Jay Steinfeld is the founder of Blinds.com, the company he built from a $1,500 startup into the world's largest online retailer of window coverings before selling it to Home Depot in 2014. Unlike most founders, Jay chose to remain after the acquisition, spending six years leading the integration of Blinds.com into one of the world's largest retailers while serving on Home Depot's Online Leadership Team. That uncommon journey gave him a unique perspective on entrepreneurship, enterprise leadership, organizational culture, and innovation at scale. Jay is also the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Lead from the Core: The 4 Principles for Profit and Prosperity. Today he serves as Board Chair of Datavations, advises companies including Mado Dynamic and PreFix, supports entrepreneurship through the Herb Kelleher Entrepreneurship Center, and contributes to organizations such as XPRIZE and Hand in Hand. In this conversation, we explore why the acquisition isn't the end of the entrepreneurial journey, what founders can learn from staying after the sale, how innovation survives inside large organizations, and why leadership after success may be the most important chapter of all.
G. Mick Smith, PhD, The Doctor of Digital
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