The continuing goal of “The Innovation Conversation” is to explore some facet of the fast-changing, technology-driven retail landscape and how it affects businesses and consumers. It is, we think, fertile territory … and one that Tom Furphy – a former Amazon executive who led the team that developed Amazon Fresh, and currently CEO and Managing Director of Consumer Equity Partners (CEP), a venture capital and venture development firm in Seattle, WA, that works with many top retailers and manufacturers – is uniquely positioned to address.
Today, inspired by the corporate soap opera that recently seemed to engulf Open AI, CEO Sam Altman, and the company’s board, Tom and KC talk about the challenges that face companies when founders go from starting the company to building the company and then to running a larger and more established company. Tom uses his own experience – he has started four companies and sold three, as well as served on numerous boards of startups – to frame the priorities that both sides of the equation must face. And Tom and KC talk about the opportunities for retailers that have been spotlighted by some of the goings-on at Open AI.
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