Built in Seattle with Adam Schoenfeld - Kelly Breslin Wright (Board Director, Former Tableau EVP) on making values work, the missionary sale, and what really matters

Kelly Wright grew sales from $0 to $850M over 12 years as EVP at Tableau. Now she's a Board Director at Fastly, Lucid, Amperity, and more. She goes behind the scenes on her leadership lessons and what really matters in company building.

Nov 11, 2021

Laura Jennings (Founder & CEO at Knack) on developing a vision, responding to failure, and letting go of other what other people think

After a long career as a VP at Microsoft in the 80s and 90s, Laura Jennings had a big vision for eCommerce. After founding Knack, her masterplan didn't play out exactly as designed. She was working out of a basement, shipping boxes, and learning how to sell merchandise with little experience. Her principles remained, but she updated her strategy after watching and listening. She created a culture that responds to mistakes by asking "what are we going to do about it?" instead of "who is at fault?" Now Knack is a growing profitable business and Laura is still looking forward.

37 min