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Meet Maëlle

Maëlle Gavet has been a leading technology executive and entrepreneur for over 15 years.

One of the tech industry’s brightest stars, Maëlle Gavet has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, one of Fortune’s 40 Under 40, one of the Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and was fifth among Time magazine’s List of the Top 25 ‘Female Techpreneurs’. After six years as a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group she went on to become CEO of OZON.ru, Russia’s largest e-commerce site, and executive VP of operations of the Priceline Group, the largest online and travel agency in the world which includes brands like OpenTable, Kayak, and Booking.com.
Most recently Gavet was Chief Operating Officer at real estate platform Compass, valued at over $6bn. She has spoken regularly at the leading technology industry events and her writing has appeared in Wired, the Harvard Business Review, the World Economic Forum, Fast Company and Fortune magazine. Her first book, Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech’s Empathy Problem and How to Fix It published by Wiley, is now available.

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March 24 As any entrepreneur will tell you, building a company from scratch is a lonely and exhausting endeavor. That’s why… https://t.co/6fotBnJ6S9 Re-Tweet
March 15 I had the opportunity to speak frankly with @TechCrunch about our experience last weekend, in the immediate afterma… https://t.co/hSUSzhPx34 Re-Tweet
March 12 Lindsey is a Techstars 2019 company. This is her SVB story. The thing so many people miss is that the SVB story isn… https://t.co/h1uaFZUjI7 Re-Tweet
March 12 The past 72 hrs have been a rollercoaster for entrepreneurs in the Techstars network & beyond. As someone who has b… https://t.co/icozFec58d Re-Tweet
March 2 Raising capital can be stressful, but the more insights you have about fundraising, the better positioned you’ll be… https://t.co/ESArv52RxO Re-Tweet
February 16 A milestone moment for @Techstars as the first 12 startups (10 Nigerian, 2 Kenyan, with 50% female CEOs) in our ARM… https://t.co/jdeRQsLRPh Re-Tweet
February 8 I'm honored to speak about investing in the current market at @OurCrowd Global Investor Summit in Israel next week… https://t.co/jfsF0xS2uY Re-Tweet
February 2 Flattered to be included in @mastersofscale, Six leadership traps and how to avoid them. In Trap 4, I share, “the… https://t.co/qMGTC5Ugoh Re-Tweet
January 25 ICYMI: @FortuneMagazine has the inside track on @Techstars investor summit with @jpmorgan, where 59 of our portcos… https://t.co/fKZ4htnHnl Re-Tweet

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