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Garry Tan is the next president and CEO of Y Combinator

TechCrunch

Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012. Ralston continued.

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In Love, In Partnership: How One Couple Finds Success at Home and at Work

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2015, the Slaters sold the legacy to explore other endeavors. Kelvin serves on the Georgia Restaurant Association’s board of directors. How has your EO experience impacted your entrepreneurial journey and leadership style? They’re invaluable as a sounding board for support and advice. In Their Words. Discover EO today!

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A Few Surefire Ways to Support the UN SDGs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2015, inspired by Elon Musk and the story of Tesla, Steve was searching for a way to shore up his personal and professional commitment to being the change he wanted to see in the world. This [focus on SDG 4] turned things around and gave our board purpose, excitement and unity,” Steve says. There were no smiles or excitement.

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How to Grow Your Chapter’s Accelerator Program

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It’s an outstanding avenue for members to give back, especially if serving on the chapter board is not an option. The Atlanta EO chapter had a relatively small Accelerator program with 10 to 15 participants—or companies—and only one EO member overseeing the program on the chapter board. We transitioned to a quarterly membership cycle.

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Four Steps to Making Customer Service an Organizational Priority

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The original version of this article appeared on Resonate’s blog. Now that your goals are set and the organization is on board, it’s important to track progress and make it easy for employees to understand how, specifically, they can improve customer experience. He joined EO in 2015.

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Reflections from the Womenomics 2.0 Event at the Brookings Institute

Entrepreneurs' Organization

” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno. If you want to travel far, travel together.”

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walk

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. AM: Getting to work on the Box IPO was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done.

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