Jenny Lawton
EVP at Bolster. Former CEO of Makerbot, COO of LittleBits, and President and COO at Techstars. Operator across hardware, consumer, and venture.
Between Two COOs episodes featuring Jenny Lawton
About Jenny Lawton
Jenny Lawton has run businesses across some of the most distinctive companies in tech. She was CEO of Makerbot during its push to democratize 3D printing, which exited for $400 million. She was COO of LittleBits, the learning division behind BB8. And she ran operations at Techstars, one of the most prolific seed-stage accelerators in the world.
Today she is EVP at Bolster, the on-demand executive talent marketplace founded by Matt Blumberg, where she helps CEOs scale themselves and their businesses. The thread across her career is a preference for ambiguous situations she can put structure around: pattern matching, understanding the destination, and finding the efficient path to get there.
On Between Two COOs, Jenny walked through the Makerbot exit, the operational realities of running Techstars at scale, and what she has learned about helping founders grow into operators capable of running larger companies.
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