Founders Club

Daphne is an entrepreneur, Co-founder & CEO of Chaoly, nonetheless Data-analytics & growth hacker in China.  Tech specialist in the eCommerce industry with a strong desire to formulate successful strategies for companies to grow in the Chinese eCommerce space. Having both built an eCommerce company as well as a tech company in China, she knows what it takes to succeed in this fast-paced economy.

Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.  After building products for more than a decade, and throughout that time searching for a better, and faster way for building successful products.  Ash Maurya joined and contributed significantly to the diffusion of the Lean Startup movement along with Eric Ries and Steve Blank. 

His books Running Lean, Scaling Lean, had a huge impact on me alongside the Lean Canvas that is an amazing tool widely used by founders and early-stage startups around the globe.  

Among many lessons, he has learned as a founder and entrepreneur here are the 3 most important:

 - Listening to customers is key, but you have to know-how.

 - Life is too short to build something nobody wants.

 - Love the Problem, Not Your Solution.

Anna McAfee is the founder of the first LinkedInLocal offline event. It all began with a single post in 2017, fast forward 2 years, at its height #LinkedInLocal touched the lives of over 300,000 humans, in 650+ cities, in 92 countries. It ignited her excitement for online to offline, a deep passion for community, for supporting more sustainable mental health practices, and to bring a better sense of belonging to the world. 

In this video interview, I had the chance to talk with Chris J Reed.  International best selling author on the subjects of LinkedIn, Personal Branding, and Social Selling. Chris is infamously known as "The Only CEO With A Mohawk", recognized globally by his notorious pink mohawk!   Chris is also the No.1 Most Recommended Global LinkedIn Marketing Expert with 4 Best Selling Books about LinkedIn, CEO and Founder of the No.1 Most Recommended Global LinkedIn Marketing Firm, Black Marketing with 1,600 LinkedIn Recommendations and leads the No.1 Most Recommended Global LinkedIn Masterclass.  In this episode you will learn about:   LinkedIn Leadership Personal Branding  LinkedIn Marketing  Social Selling  Content Marketing

Herbert Gerzer runs a highly creative Digital Marketing Agency for language schools.  He has over 12 years of experience in the industry, from teaching to sales, to marketing. Now he helps language schools attract new students and sell more courses through Facebook and Instagram Ads.

Michael J. Timms is Founder and Principal Consultant for EdTech Evaluation, a consultancy focused on helping to enhance the effectiveness of educational technology products and assist education systems in adopting new learning technologies. Dr. Timms was formerly Director of Research Development and Quality Assurance at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) where is responsible for supporting the educational research conducted across all research divisions. His role included identifying and developing innovative approaches to educational research and providing the infrastructure to support current and future work. Before that, he was Director of the Assessment and Psychometric Research Division at ACER for six years where he led a division of around 70 staff. Dr. Timms’ particular research interest is in the application of educational measurement in intelligent learning systems. He has led many projects focused on the use of innovative computer-based assessments to tap into student knowledge and abilities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

David Allison has spent his career helping organizations motivate, influence and engage audiences.

He is the founder of The Valuegraphics Database, the world's first custom database that can predict and influence behavior. The database contains insights from close to a half-million surveys, conducted in 152 languages, about 420 metrics: our values, wants, needs and expectations. It is globally representative, and accurate +/- 3.5% with a 95% level of confidence.

David's company uses the database to provide clients with data-driven personas that pinpoint precisely which values will most powerfully trigger behavior for anything on earth.

His bestselling book, WE ARE ALL THE SAME AGE NOW: THE END OF DEMOGRAPHIC STEREOTYPES was listed by INC Magazine as one of the top ten leadership books of the year, and Kirkus Reviews called it a "genuinely authentic contribution to the field of marketing literature."

David speaks globally about how to predict and influence behavior and provides custom data for every audience he addresses. He is represented by the National Speakers Bureau and the Global Speakers Agency.

Yoann is a French engineer by training and a human developer by passion. Having been in Shanghai for almost 6 years, he climbed the ladder from sales engineer to sales director, multiplying his company sales turnover 6 times and leading a team of 15 people from 5 different nationalities. He is starting his own business now to help companies to scale up and people to sell more with integrity. His sales experience with SMEs and various clients such as JOHNSON & JONHSON, MARELLI or BAOSTEEL helped him to identify the needs of different organizations as well as individuals for sales training, coaching and consulting. Passionate about public speaking and personal development, he runs workshops to help individuals learn through experiential trainings, mentor start-ups through Chinaccelerator and give lectures to different MBAs and business schools in Shanghai.

Josh is a TEDx speaker. Author of "7 Systems of Influence" he has written 300+ articles in Time, Inc., Fortune, Forbes, FastCo, Mashable. He leveraged that attention to generate millions for his marketing agency MWI (mwi.com). And then turned his writing skills to LinkedIn where he created posts that led to millions of views and generated leads and sales. He became fascinated with the art and science of personal influence which led to creating The 7 Systems of Influence, a framework he uses to help executives and entrepreneurs do get their names in top-tier business publications as well and build their personal brands on LinkedIn.

He started his second company, Influencer Inc, which helps executives and entrepreneurs grow their businesses through PR and LinkedIn. He is also a husband, father, skater, Dinosaur Jr. fan, political news junkie, ultra trail runner, triathlete, author of Chief Marketing Officers at Work.

Ben is the host of the podcast "Rolling Forward", which explores the link between mental health and sport, where he dives into the habits of high performers. He is also marketing lead, and a community leader at MOTIVATE Shanghai, a personal development group focused on providing entrepreneurs with the skills they need to achieve their goals. In his free time, Ben is a keen Jiu-jitsu player.