This Week in Startups: Accelerating leadership - Chief Co-Founder & CEO Carolyn Childers on raising $100M Series B, building a women's executive network and more | E1463

Molly speaks with Carolyn Childers, CEO of Chief, a women’s professional network (01:26) about how their community stretches across digital and physical spaces, accelerating women's executive careers, growing with word-of-mouth as marketing (30:08), their $100M raise (33:22), augmenting Linkedin (39:18) and more.

(00:00) Cold open

(01:26) Molly speaks with Carolyn Childers, CEO of Chief (a women’s professional network)

(11:09) Coda - The All-in-one doc for teams, get a $1,000 credit at https://coda.io/twist

(12:24) The SoHo club factor of Chief: how its spaces work

(15:05) What does Chief’s roadmap look like?

(20:52) Dell For Startups - Apply and get up to 45% off at http://dell.com/twist

(22:05) Carolyn talks about some of Chief’s early investors

(30:08) Word-of-mouth as marketing, reducing churn with an expensive ask

(32:17) Odoo - Get your first app free and a $1000 credit at https://odoo.com/twist

(33:22) How will Chief deploy their $100M raise?

(36:20) What happens on the app?

(38:35) Can you switch core groups in Chief?

(39:18) Engagement: does Chief replace LinkedIn?

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