Most people (56.8%) around the world identify as introverts, according to a 2020 study from The Myers-Briggs Company. Those with an introverted personality are often reflective and self-aware, prefer to write rather than speak and feel tired after being in a crowd. Naturally, many introverts aren’t big fans of public speaking. Addressing an audience might...
Karen Brodkin, co-head of William Morris Endeavor (WME) Sports and executive vice president at Endeavor, oversees the representation of some of the biggest names in sports, spanning the NFL, NBA, MLB, tennis, golf, soccer, Olympic and action sports, and more. She’s closed hundreds of deals with partners across every distribution platform over the course of...
Women drive 70%-80% of consumer purchasing, and companies with at least one woman on their board have a higher return on equity than those that do not, the Women on Boards Project states on its website — yet women occupy just 20% of board seats globally and aren’t expected to reach gender parity for decades,...
Advait Shinde, co-founder and former CEO of educational software company GoGuardian, spent a decade building a business that optimizes digital learning experiences at scale — all the way to a $1 billion valuation. It began in 2014 when Shinde and his co-founders Aza Steel, R. Todd Mackey and Tyler Shaddix “accidentally timed the market perfectly,”...
At 20 years old, Voyo Popovic, now the founder and CEO of Piece of Cake Moving & Storage, immigrated to the U.S. from Montenegro and took a job at a McDonald’s to make ends meet. However, just a few months in, Popovic was already looking for his next opportunity, one that would allow him to...
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lylette Pizarro, founder and co-managing partner of Influence Media Partners, a New York-headquartered music and entertainment company “whose mission is to transform the music space by partnering with artists, songwriters and creative executives to steward legacy works and build future brand value.” In 2022, Pizarro secured...