Joe Phoenix

Givinga, inc. CEO

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Career Highlights

• 25-year career at Putnam Investments

• Starting Givinga 8 years ago and growing the company through a very turbulent period

• Moving quickly through the Givinga failures to define the company's product and uncover our perfect market

Failures

• Not growing Putnam's non-US businesses more quickly

Hobbies

Golf, Skiing, Hiking, Gardening, Sailing (small 16-foot Hobbies!), Music/ literature

Talk to me about

• Giving vehicles & Donor Advised Funds

• Investment Capabilities

• Financial markets/ products

• Building and managing diverse decentralized teams

• Becoming an entrepreneur after 50

I want to talk to you about

• Post-seed financing structures & other capital (loans, venture debt, etc,..)

• Lessons attendees have learned as they've grown businesses and seen success

• Startup perspective outside of fintech

• Business structure and location

• Virtual versus in-office employee structures

• Political and economic forecasts over the next 18-24 months

• Boston as a world-class tech and startup community