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Jen Grant

CEO at Appify (formerly Turbo Systems)

Jen joined Appify as CEO in Feb 2020. Prior to that she lead three successful billion dollar IPOs as CMO.

The SaaS Report’s Top Women Leaders in SaaS of 2018

Appify builds integrated, sophisticated, enterprise grade business apps crazy fast. They have raised $12 million to date and have a $1 million ARR.

Jen’s audience is engaged, numbers greater than 6,000, and she is happy to share your episode with her fans!

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Jen Grant

CEO at Appify (formerly Turbo Systems)

Jen joined Appify as CEO in Feb 2020. Prior to that she lead three successful billion dollar IPOs as CMO.

#3 – The SaaS Report’s Top Women Leaders in SaaS of 2019

Appify is the only platform that makes it easy for anyone to build enterprise-grade business apps crazy fast on top of their existing systems. They have raised $12 million to date and have a $1 million ARR.

Jen’s audience is engaged, numbers greater than 6,000, and she is happy to share your episode with her fans!

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BOOK NOW FOR your podcast

Jen Grant

CEO at Appify (formerly Turbo Systems)

Jen joined Appify as CEO in Feb 2020. Prior to that she lead three successful billion dollar IPOs as CMO.

#3 – The SaaS Report’s Top Women Leaders in SaaS of 2019

Appify is the only platform that makes it easy for anyone to build enterprise-grade business apps crazy fast on top of their existing systems. They have raised $12 million to date and have a $1 million ARR.

Jen’s audience is engaged, numbers greater than 6,000, and she is happy to share your episode with her fans!

read more

What a bizarre time to jump from a safe job at Google to a Series A start-up. 

It’s not like I haven’t experienced hurdles in my career, I am a woman executive after all. I graduated Business School in 2001, as the dot-com busted, 9/11 frightened everyone, and I drove back to the Bay Area knowing there were no jobs. Then in 2008, I made my big leap to Box, leaving Google right in the middle of a recession as Lehman Brothers shut down and the markets were in a tailspin. 

So now, 30 days into my new role as CEO of Turbo Systems, we are all home, sheltering-in-place, and trying to slow the spread of this virus. 

I am reminded of the opening words of the first Box video, “Business today is different…” more >>>

Yesterday, I announced to the Turbo team in the US that we are taking Juneteenth off to celebrate the end of slavery and spend some time reflecting on where we are today in America. It was a small thing, but the Black employees on my team told me they really appreciated it. On the one hand, I guess I did the right thing; on the other hand, it felt too little to deserve anyone’s thanks. There needs to be more.

For a start-up company, it can seem impossible to respond to the horrible and upsetting happenings of the last few weeks. There is no question that we at Turbo are deeply supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement. But that feels like a hollow pledge without actual donations to back it up. more >>>

Timeline

Feb 2020 – Present

CEO – Appify
(Turbo Systems)

turbo systems logo

Turbo Systems makes it easy for anyone to build powerful business apps. Dream it, build it, deploy it – all in days. 
 
Feb 2020 – Present

May 2015 – Feb 2020

CMO – Looker

Great companies like Cigna, Turner, Autodesk, Yahoo!, and Sony have transformed into data-driven cultures with Looker as the catalyst.

May 2015 – Feb 2020

Jan 2014 – Nov 2014

CMO – Elastic

Rebranded the company including changing the name to Elastic and hired the marketing team that took them to the IPO.

Jan 2014 – Nov 2014

Nov 2008 – Oct 2013

Senior Vice President, Marketing – Box

As the first executive marketing hire, I took Box from being an unknown ‘consumer back-up tool’ called Box.net to the industry-leading enterprise content and collaboration software used by 95% of the Fortune 500 including giants such as P&G, Schneider Electric, MTV, LinkedIn, Stanford University and more.

Nov 2008 – Oct 2013

1999 – 2001

📚 The Wharton School

MBA – Entrepreneurial Marketing 

1999 – 2001

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