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Natalie Ledbetter

Natalie Ledbetter

Oct 13, 2026

1:03
But before we get into that, do you want to just give us a bit of a helicopter view of your career, what you've done and what brought you to today?
1:11
Yeah, absolutely.
1:13
So I have about 24 years of experience overall.
1:18
I typically will just focus on the last 13, which is when I entered the New York startup ecosystem.
1:26
And I essentially have been a people operations leader three different times.
1:32
I've also been the first hire in each of those startups in my discipline, which is typically pretty rare to have a very senior person who wants to come in and own strategy, but also execute on the ground and build on the ground.
1:47
And so that is something that I really enjoy doing and one of the reasons why I really love early stage startups.
6:18
What does that look like in a startup? Or what do you as a consultant have to think about when working with a startup? And what happens when this kind of gets misaligned?

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