What a Series B Co-Founder looks for in their Leadership Team with Dee Murthy (Co-Founder, Ghost)

Level Up Newsletter & Community paid members were invited to join this live discussion with Dee Murthy (Co-Founder, Ghost) & Jason Yoong (Operating Partner, Level Up) on "What a Series B Co-Founder looks for in their Leadership Team"

Topics discussed:
​​1) What Dee looks for when hiring leaders & executives.
2) Dee's candid career advice.
3) Lessons from successfully starting and scaling multiple businesses.​

About Dee Murthy:
​​​Dee is the Co-Founder of Ghost, a private B2B platform for surplus inventory. Ghost raised a $20M Series A followed by a $30M Series B.

Dee is also the Co-Founder of Five Four Group (the holding company for fashion brands and services) and a Co-Host of Group Chat, a popular business, culture, and current events podcast with lots of hot takes.

​Dee's LinkedIn:   / dee-murthy-8a3557  
Dee's Twitter:   / deemurthy  
Group Chat Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

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About Ethan Evans:
-- In Ethan's 15+ years at Amazon, he led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.

-- 70+ patents.

-- Reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, and 1,000+ hires.

-- Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.

-- Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan's.

Ethan's LinkedIn:   / ethanevansvp  

Ethan's leadership development courses https://maven.com/ethan-evans (live online) and https://ethan-evans.mykajabi.com/ (on-demand)

About Jason Yoong:
Jason has run multiple $1B+ businesses across eCommerce, marketplaces, advertising, and media. He's led 40+ person organizations, owned department P&L, managed $400M+ marketing budgets for Fortune 100 entertainment (movies and broadcast TV) and consumer electronics clients, and served as a non-profit Advisory Board Member.

After leading and building at publicly traded companies Amazon, Dentsu Aegis, and Universal McCann (IPG), Jason joined the founding team of a venture-backed software startup and raised $8M seed.

Jason is now building Level Up: Your source for career growth solutions and community with Ethan Evans (retired Amazon Vice President) and serves as a mentor at First Round Capital and Techstars.

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