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☆ Mathilde Collin built a $1.7 billion email startup by the time she was 32. She's now stepping back at an inflection point for Front.
  + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
And so last fall, Collin kicked off a search for a new board director, to fill in her knowledge gaps. Now, Collin says she will step down as chief executive of Front after her hunt for a board director took an unexpected turn. She will move into an executive chair role on April 15, when O'Connell takes up the mantle as chief executive, Front tells Business Insider exclusively. Known for her sharp wit and radical candor, Collin started the business out of college in her native France. Advertisement"We're at a scale now where the CEO can't come in and sort of wave the proverbial magic wand and make things happen," said Mohammed Attar, Front's chief product officer.
Persons: Mathilde Collin, Collin, Dan O'Connell, O'Connell, Garry Tan, Paul Buchheit, Jack Altman, Kyle Vogt, Cruise, Jeff Lawson, Mohammed Attar, —, Josh Stein, Stein Organizations: Service, Business, Dialpad, Front Locations: San Francisco neighborhood, France, Dialpad
☆ The CEO of a $2.2 billion tech startup—who’s sold companies to Yahoo and Google—shares the common mistake he’s avoided
  + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
Craig Walker has sold startups to Yahoo and Google, and his current business, cloud communications company Dialpad, is valued at $2.2 billion. Still, the CEO says he learned his most important business lesson watching a "goofy" 1970s racing comedy, called "The Gumball Rally." But, Walker has been running internet communications companies for more than two decades, and he says he's seen "a lot of entrepreneurs" make the mistake of reacting to their competition: "They'll change their roadmap. When the internet bubble burst, an internet communications company he'd backed was floundering and in need of a steady hand. This time, Walker stayed on at Google for nearly four years, leading the transition of his former business into the Google Voice platform.
Persons: Craig Walker, Walker, Raul Julia's, I'm, he's Organizations: Yahoo, Google, CNBC, Microsoft's, Dialpad Communications, GrandCentral Communications, ICONIQ Capital Locations: Raul Julia's Italian
☆ The lucky breaks that built Nike
  + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Fittingly as "Air" hits theaters, Nike will release an Air Jordan in "lucky green." "Luck plays a big role," Nike cofounder Phil Knight wrote in the closing of his 2016 memoir, "Shoe Dog." Athletes get lucky, poets get lucky, businesses get lucky." Knight wrote. Next Wednesday, Nike will release the "Black and Lucky Green" Air Jordan 1.
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