Listen "Ep. 7: Anne Solmssen on Iterating A Product & Serving as CTO of a Growing Startup"
Episode Synopsis
On this episode, we welcomed Anne Solmssen, CTO at Ethena – a startup that provides personalized, digestible harassment prevention training for modern teams. Ethena’s platform is deployed at notable companies including Netflix, Figma, and Zendesk, and uses humor and a micro-learning approach to make compliance training feel engaging and relevant. A New York City native, Anne first became interested in computer science after her high school teacher, Mr. Campbell, encouraged her to take his course after seeing no freshman girls enrolled in computer science. Now as CTO of Ethena, Anne leads the technical team and product development process. Anne discusses the hypothesis-driven product development cycle that made Ethena the novel, well-loved product it is today, the importance of getting customer feedback and hiring great talent, and how she is leading Ethena in changing the conversation around harassment training.
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