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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

It was April 2014, and the company was raising its Series B. and in 2014, it had the lowest digital penetration of any category. Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon. Investing in Instacart was perhaps the hardest decision I had to make as a venture capitalist.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. Katie Carty Tierney is an Area Vice President for the Americas at BMC Software. Heck, stand at the head of it.

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