Suneera Madhani: The $1B Playbook They Never Taught Women

About this episode

Suneera Madhani shares her journey of building a billion-dollar fintech business and empowering women entrepreneurs.

The founder behind Orlando's first unicorn, Stax, and now, Worth AI, join sus on a new episode of Skin in the Game. Suneera Madhani shares her scrappy story of turning a dream into a billion-dollar fintech business with her brother, exiting their first company together, and how they landed on the idea for their latest venture, an AI-based onboarding & underwriting workflow automation platform, where she currently serves as Chief Evangelist Officer. Suneera also shares about founding CEO School, a podcast and platform giving women the "Have-It-All" formula to scale like real CEOs, and offers some secrets as to why second-time founders move faster. They discuss how AI can enable leaner teams with outsize output and zero in on why Suneera remains deeply passionate about building in Florida.

People in this episode

Guest: Suneera Madhani

Topics covered

• fintech
• entrepreneurship
• AI
• women in business
• startup culture

Keywords

• fintech
• AI
• entrepreneurship
• women in business
• startup
• CEO School
• Orlando
• Suneera Madhani

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stax, Worth AI, CEO School

Places: Florida, Orlando

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