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Rapid Response: Lyft’s John Zimmer: How to keep an essential business running
Everything starts with transportation, says John Zimmer, co-founder and president of Lyft. And even though ride sharing is sharply down, transportati…
5 years, 11 months ago
Rapid Response: A playbook for when "there’s no playbook," w/CEO Ellen Kullman (Carbon, DuPont)
How do you survive a crisis? You create your own trajectory, says Ellen Kullman. And she knows: In her former role, she became CEO of the chemical en…
5 years, 11 months ago
Rapid Response: Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: "Crisis is pushing us back to our roots"
As the pandemic hit, Airbnb was preparing for an IPO. Within a matter of days, everything changed dramatically, as travel worldwide screamed to a hal…
5 years, 11 months ago
Rapid Response: Fast pivots for changing needs w/DonorsChoose Charles Best
People are altruistic – even more so in times of uncertainty. This is what Charles Best, founder and CEO of DonorsChoose, has learned through 20 year…
5 years, 11 months ago
Rapid Response: Relief funding & crowdfunding in a crisis w/Karen Cahn of IFundWomen
What are your options for emergency funding in the US? Can you use the U.S. CARES Act to get financial assistance? Should you consider crowdfunding? …
5 years, 11 months ago
Rapid Response: Crisis data is the story of our times, says Crisis Text Line founder
"Anxiety," "grief," "mom”: These are the words surfacing at this extreme moment in time. That data comes from Crisis Text Line, whose online counselo…
5 years, 11 months ago
Rapid Response: Hourly workers are a ‘hero class’ w/Cue Ball’s Tony Tjan
Hourly workers are the 'hero class,' says VC Tony Tjan. And the pandemic is wreaking havoc on their financial stability. At Boston’s Cue Ball Group, …
5 years, 11 months ago
Rapid Response: First, be human – Thoughts on the crisis from Reid Hoffman
Can you blitzscale when the world grinds to a halt? How do you do right by your team AND your investors? What will the entrepreneurial world look lik…
5 years, 11 months ago
Rapid Response: Danny Meyer on the wrenching decision to do layoffs
Last week, Danny Meyer laid off 2,000 people – that's 80 percent of staff at Union Square Hospitality Group, representing 20+ restaurants across the …
5 years, 11 months ago
Rapid Response: Remote teams, w/WordPress/Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg
The first in a series of special episodes with tools you need RIGHT NOW | Suddenly, many of us are remote workers. As companies radically reimagine t…
5 years, 11 months ago