Stacy Brown-Philpot: Up to the Task

Join us in The BreakLine Arena for an action-packed conversation with tech titan and trailblazer, Stacy Brown-Philpot. Stacy is the former CEO of TaskRabbit the leading task management network connecting skilled Taskers with clients to handle everyday services in the home. In 2017, Stacy led the successful acquisition of TaskRabbit by the IKEA Group. Ranked by Business Insider as one of the 46 Most Important Blacks in Technology, Stacy is a frequent speaker on diversity, equity and inclusion. Notably, she founded the Black Googler Network, a seminal component of diversity initiatives at Google and the larger technology industry. She was named a 2016 Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute and Fortune's 2015 40 Under 40.Originally from Detroit where she developed a deep and abiding love for all things Motown, Stacy now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two daughters. She holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.If you like what you've heard, please subscribe, follow, and rate our show! To learn more about BreakLine Education, check us out at breakline.org.