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6 Leadership Lessons Learned from the Founder of EO

Entrepreneurs' Organization

What better acknowledgement of World Entrepreneurs’ Day (WED) —a day devoted to celebrating the leadership and innovation that entrepreneurs bring—than by sharing lessons learned from the founder of EO, Verne Harnish? The post 6 Leadership Lessons Learned from the Founder of EO appeared first on THE BLOG. Here they are: 1.

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20 Leadership Academy Graduates in 2015

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Congratulations to the 2015 EO Leadership Academy Graduates! We would like to congratulate the EO Leadership Academy Class of 2015! We’ll post new pictures, stories, videos and memes every day on: Octane blog , Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and Instagram.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. And a special thank you to Heather Brunner, our CEO for the past four and a half years. Long-time readers of this (11-year old!!) Period, full-stop.

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[Beyond Meat in Forbes] Beyond Meat CFO Mark Nelson To Retire: How The Company Disrupted The Global Meat Industry Under His Leadership

OurCrowd

Named “Innovator of the Year” in 2019, Beyond Meat CFO Mark Nelson will retire from the plant-based company on May 5, 2021, after joining the company in December 2015. He will then enter into a consulting agreement with Beyond Meat beginning May 6, 2021, until May 5, 2023. Read more here.

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One woman’s path to financial empowerment leads the way

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

At the age of 21, with a nudge from my mentor, I started teaching myself how to invest in the local stock market and, as I was learning, shared my knowledge with others through a blog. At the beginning of 2015, I started a “figure-it-out fund” and used a percentage of Accessories & Essentials’ sales over the next few months to finance it.

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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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Q&A with EO’s 2017 Global Citizen of the Year: Cameron Madill

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In April 2017 at EO’s Global Leadership Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Cameron Madill was named EO’s Global Citizen of the Year. For me, this entire project grew out of an impulsive decision to volunteer for a week in a refugee prison back in June 2015. with a goal of growing from three sites to more than 100 by the end of 2018.