Startup Leadership During Uncertain Times

About The Talk

On Thursday, April 9th, we’ll be speaking with Rachel Renock, Co-founder & CEO of Wethos and Peter Pezaris, Co-founder & CEO of Codesteram about being a leader for your team.

Join us at 10 AM ET as we dive into leading teams (especially through periods of uncertainty), and their experience being CEOs for their current past startups.

Our Guest

Rachel Renock

Co-founder & CEO of Wethos

Rachel is the CEO and a Co-Founder of Wethos, a platform that deploys responsive teams of creative and marketing specialists to help meaningful brands stay competitive in a rapidly-evolving digital landscape. Through its innovative technology, Wethos is able to instantly price complex work and assemble, onboard and kickoff a custom-built team in less than a week. As an activist and former advertising creative, Rachel has been featured in the New York Times, on NBC, and on stage at Politico for breaking the silence on a culture of sexism and sexual harassment in tech. She believes that now more than ever people must come together at 100x the speed they do today to accelerate progress in a fast-paced world.

Peter Pezaris

Co-founder & CEO of Codestream

Peter is the Founder & CEO of CodeStream, a service that helps development teams discuss, review, and understand code. Prior to CodeStream, Peter was Founder & CEO of Glip, a team collaboration platform acquired by RingCentral in 2015, and Multiply.com, a social commerce platform acquired by Naspers in 2010. He also founded Commissioner.com, one of the first online fantasy sports platforms, which was acquired by CBS in 1999. A seasoned entrepreneur and tech executive, Peter is a recognized expert in the collaboration and social networking space, pioneering several of today’s most commonly used features in real-time messaging. Peter holds BS degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.

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