
The Zuora CMO built his career by translating software into stories, then testing whether those stories survive contact with the product, the customer and time itself.

He built the first revenue recognition software in 2009, sold it to Zuora, then walked away to do it again - properly this time. A story about second acts in an unglamorous corner of accounting.

Magdalena Yesil is a Silicon Valley pioneer who arrived in the US at 17 with two suitcases and $43 to her name, earned three degrees from Stanford, and went on to become the first outside investor and founding board member of Salesforce. A serial entrepreneur who co-founded CyberCash (one of the internet's first secure payment systems) and MarketPay, she spent eight years as a General Partner at US Venture Partners before co-founding Informed.IQ, an AI-powered document processing platform that has enabled over $350 billion in consumer loan originations. Author of 'Power UP: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy' and co-founder of Broadway Angels, she sits on the boards of SoFi Technologies, Smartsheet, and Zuora.