Before mindbodygreen sold courses, products and live experiences, Wachob learned the unforgiving arithmetic of retail. Her quieter achievement was turning that discipline into a company built on trust.

The goop CMO has built a career in the narrow aisle between feeling and finance. Her useful trick is to make content, commerce and customer behavior answer the same question.
Katia Ameri is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) focused on the intersection of consumer and technology. An LA native of Iranian descent and Stanford graduate, she was the first investment hire at Pear VC, then founded Mirra - a skincare company that grew to 200,000+ newsletter subscribers with zero ad spend - before joining a16z in 2021. At a16z she leads consumer investments, runs the Speedrun accelerator program, and is the founder of Tech Week by a16z, a decentralized conference series in SF, LA, and NYC that drew 40,000+ attendees and 1,000+ events in New York alone.