JW Player

Jillian Moulton is Chief People Officer at Fabric, a health tech company that has expanded rapidly through organic growth and several acquisitions.

She spent nearly a decade prior to Fabric building the people function at JW Player and was CHRO during their merger with Conatex.

Before JW Player, Jillian led HR and operations at Mashable.

For investors and operators pursuing growth through acquisitions, Jillian brings a perspective that often gets missed in the deal thesis, which is that every acquired capability comes with people challenges in addition to everything else.

The question is whether those people challenges receive the same rigor as the transaction itself.

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I want to take us a step back before Fabric.

Jillian, you were CHRO at JW Player when it was merged with Conatex, right?

Here we have PragerU, a conservative company.

They're using a media player, and the media player, JW Player, says, "Uh, no, we're not gonna let you use our media player to host your videos." Okay, so this kind of stuff goes really, really far down.

Zoom recently says, "Oh, there's somebody talking about, uh, Palestine on our platform." No, they canceled a scheduled webinar.

Zoom does not just allow you to talk about whatever.