Laela Sturdy

Chief is the private network executive women rely on to maximize their leadership impact through access to a vetted executive community and valuable insights. Founded in 2019, Chief is the largest community of senior executive women, representing more than 10,000 companies and 77% of the Fortune 100. Chief has been recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. Visit Chief.com to learn more or apply for membership. More about Chief: What began as a vision to support women in corporate leadership is now the largest community of senior women executives in the United States. Chief helps women executives raise their leadership game. Chief’s customized membership packages include executive development services, along with in-person and virtual community events, and access to a powerful community where members can build meaningful relationships to unlock transformative professional outcomes. Our dedicated Concierge team provides personalized support to connect members with the most relevant resources and events for their goals. Our Membership Packages: Executive Advisory helps members navigate leadership challenges alongside a thoughtfully curated group of 8–12 professional peers who meet regularly, fostering accountability and collective wisdom. Executive Coaching helps members tackle timely leadership challenges with four or eight sessions of personalized, one-on-one guidance from a vetted executive coach. Executive Education helps members strengthen their foundational leadership competencies through live, structured workshops led by world-renowned business academics.

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the US, UK, and Europe. Millions of people come to Whatnot every day to buy, sell, and connect over the things they love, from sneakers to sports cards, vintage fashion to fine jewelry, comics to Pokémon, beauty, electronics, and hundreds of other categories. In 2025, live sales on Whatnot surpassed $8B, more than doubling the year before. Over 20 million accounts were created last year alone, and we have been the #1 shopping app in both the US and UK. Weve built a real business, but were nowhere near done. Live commerce at this scale has never been done in the West, which means the people here now are shaping how an entirely new industry develops. The pace here is fast and the expectations are high. We move quickly, prioritize ruthlessly, and trust people to own their work end-to-end. In return, careers grow faster, impact is real, and your colleagues will raise your standards. Its an environment built for people who want to do the best work of their careers alongside others doing the same. Were a remote, co-located team with hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, and were hiring across every function.

Curated was founded in 2017 with a mission to humanize online shopping. We’ve built a collaborative shopping experience brought to life with a community of passionate experts. Every shopper on Curated gets one-on-one personalized advice to find the right products for their needs so they can enjoy more of what they love. Through our expert community, Curated has created a new type of knowledge-based work that enables people to earn meaningful income related to the activities and products they are passionate about, from anywhere. Backed by Forerunner Ventures, Greylock, and Capital G, the company is growing fast. We currently specialize in outdoor sporting goods including skiing, snowboarding, golf, camping, cycling, fishing equipment with many new verticals coming soon!

Webflow is the AI-native Website Experience Platform powering digital experiences that strengthen brands and drive growth.

Named one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2026 by Forbes, Unqork is the leading AI-first enterprise development platform, empowering organizations to build and operate AI-generated applications with greater control, predictability, and governance. By governing the use of AI across the development lifecycle, Unqork helps enterprises accelerate digital transformation while reducing risk and total cost of ownership. Trusted by the world’s largest organizations in highly regulated industries, Unqork’s customers include Goldman Sachs, Marsh, BlackRock, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. To learn more, visit: https://www.unqork.com

Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.

Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We’re on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We’re moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that. Here, entrepreneurs, self-starters, team players, and big thinkers unite behind a common cause. Here, we’re applying data analytics, AI and the latest technologies to solve universal problems and connect people in new ways. If you like having autonomy, if you thrive on collaboration and building new things, and if you’re all about using your talent for good, Care.com is the place for you.

Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Learning a new language is hard, but staying motivated is often the hardest part. That’s why we use fun, bite-sized, game-like lessons designed to keep you engaged and to drive real learning outcomes. Our approach is grounded in efficacy: we continuously test and improve our methods to ensure learners make meaningful progress. We also believe in democratizing education by offering an effective, high-quality free product. Developing a great free product is essential to our mission, ensuring that anyone with a smartphone can access learning that works. When it comes to utilizing AI tools, we have a golden rule: we use it when it clearly improves outcomes for learners. We don’t use it as a shortcut or a replacement for people, but as a tool to enhance learning experiences and efficacy. Duolingo has been named to: Fast Company’s Most Innovative Education Company (2026, 2022), Apple Design Award (2023), TIME100 Most Influential Companies (2023), Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators (2022), among others.

Our mission is to grow the small business economy 🤝 Trusted by 400K+ businesses with HR, payroll, benefits, 401(k)s, and more. Licensing details: https://gusto.com/about/licenses

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business. Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.

On Glassdoor, you can connect anonymously with coworkers and professionals like you and get answers to your career questions. Plus, search for jobs, company reviews, salaries, and more—so you can make your next move with confidence.

Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 140 million members globally. While were best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts* – all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London, Bangalore, and New York City. *Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC

Chief is the private network executive women rely on to maximize their leadership impact through access to a vetted executive community and valuable insights. Founded in 2019, Chief is the largest community of senior executive women, representing more than 10,000 companies and 77% of the Fortune 100. Chief has been recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. Visit Chief.com to learn more or apply for membership. More about Chief: What began as a vision to support women in corporate leadership is now the largest community of senior women executives in the United States. Chief helps women executives raise their leadership game. Chief’s customized membership packages include executive development services, along with in-person and virtual community events, and access to a powerful community where members can build meaningful relationships to unlock transformative professional outcomes. Our dedicated Concierge team provides personalized support to connect members with the most relevant resources and events for their goals. Our Membership Packages: Executive Advisory helps members navigate leadership challenges alongside a thoughtfully curated group of 8–12 professional peers who meet regularly, fostering accountability and collective wisdom. Executive Coaching helps members tackle timely leadership challenges with four or eight sessions of personalized, one-on-one guidance from a vetted executive coach. Executive Education helps members strengthen their foundational leadership competencies through live, structured workshops led by world-renowned business academics.

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the US, UK, and Europe. Millions of people come to Whatnot every day to buy, sell, and connect over the things they love, from sneakers to sports cards, vintage fashion to fine jewelry, comics to Pokémon, beauty, electronics, and hundreds of other categories. In 2025, live sales on Whatnot surpassed $8B, more than doubling the year before. Over 20 million accounts were created last year alone, and we have been the #1 shopping app in both the US and UK. Weve built a real business, but were nowhere near done. Live commerce at this scale has never been done in the West, which means the people here now are shaping how an entirely new industry develops. The pace here is fast and the expectations are high. We move quickly, prioritize ruthlessly, and trust people to own their work end-to-end. In return, careers grow faster, impact is real, and your colleagues will raise your standards. Its an environment built for people who want to do the best work of their careers alongside others doing the same. Were a remote, co-located team with hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, and were hiring across every function.

Curated was founded in 2017 with a mission to humanize online shopping. We’ve built a collaborative shopping experience brought to life with a community of passionate experts. Every shopper on Curated gets one-on-one personalized advice to find the right products for their needs so they can enjoy more of what they love. Through our expert community, Curated has created a new type of knowledge-based work that enables people to earn meaningful income related to the activities and products they are passionate about, from anywhere. Backed by Forerunner Ventures, Greylock, and Capital G, the company is growing fast. We currently specialize in outdoor sporting goods including skiing, snowboarding, golf, camping, cycling, fishing equipment with many new verticals coming soon!

Webflow is the AI-native Website Experience Platform powering digital experiences that strengthen brands and drive growth.

Named one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2026 by Forbes, Unqork is the leading AI-first enterprise development platform, empowering organizations to build and operate AI-generated applications with greater control, predictability, and governance. By governing the use of AI across the development lifecycle, Unqork helps enterprises accelerate digital transformation while reducing risk and total cost of ownership. Trusted by the world’s largest organizations in highly regulated industries, Unqork’s customers include Goldman Sachs, Marsh, BlackRock, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. To learn more, visit: https://www.unqork.com