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Ep. 176 – Persona COO, Christie Kim

Aug 28, 2021

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Our guest today is Christie Kim, COO of Persona, the identity infrastructure company backed by Index Ventures and Coatue that offers businesses the building blocks to create personalized identity verification experiences for any use case. 

In her role, Christie oversees Persona’s business and operations functions, including sales, marketing, customer success, and operations. She is leading the team toward the company’s mission to be the identity layer of the internet for customers including Square, Sonder, Brex, Udemy, Gusto, BlockFi, Coursera, and AngelList. Previously, Christie was at LinkedIn where she was the head of business development for LinkedIn Learning Solutions.

In This Conversation We Discuss:

  • What Christie had to unlearn that was more corporate in order to learn how to be more entrepreneurial with a startup 
  • How Persona functions and verifies online identities 
  • The importance of adding fun to company culture boosting morale within the team
  • What were some of the tough times in Persona that Christie and her team got through 

Resources:

Connect with Christie Kim: LinkedIn 

Persona – https://withpersona.com

 

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Written By Cameron Herold

Written By Cameron Herold

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