusing… and starting a multibillion-dollar business! Neumann admits he was initially obsessed with making money, but claims things began to progress better … Read more
Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, joined the company in 2008 and is credited for helping to turn it profitable as the brains behind the introduction of subtly placed advertising. By 2013, Facebook’s mobile advertising accounted for 30% of the company’s sales, even though this outlet had provided no returns the previous year. Sandberg’s bestselling … Read more
Evan Spiegel, a co-founder of Snap Inc. and developer of the popular social media site Snapchat, grew his small student project into a multibillion-dollar corporation. According to Spiegel, his ‘99 per cent law’, is the key to Snapchat’s growth. Perhaps counterintuitively, this involves rejecting 99 per cent of suggestions and ideas! In 2013, when Facebook … Read more
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