Elisa Camahort Page: "Just A Girl”
This Week's Guest: Elisa Camahort Page
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
As one of the co-founders of BlogHer, Elisa Camahort Page had a guiding hand in the evolution of social influence and blogging. At the forefront of social web revolution, BlogHer was, in effect, one of the first groups to build value for women online through community, blogging, conferences, and commerce.
Elisa describes the moment in 2005 when she and her co-founders decided to create a conference solely for women—in a time when social media wasn’t around, but online discussions and influence definitely were. This conference evolved into a massive women’s media company, and BlogHer was later acquired in 2014 by SheKnows Media.
In this episode, Elisa makes the case that having women in leadership at a social media platform keeps the toxicity down, and discusses how tapping into the women and mom population helped to make blogging explode as a medium. Listen in as she describes why three co-founders is the ideal number for a new company, what it really feels like to be acquired, and how to approach your next request for funding or a promotion.
LINKS AND ARTICLES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Elisa’s 2018 book Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All written with co-authors Carolyn Gerin and Jamia Wilson
Blogger/Author Heather Armstrong from Dooce.com
Author Alice Bradley, aka Finslippy
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All to You by Christopher Durang
More About Our Guest
BlogHer founders Lisa Stone, Jory des Jardins, and Elisa Camahort Page
Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Co-founder of BlogHer and CEO of Cygnus
Elisa Camahort Page is a serial entrepreneur. She was the founding COO of BlogHer, Inc., which bootstrapped for two years before successfully raising four rounds ($20MM) of funding and achieving exit by acquisition. BlogHer was a movement that created a market, becoming a national women’s media brand with 100 million web users, thousands of conference attendees, and >$30 million in annual revenue.
Currently CEO of Cygnus, a Do Big Things company, which brings a new technical solution to progressive candidates and causes to help them avoid information overload and fact underwhelm when looking at their campaign data. Cygnus extracts insights and facilitates decision-making out of data.
She is a writer, including the 2018 book Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All written with co-authors Carolyn Gerin and Jamia Wilsonauthor, a guidebook on how to be a more effective everyday activist and advocate.
As a speaker, Elisa inspires makers, creators, and thought leaders to own their expertise and manage fear/risk to make bold leaps. Her guiding principle is: Innovation+Empathy>Innovation+Efficiency
