Ep 82: How Carta Built a Legal Team from Scratch & Scaled 10X with April Lindauer, GC

How do you build a fintech juggernaut and redefine how employees think about ownership in businesses, navigate regulatory roadblocks along the way, and build a global team to make it happen?

Join April Lindauer, General Counsel at Carta, as she discusses her start-up’s tremendous journey from 200 employees to more than 2000, as the software platform that allows users to manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow as they expand into an ever-growing list of international markets.

Listen as April offers tips for working with regulators, navigating several financing rounds, building out legal operations, working with great outside partners, and hiring the perfect team, and much more.

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Topics:
Introduction: 0:00
Joining Carta and overseeing tremendous growth: 1:58
Cultivating a career in financial services: 4:10
Carta’s growth from 200 employees to 2000: 6:26
Transitioning from deputy general counsel to general counsel: 8:23
Hiring for a global legal team: 12:30
Navigating the GC role during the COVID-19 pandemic: 14:34
Working with the executive team to make tough decisions: 16:57
Working with financial regulators: 18:22
Leading legal through multiple financing rounds: 22:21
Leveraging Carta’s wealth of data: 24:21
Rapid-fire questions: 27:48
Book recommendations: 29:00
What you wish you’d known as a young lawyer: 30:36

Connect with us:
April Lindauer - https://www.linkedin.com/in/april-lindauer-2174104/
Tyler Finn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhfinn
SpotDraft - https://www.linkedin.com/company/spotdraft

SpotDraft is a leading contract lifecycle management platform that solves your end-to-end contract management issues.

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