What's at Stake for Chief?

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There's a misconception around how much this is really focused on a group of amazing, professional women that are supporting each other in leadership. 70 % of our members are sponsored by their companies as a way of investing in them as leaders. We have just an incredibly engaged, supportive community that really alines with this mission. And we went and raised this capital because there's so much more opportunity for us.

Amid pandemic disruption, Chief turned a small, NYC-based club for women executives into a national phenomenon with more than 12,000 members. Co-founder and CEO Carolyn Childers joins Rapid Response to share how she and co-founder Lindsay Kaplan managed the unlikely transformation, which recently yielded a $100 million Series B funding round. She reveals how the company leveraged existing tech and their own innovations to build connections, identifying not just a gap in the marketplace but a need for a whole new set of tools to support business leaders.

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