
The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal
Kelly Godfrey: Growing up with 3 brothers in the UK, How she reached marketing director and country GM at global tech unicorns, ancestry.com and StockX!
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Welcome to episode #93 w Kelly Godfrey! Please enjoy.
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TIMESTAMPS
02:02 - What was your first job and now?
02:40 - High Flyer in xx life
03:34 - Family memories
05:16 - Mum’s influence
07:19 - Gymnasts training 4x a week
08:46 - London and Brighton
10:41 - Success at age 18
12:03 - Painful learning
14:48 - Becoming Marketing Director within 6 years
18:09 - Building social capital
21:52 - Agency to in house marketing
25:33 - Leading marketing for ancestry.com
29:15 - Role of marketing in customer discovery
30:35 - Moving roles and countries at same time
35:15 - Success in first 3 months of new role
40:34 - Taking a sabbatical in 2018
46:57 - Exploring opportunities post sabbatical
50:47 - Learnings about growth in new markets
54:00 - StockX being at the cutting edge of culture
56:07 - Rapid fire