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Arianna Huffington Has Changed the Subject Again
She built a publication around the internet's appetite for more. Her second company is built around a harder proposition: that progress can begin with less, done deliberately.
Brent Chudoba
Brent Chudoba is the CEO of Biteable, a remote-first video creation platform that has helped more than seven million people make studio-quality videos. He spent a decade as a senior operator (COO, CFO, CRO and GM roles) at some of the internet's best-known productivity companies including Calendly, Thrive Global, PicMonkey and SurveyMonkey, where he was employee number fourteen. Before operating, he was an investor at Spectrum Equity and an investment banker at Piper Jaffray. Today he also teaches a cohort-based course on Maven, Startup Leadership Unleashed, distilling what he learned scaling teams.
Christopher O'Donnell
Christopher O'Donnell is the co-founder and CEO of Day.ai, an AI-native CRM that captures customer relationship context automatically so people stop doing manual data entry. He spent roughly a decade as Chief Product Officer at HubSpot, where he led the 'startup within a startup' that turned a marketing tool into a CRM capable of challenging Salesforce. He founded Day.ai in April 2023 with longtime HubSpot colleague Michael Pici, and the company raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia. Off the clock, O'Donnell is a guitarist, singer and songwriter who fronts the Boston rock band The Providers.