Stacey Ferreira

Arizona Foothills Magazine writes that the idea for MySocialCloud came after her brother, Scott Ferreira, had his computer crash during his first year of college, losing his documents, among them a spreadsheet of usernames and passwords; TechCrunchTechCrunchTechCrunch is an American technology news outlet founded in 2005 by Michael Arrington and Keith Teare and headquartered in San Francisco; it mainly covers technology companies, startups, and venture capital, and hosts events such as TechCrunch Disrupt. Its ownership passed successively through AOL, Verizon, and Yahoo, and in 2025 Regent announced its acquisition.Open the full entry writes that it was prompted by a hard drive crash and that he had kept his 500 usernames and passwords for various services in an Excel spreadsheet. Arizona Foothills Magazine writes that the site was officially founded in May 2011 and officially started at the University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California (USC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, planned by a group led by Judge Robert Maclay Widney and opened to students in 1880.Open the full entry; TechCrunch writes that the team started to build the service in May 2011.⁠[1][2]

She co-founded the company with her brother; Arizona Foothills Magazine writes that she was 18 and he was 20 at the time. A third co-founder, Shiv Prakash, was Scott Ferreira’s friend from the University of Southern California; Lioness Magazine writes that after about a month of working on the site the siblings brought in Prakash, who held a master’s degree in computer science with a specialty in security, as another co-founder, and Under30CEO writes that he was then attending the University of Southern California.⁠[1][2][3][4]

StartupCafe.ro writes that when she was 18 and her brother 20 the two left their parents’ home in a small town in ArizonaArizonaArizona is a state in the southwestern United States; its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1912, as the 48th state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 7,151,502.Open the full entry for Los Angeles with only the $1,500 they had saved from building websites for companies, and could afford to live only in a disreputable neighborhood; Under30CEO writes that the siblings moved to Los Angeles to work closely with Prakash. She recalled her father’s advice that if they wanted to learn to run a business, the first lesson was responsibility, so they had better move out and become financially independent; she also said that there were days when they ate only noodles and Doritos and she could not afford to eat enough, and that she and her brother would order a single fast-food meal and share it. In an interview published on HuffPost she said that in the summer of 2011 she, Scott Ferreira and Shiv Prakash were working in Los Angeles on the first version of MySocialCloud.⁠[5][4][6]

Under30CEO writes that MySocialCloud offered a free service aimed mainly at college students, who manage many passwords; she credited its growth to college campuses and word of mouth.⁠[4]

In the same HuffPost interview she recalled that in June 2011 she saw a tweet from Richard BransonRichard BransonRichard Branson is a British entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Group. Beginning with a youth magazine and mail-order records, he expanded into aviation, leisure, telecommunications, finance and commercial spaceflight. He also founded Virgin Unite and is known for ballooning expeditions and his 2021 suborbital flight.Open the full entry inviting people to meet him in Miami for cocktails in exchange for a $2,000 charity donation; when she emailed, someone on Branson’s staff replied that night that she and her brother could meet him if they donated $4,000 and flew to Miami within 48 hours. In Lioness Magazine she also described the tweet, said she was a “broke college kid” at the time, and said that she borrowed the money, flew to Miami and met Branson.⁠[6][3]

Arizona Foothills Magazine writes that the siblings borrowed $4,000 from their parents, promising to repay it by the end of the summer, and flew to Miami to pitch Branson; Under30CEO writes that each scraped together $2,000. TechCrunch writes that Branson’s tweet said he wanted to meet 18 entrepreneurs in Miami while he was there celebrating the 25th anniversary of Virgin AtlanticVirgin AtlanticVirgin Atlantic is a British airline founded by Richard Branson in 1984, providing long-haul passenger and cargo services. It operates a transatlantic joint venture with Delta Air Lines and Air France-KLM, joined SkyTeam in 2023 and appointed Josh Bayliss chair in 2026.Open the full entry, and that instead of the planned 15 minutes the siblings talked with him for nearly an hour.⁠[1][4][2]

She recalled that at the meeting she and her brother asked Branson for his email address, which he wrote down for them on a piece of paper.⁠[5]

Macmillan Publishers’ author page states that Jared Kleinert came up with the idea for 2 Billion Under 20 at the 2012 Under 20 Summit in New York City, where he met her, and that the two later co-wrote the book of that name. In the HuffPost interview she said that 2 Billion Under 20 was an idea her co-creator, Jared Kleinert, had after the two attended the Thiel FellowshipThiel FellowshipThe Thiel Fellowship is a two-year grant program started by investor Peter Thiel and run by the Thiel Foundation that funds young people who skip or stop out of college to build new things instead. The program has been criticized by figures in education for encouraging young people to leave college.Open the full entry Summit in New York City the previous year; she said that in April they had started to build a community of young adults aged 20 and under and were working on a 2 Billion Under 20 book telling some of their stories.⁠[7][6]

In the HuffPost interview she said that after returning from Miami they sent Branson their prototype, and that a couple of weeks later Jerry Murdock, an investor Branson knew, flew to Los Angeles to meet her, Scott Ferreira and Shiv Prakash and ask them questions about MySocialCloud; that evening he took them to dinner and they shook hands on an investment of about $1 million from Murdock and Branson. TechCrunch writes that Branson introduced them to Murdock and that both had invested within a month; TechCrunch’s article of March 16, 2012 states that Branson and the Flipboard investor Jerry Murdock had put “just shy of a million” into MySocialCloud, naming Scott Ferreira as founder and chief executive and her as a co-founder.⁠[6][2]

Accounts of the amount and the investors differ. Under30CEO writes that two months after the meeting the company received approximately $1 million in seed funding from Branson, Jerry Murdock of Insight Venture PartnersInsight PartnersInsight Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in New York in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock, investing in software and technology companies from early through late stages. As of December 31, 2025, its website reported over $90 billion in regulatory assets under management and investments in more than 900 companies.Open the full entry and the entrepreneur Alex Welch; Built In NYC writes that the $1 million round came from Branson, the early Flipboard investor Jerry Murdock and the Photobucket founder Alex Welch; Arizona Foothills Magazine writes that Murdock and Branson invested close to $1 million. StartupCafe.ro writes that in 2012 the company obtained $1.2 million in venture funding from three experienced investors, Branson among them, and quotes Murdock as saying that the three of them, Branson, Alex Welch and he, wanted to invest $1.2 million; Lioness Magazine writes that Branson and two of his buddies invested a few weeks after the meeting, for a total of $1.2 million; CFI.co writes that Branson and a business partner put in almost a million dollars.⁠[4][8][1][5][3][9]

TechCrunch wrote in March 2012 that MySocialCloud was still in private beta and had until then been open only to users at a handful of colleges in CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia is a U.S. state on the Pacific coast; its capital is Sacramento and its largest city is Los Angeles. California was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850, as the 31st state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 39,538,223, the largest of any state.Open the full entry. It connected to Facebook and Twitter to surface content shared by friends; users could bookmark and share items and store usernames and passwords, both on the site and through a “Cloud It” bookmarklet; passwords were stored encrypted and could be decrypted only by the user, and communication with the backend used 256-bit SSL. The reviewer found that the interface needed polish and that the stream did not update automatically in testing; the competitors named were News.me, Zite and Flipboard.⁠[2]

In CFI.co’s 2019 profile she said: “A tweet led to me meeting Richard Branson, and then having him invest in our first company”; she added that social media had lowered the barriers to meeting well-known people, so that “anyone can get access to pretty much anyone in the world.”⁠[9]

Arizona Foothills Magazine writes that MySocialCloud offered secure password storage, one-click logins, multiple social media streams on one page, information memory and easy content sharing; with the investment the company hired and grew to a team of ten, and the Explore stream launched in June 2012 brought a large increase in users subscribing to lists, sharing and commenting, which she called the team’s favorite moment. The article gives her age as 19 and the team’s plans for the next year as refining the website, gaining users and launching a mobile app.⁠[1]

In the same article she said: “The Internet has given us a great way to spread knowledge and information.” The article also writes that both siblings decided to leave their colleges to focus on the company.⁠[1]

In 2013 she sold her first company, MySocialCloud, to Reputation.com for an undisclosed sum; WorkJam’s later announcement describes MySocialCloud as a password storage and single sign-on (SSO) technology, and the Los Angeles Business Journal calls it a single sign-on company. Lioness Magazine writes that she was 20 at the time of the sale; she said that the company had spent about 50 percent of its time fighting off people trying to access user data, and that the sale was meant to give the product a great home while keeping users’ data and privacy safe. StartupCafe.ro writes that in 2013 she and her brother sold their stakes to the larger company, and she said she would not reveal the amount; CFI.co writes that the deal made the siblings millionaires.⁠[10][11][3][12][5][9]

After the sale she worked at Reputation.com as a product marketing manager. She later recalled that at 20 she found herself working full-time in an office for someone else’s dream, and so decided to leave Reputation.com.⁠[8][13][5]

On September 11, 2013 Under30CEO published an interview with her, giving her age as 20. She said in it: “It stands out when people are young and doing amazing things”; in her view young founders have less accumulated experience, are less jaded and are “hungry to try anything and everything.” She advised founders to keep customer service strong and to pursue opportunities rather than avoid them; the interview also says that she was passionate about the music industry and hoped to start a company in that field.⁠[4]

Her personal website gives her as co-founder and chief executive of Forge from 2015 to 2020. Built In NYC writes that the idea came while she was writing her book and noticed that young people want flexibility from work; she said: “I realized that everyone wants flexibility.” A Los Angeles Business Journal profile writes that she had become interested in the future of work and asked why workers in restaurants and hotels could not have the flexibility that UberUberUber is a technology company headquartered in San Francisco, United States, whose legal name is Uber Technologies, Inc. Co-founded by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick, it uses digital platforms to connect riders with drivers, delivery consumers with merchants, and shippers with carriers, with main businesses in Mobility, Delivery, and Freight. Dara Khosrowshahi has been chief executive officer since 2017.Open the full entry drivers have. CFI.co writes that she developed the platform during the Thiel Fellowship.⁠[13][8][12][9]

Reports from 2016 to 2019 (Built In NYC, YPulse, Forbes JAPAN, CFI.co) spell the company’s name Forrge; StartupCafe.ro, Lioness Magazine and WorkJam’s announcement from 2017 onward spell it Forge, and the Los Angeles Business Journal profile gives its name as Forge Technologies Inc.⁠[8][14][15][9][5][3][11][12]

On June 5, 2015 the Thiel Foundation announced its 2015 class of Thiel Fellows, 20 people chosen from a record 2,800 applications; each received $100,000 and mentorship from the foundation’s network of founders, investors and scientists, provided they skipped or stopped out of college during the two years of the program. She was among them: the announcement gives her age at application as 22 and her hometown as Scottsdale, Arizona, lists her project type as technology and entrepreneurship, and describes her as co-author of 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers & Changing the World and chief executive of AdMoar, an online marketplace that matches brands with YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry influencers to facilitate product placement deals.⁠[10]

Meeting of the Minds describes her as one of twenty Thiel Fellows selected for 2015; StartupCafe.ro writes that she received a grant in Peter ThielPeter ThielPeter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and investor, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, and the first outside investor in Facebook. He is a partner at the venture capital firm Founders Fund and founded the Thiel Fellowship, which funds young people to leave college and build new things; his public skepticism of higher education, his support for Trump in 2016, and his funding of litigation against Gawker Media have drawn controversy.Open the full entry’s fellowship program, calls Peter Thiel the first investor in Facebook and PayPalPayPalPayPal Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: PYPL) is an American digital payments company that operates payment brands including PayPal, Venmo, Braintree, and Xoom, providing online and in-store payments, money transfers, and consumer credit to consumers and merchants worldwide.Open the full entry, and writes that each year Peter Thiel offers $100,000 each to 20 young people who drop out of college to pursue an innovative startup idea; CFI.co writes that she joined the Thiel Fellowship in 2015 and describes the program as an alternative to college.⁠[16][5][9]

On July 28, 2015 St. Martin’s Press published 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World, which she wrote with Jared Kleinert (hardcover ISBN 9781250067616). The publisher’s description says that the two young entrepreneurs brought together 75 stories of young people, among them a YouTuber who started her channel at sixteen, an Olympic gymnast and a teenage cancer-detection researcher; the Open Road Media ebook page names Paige McKenzie, Sam Mikulak, Jack Andraka, Tallia Storm and Dau Jok, and its contributor line also lists Blake Masters. The publisher presents the work as a book, an online community and a movement inspired by the roughly 2 billion people in the world at or under the age of twenty.⁠[17][18]

Lioness Magazine writes that the book is about the future of work and what her generation wants from it, including work-life balance and flexibility; the Los Angeles Business Journal writes that she received a book deal with St. Martin’s Press. StartupCafe.ro and Lioness Magazine call it a bestseller, StartupCafe.ro specifying an AmazonAmazonAmazon is a publicly traded U.S. technology and retail company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, with its principal corporate offices in Seattle. Its businesses span e-commerce, logistics and fulfillment, digital advertising, membership and entertainment services, consumer electronics, and Amazon Web Services cloud computing.Open the full entry bestseller; her co-author Jared Kleinert writes on Meeting of the Minds that the book was named the #1 Entrepreneurship Book of 2015 by the Axiom Business Book Awards.⁠[3][12][5][16]

On January 8, 2016 Forbes JAPAN published an article on ForbesForbesForbes is an American business media brand that began with Forbes magazine, founded by B.C. Forbes in 1917. It is known for rankings such as the Forbes 400, the World’s Billionaires list and 30 Under 30, and operates Forbes.com, ForbesLive events and licensed editions in 81 countries. Since 2014 a majority stake has been held by the Hong Kong investment group Integrated Whale Media; a 2021 plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange through a special purpose acquisition company was terminated in 2022. It is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.Open the full entry’s newly announced 2016 30 Under 30 list for retail and e-commerce, headlined as 17 women leaders under 30 revolutionizing retail; among the honorees it excerpts is she, given as 23 and chief executive of the job-matching site Forrge. WorkJam’s announcement, the Human Capital Institute’s speaker page, Meeting of the Minds and her personal website also state that she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30. On January 11 YPulse, in the “On Demand” section of an article on how millennials sell to millennials, gave her as 23 and head of Forrge, which it called a work scheduling tool matching on-demand jobs with workers.⁠[15][11][19][16][13][14]

On January 28, 2016 Built In NYC wrote that Forrge provided on-demand staffing for the services and distribution industries, mainly retail and quick-service restaurants: workers filled out a common application, similar to a college application, and completed training through video tutorials to be pre-approved for multiple jobs at multiple companies based on their skills, then each day browsed job openings, hours and hourly pay and chose the job and hours they wanted to work that day; Forrge would take a percentage of every hour worked and planned an Uber-like rating system letting employers verify a worker’s conduct and workers rate store managers and locations. It was partnering with brands such as Dunkin’ Donuts, Little Caesars and Red Robin; the company had just closed a $1.5 million seed round, which it planned to use to launch a new app and to beta-test with several national and international quick-service restaurant concepts in the second quarter, and had been named one of Built In’s 50 startups to watch. The article writes that Forrge planned to become a viable option for young people who want to pursue entrepreneurial projects and need flexible schedules.⁠[8]

In May 2017, at 24, she spoke to students and professors at the Academy of Economic Studies (ASE) in Bucharest, Romania, the subject of a StartupCafe.ro article of May 11. She said: “Nu cred ca trebuie neaparat sa ai facultate ca sa reusesti” (“I don’t think you necessarily need a degree to succeed”), describing university as good for exploring different fields and taking lessons from people with authority, and running a business as carrying far more responsibility than studying; she also said that low employee engagement often comes from people not being truly passionate about what they do. The lessons the article draws from her talk also include not being afraid to take risks.⁠[5]

The article describes Forge as an online service through which employers find workers: an employer posts an available job in a geographic area for a set time window, and workers can apply and take the shift, with flexibility of time and place, for occasional jobs; she said that she wanted to expand first across the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States is a federal country in North America made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia as the seat of government, and territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam; its capital is Washington, D.C. The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted a resident population of 331,449,281, and the 435 seats of the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of the census.Open the full entry and later to other places, such as Romania.⁠[5]

On April 26, 2018 Lioness Magazine gave her as 25 and co-founder and chief executive of Forge, an enterprise workforce management software company: Forge let hourly employees choose their own shifts while remaining W-2 employees of each employer, viewing and booking open shifts in the Forge app, which prevented double-booking across jobs, and clocking in and out by phone; its customers were mainly in hospitality, the examples given being Residence Inn and SpringHill Suites by Marriott InternationalMarriott InternationalMarriott International, Inc. is an American lodging company that franchises, operates and licenses hotel, residential, timeshare and other properties; at year-end 2025 its system had 9,805 properties in 145 countries and territories.Open the full entry. She said that employers saw higher employee satisfaction and lower turnover, and that she had set “aggressive goals” for 2018–2019.⁠[3]

On January 11, 2019 CFI.co wrote that Forrge had not yet spent a year out in the open and had already attracted a line-up of venture capitalists, that she was its chief executive, and that she had brought Scott Ferreira into the development team. The article gives her age as 23.⁠[9]

A Los Angeles Business Journal profile written when she was 27 (undated) states that Forge Technologies Inc., based in Playa Vista, Los Angeles, connected employers in industries such as hospitality and retail with workers looking for part-time shifts, had 12 employees and had raised at least $4 million in venture capital. She said: “I raised $4 million in venture capital and then funded it personally,” adding that she took no salary, went in with four others, raised funds for about six months, shopped the company around and then raised some capital to build a prototype. She said the advantage of starting young is that “You stand out because you are so young,” while lacking “20 to 25 years of a network” makes hiring harder; in her view investors do not outright say they will not invest because of age, but everyone has been in a pitch meeting where they hear “I like your idea, but come back later when…”, and she did not know whether that could be tied directly to age or to being a woman in the industry. She said the business “works anywhere,” but that many people in Los Angeles work several gigs or pursue side passions.⁠[12]

The profile also names her mentors as Forrest Hobbs, whom it gives as chief revenue officer of “Relflektive Inc.”; Betsy Peck, a former chief operating officer at Jones Lang LaSalle, whom she described as great at sales strategy, business development and people management and emailed with questions once or twice a week; and Dan Tyre, director of HubSpot, whom she called a friend and personal coach. One full-time staff member handled content, blog posts and social media, which she said drove leads and in turn sales. Of running the company she said: “Sometime it’s somewhat lonely; you can’t talk to the investors or the people on your team.”⁠[12]

WorkJam’s announcement states that Forge and WorkJam were both named Gartner Cool Vendors in 2019, Forge in the retail category.⁠[11]

On February 19, 2020 the digital workplace provider WorkJam announced from Montreal that it was acquiring Forge, without disclosing terms; WorkJam called it its second acquisition of a digital workplace technology provider in the last 18 months, while Retail TouchPoints called it the second acquisition in 13 months, the first having been the employee communications software provider Peerio Technologies in January 2019. The announcement describes Forge as an on-demand staffing platform enabling multiple industries and a trusted flexible scheduling and talent-sharing platform, and states that the deal brought WorkJam more customers spanning retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare and restaurants; with the deal she, as Forge’s chief executive and co-founder, joined WorkJam as Director of Digital Workplace.⁠[11][20]

In the announcement she said: “We’re especially drawn to WorkJam’s customer-centric culture and passion for improving the lives of hourly employees,” adding that WorkJam was solving the same workforce challenges as Forge and that “joining forces was a natural fit.”⁠[11]

On September 9, 2020 Meeting of the Minds, run by Jared Kleinert, published an interview with her, introducing her as Director of Digital Workplace Strategy at WorkJam, helping operations, HR and IT leaders choose a workforce management platform; the conversation covered her move from Silicon Valley to Los Angeles, selling two startups and working for the companies that acquired them, the future of work and creative ways to learn. The Human Capital Institute’s speaker page likewise gives her as Director of Digital Workplace at WorkJam. Her personal website gives her title at WorkJam (2020–2021) as Global Director, Revenue Operations & Business Development.⁠[16][19][13]

Her personal website states in its “Enterprise” career list that from 2021 to 2023 she was Director, Store Experience & Design at GameStop.⁠[13]

Her personal website states in its “Enterprise” career list that she has been Director, US Sales Strategy at Ford (Ford Motor CompanyFord Motor CompanyFord Motor Company is a multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, founded by Henry Ford in Detroit in 1903, with two vehicle brands, Ford and Lincoln. With the Model T and the moving assembly line it ushered in the mass production of automobiles. Its 2025 revenue was about $187.3 billion, it has about 169,000 employees worldwide, and as of October 2026 Jim Farley is its president and chief executive officer.Open the full entry) since 2023, giving the years as “2023 - Present”; as of November 2026 the site still lists this as her current role and gives her location as Scottsdale, Arizona. On the site she calls herself a “published author, speaker, investor and 2x entrepreneur turned intrapreneur” who takes pride in helping companies of all sizes and stages grow and transform.⁠[13]

Arizona Foothills Magazine writes that she and her brother, Scott Ferreira, grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona, attending North Ranch Elementary School, Desert Shadows Middle School, Xavier College Preparatory and Brophy College Preparatory, and that a piano instructor and various teachers influenced them; she joked that the hot Arizona summers kept them indoors and built their computer skills. CFI.co writes that she was born in Scottsdale and had her first business inspiration while at high school in Phoenix, and that her father, Victor, was vice president of sales at IBMIBMIBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is an American information technology company, renamed in 1924 from the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R).Open the full entry, where her mother, Patricia, was an accountant.⁠[1][9]

She recalled that she was interested in technology early and played a lot of video games, and that in middle school and high school she and her brother began building their own technology and websites. She saved $54 to buy an HTML and CSS book at Barnes & Noble and worked through it over one weekend.⁠[3]

Scott Ferreira is her older brother: Arizona Foothills Magazine and StartupCafe.ro both give her age as 18 and his as 20 when the siblings started out, and Lioness Magazine calls him her older brother, while CFI.co calls him her younger brother. In the HuffPost interview she said that the two got along well growing up, that “Working with my brother has been fantastic!”, and that they already knew how to negotiate and compromise with each other; in Lioness Magazine she said that she owes him a lot.⁠[1][5][3][9][6]

She studied music business at New York UniversityNew York UniversityNew York University is a private university in New York City, founded in 1831, and one of the largest private universities in the United States.Open the full entry for one year. In StartupCafe.ro she said that she did one year at New York University while running MySocialCloud and then stopped to work full-time; the article writes that after a year of study she interrupted her studies to devote herself to her startup, later went back to university and left again after a year, and did not finish her degree. CFI.co writes that she left New York University and that Scott Ferreira dropped out of the University of Southern California.⁠[4][5][9]

Arizona Foothills Magazine notes that she signs her emails “Socially, Stacey Ferreira.” In the Los Angeles Business Journal profile she said that she loves to travel and loves the outdoors, such as hiking and running, that she does the steps in Culver City and hikes in Malibu, tries to run two miles a day, and, like many others in their 20s, likes hanging out with her friends; she was then living in Los Angeles.⁠[1][12]

Her personal website lists her as a startup investor from 2013 to the present, naming CanvaCanvaCanva is an online design platform company headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 2012 by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams and launched in 2013, it offers template-based drag-and-drop design tools for non-designers and later expanded into team collaboration, video, email, forms and generative AI features.Open the full entry, Babylist, Ellevest, Stealth AI, Offsite and more.⁠[13]

Meeting of the Minds writes that she has spoken at TEDxNYU, TEDxSan Diego, TEDxCluj in Romania, Singularity UniversitySingularity UniversitySingularity University is a technology and leadership education organization founded by Peter H. Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil. It offers short executive programs, organizational training and support for entrepreneurs, focusing on rapidly developing technologies and their social and business implications.Open the full entry events in Italy, the Czech Republic, Peru, Mexico and elsewhere, and TechCrunch Bangalore, on the future of work and the future of education, and that she has been a U.S. State Department speaker on entrepreneurship. WorkJam’s announcement lists her talks at TEDx, Singularity University and the Inc. Women’s Summit, and her upcoming appearances at ShopTalk 2020, Link2020: RILA Supply Chain, the Future Forum Caucus and ICSC’s Hawaii Idea Exchange.⁠[16][11]

An undated interview published on HuffPost and co-written by the New York City high school student Paloma Stafford states that she was on the cover of an October issue of Seventeen as that year’s “Pretty Amazing” winner, chosen from more than 23,000 entries from young women for her entrepreneurial prowess, and gives her age as 21. In it she summed up an entrepreneur as “Hard Working, Dedicated, Passionate,” said that people had thought she and her brother were “too young” and “didn’t know what we were doing,” and that the two used those doubts as fuel; her advice to young people was the 2 Billion Under 20 motto, “Start Somewhere. Start Now.”⁠[6]

Meeting of the Minds writes that she has appeared on the cover of Seventeen and has been featured in or contributed to Forbes, HuffPost, Business InsiderBusiness InsiderBusiness Insider is a digital business-news organization.Open the full entry, Women 2.0 and TechCrunch.⁠[16]

Personal website: https://staceyferreira.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[13]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyferreira (opens in a new window).⁠[13]

Reputation.com: Official website: https://reputation.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[21]

Thiel Fellowship: Official website: https://thielfellowship.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[22]

WorkJam: Official website: https://www.workjam.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[11]

GameStop: Official website: https://www.gamestop.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[23]

Ford Motor Company: Official website: https://corporate.ford.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[24]