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Ask the Entrepreneurs: Advice to Ignore
At the 2022 Builders and Innovators Summit, we asked entrepreneurs about advice they’re glad they never took. While these founders were set on big visions, some early advisors said to manage expectations, slim down, sell products at lower prices or even sell the whole company.
Ask the Entrepreneurs: Managing Growth
At the 2022 Builders and Innovators Summit, entrepreneurs explained how they’re managing growth in a challenging operational environment. Among the takeaways: cash flow is critically important – but so is staying committed to a long-term vision.
Ask the Entrepreneurs: Leading Teams
At the 2022 Builders and Innovators Summit, entrepreneurs told us what’s key to leading a team through uncertain times. They said the most challenging part is not only finding the best talent but reminding employees to shift their focus towards the things within their control.
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Maverick Carter, CEO/Co-founder, SpringHill Company
At the 2022 Builders and Innovators Summit, Maverick Carter, co-founder and CEO of the SpringHill Company, shares his insights on building an athlete empowerment content and brand company with LeBron James.
George Kurtz, CEO/Co-founder, CrowdStrike
George Kurtz, CEO and co-founder of CrowdStrike, discusses the current cyberthreat landscape and his strategy to drive innovation and lead in the cybersecurity space.
Ask the Entrepreneurs: Advice to Ignore
At the 2022 Builders and Innovators Summit, we asked entrepreneurs about advice they’re glad they never took. While these founders were set on big visions, some early advisors said to manage expectations, slim down, sell products at lower prices or even sell the whole company.
Ask the Entrepreneurs: Leading Teams
At the 2022 Builders and Innovators Summit, entrepreneurs told us what’s key to leading a team through uncertain times. They said the most challenging part is not only finding the best talent but reminding employees to shift their focus towards the things within their control.
Ask the Entrepreneurs: Managing Growth
At the 2022 Builders and Innovators Summit, entrepreneurs explained how they’re managing growth in a challenging operational environment. Among the takeaways: cash flow is critically important – but so is staying committed to a long-term vision.
Navigating Macro Headwinds: A Conversation With the Founders of Brex and Chief
What’s top of mind for exceptional entrepreneurs? In this episode of Exchanges at Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs’ Kim Posnett, global head of Investment Banking Services, sat down with two company founders — Henrique Dubugras, co-founder and co-CEO at Brex and Carolyn Childers, co-founder and CEO at Chief — to discuss their founder journeys, how their businesses are adapting to a challenging macro environment, and what they are most optimistic about for their futures. The episode was recorded at the firm’s annual Builders and Innovators Summit.
Builders and Innovators 2022
The Builders and Innovators Summit convenes exceptional entrepreneurs from a multitude of industries. To better understand this year’s class, we asked them about everything from their revenue growth to what they wake up thinking about in the morning – and this is what we learned.
Mahmee: Reinventing Healthcare for New Mothers
Melissa Hanna built Mahmee to address inequities in maternal healthcare, focusing first on new digital tools that could help the industry reduce negative outcomes. But what started as a software-as-a-service platform has since evolved into a vision for something even bigger: a nationwide workforce of providers that can deliver personalized maternity care at scale.
Solugen: Creating Cleaner Chemicals
Traditional industrial chemical plants produce unwanted side products that pose significant environmental risks. While still students, Gaurab Chakrabarti and Sean Hunt invented a manufacturing process that largely avoids those side products. Today they run Solugen, a manufacturer of carbon-negative chemical products that serve multiple industrial segments.
Pacific Ag: Transforming Agriculture into Renewable Resources
Bill Levy built a business clearing crop residue from farms across the country and shipping it to customers with a need. But as the sustainability movement gained steam, he saw that residue could play a major role in the renewable products of the future – and pivoted to address those emerging markets. Now Pacific Ag is using crop residue to manufacture both fuel and molded fiber packaging – and those are just the initial applications.
Verge Genomics: Harnessing AI to Develop New Drugs
Alice Zhang was a graduate student in neuroscience when she realized that the drug discovery process could be revolutionized by rapid advances in multiple fields. Then she decided that she’d be the one to revolutionize it. Today, she leads Verge Genomics, which aims to develop better drugs faster using artificial intelligence and an “all-in-human” approach.
ICON: Deploying Robots to Build Better Houses
When Jason Ballard started thinking about ways to alleviate the lack of affordable housing in the U.S., it wasn’t long before he came to see robotic construction as a critical part of the solution. Today his company ICON is known for using large-scale 3D printers to help build homes – and he’s looking to scale up very quickly.