From the desk of
Meredith Powell
Midnight Marauder. Tech Geek. 4x Founder.
Public Speaker. Aural Fixation. Tea, Chocolate & AI ftw.
Meredith spent the first 12 years of her career in the fast-paced fashion industry travelling the globe unearthing emerging consumer products and platforms, creating B2B go to market strategies & executing on multi-million dollar launches into new markets.
Born out of her apartment, Meredith's brand & business sister agencies grew to serve retailers such as Amazon, Nordstrom,
Urban Outfitters, Isetan and H&M across six NA offices as well as to be featured by the likes of Vice, Glamour, Elle, and The NY Times.
In 2012, Meredith was tapped by the past Publisher of Vogue to launch Shopthefloor.com, the world's largest B2B wholesale apparel marketplace (acquired by UBM).
Today, Meredith stays busy as a national award-winning speaker, board member, and venture partner with Voyager Capital, as well as founder of a Next Gen startup incubator and youth fellowship. Over 50 companies graduated the incubator's flagship program to date, raising over $20m in early stage funding.
Stuff We Dig
We're curious by nature. Maybe you are, too?
Here are some of our favorite things.
Listen
We're obsessed with all things Gimlet Media.
Startup, Mogul, Reply All, The Pitch, The Nod, and Mystery Show (Starlee = revelation) top the list. Startup Season 1 of Startup, in particular, is impeccable. Brilliant, funny, dead-on.
Runners-up?
On Being, 33 Voices, Note to Self, WTF w Marc Maron, a16z, Stop Podcasting Yourself, The Tim Ferriss Show, This American Life, Comedy Bang-Bang, Invisibilia, Dear Sugars, Radiolab, & You Made it Weird w Pete Holmes.
Read
We nerd out at second hand bookstores.
Recent paper you'll find on the bedside table?
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Daring Greatly
American Gods
Lincoln in the Bardo
Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar
Y: The Last Man
Start With Why
Nights at the Circus
Bloomberg Businessweek - hands-down the best weekly biz mag read around
Watch
Generally speaking... screen time is overrated. But some things are just so worth it.
TED talks by Dr. Brene Brown & Sir Ken Robinson
House of Cards
The Conversation w Amanda de Cadenet
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
All things Vice
Silicon Valley
Atlanta
Planet Earth
Insecure
Dance
Jack Garratt + here + with James Bay
Michael Kiwanuka
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto no.2 op.18
Everything Lauryn Hill, Common, Angie Stone, Jill Scott & Alicia Keys
Get your Ramble On
Leon Bridges & Andra Day
Tribe Called Quest. RIP Phife.
