Nationality American | Name Stacey Ferreira | |
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Born September 11, 1992 ( 1992-09-11 ) Scottsdale, AZ Occupation MySocialCloud’s (Vice President)
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Stacey Ferreira (born September 11, 1992) is an American entrepreneur, speaker and author. She is the co-founder and CEO of Forge, an on-demand labor marketplace.
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- Millennials are screwed stacey ferreira tedxnyu
- Interview stacey ferreira creative entrepreneur
- Early childhood and education
- MySocialCloud
- 2 Billion Under 20 How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers Changing the World
- Thiel Fellowship and Forge
- Awards and recognition
- References
Ferreira, also co-founded the online bookmark vault and password manager MySocialCloud.com with her brother Scott Ferreira. MySocialCloud is an, and its investors include Sir Richard Branson, Jerry Murdock, and Alex Welch. She has been featured on and contributed to several news outlets, including The Huffington Post, Women 2.0, Business Insider, TechCrunch. And in 2016, she entered the Forbes list of 30 under 30, as part of the 600 brightest young entrepreneurs and leaders in the USA.
Interview stacey ferreira creative entrepreneur
Early childhood and education
Ferreira was born on September 11, 1992 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her mother, Patricia Ferreira, worked in accounting for IBM and then later became an accountant at the State of Arizona. Her father Victor Ferreira, is a Vice President of Sales at IBM.
She attended Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girls Catholic high school in Phoenix, AZ, to complete her high school degree. At the age of 11, she served as a Board Member for a nonprofit, Open Table, which her brother cofounded. She also spent her high school summers getting involved in media by working at a local Phoenix educational TV station and pursuing her passion in music through GRAMMY Camp.
After founding MySocialCloud, Stacey proceeded to attend New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to study Music Business. However, after one year she took a leave of absence to pursue MySocialCloud full-time.
MySocialCloud
Ferreira co-founded MySocialCloud with her brother, Scott Ferreira, and programmer, Shiv Prakash, while she was still in high school. The idea originally stemmed from a computer crash that left Scott without the spreadsheet he used to store usernames and passwords for his online accounts. In 2013, the siblings sold MySocialCloud to Reputation.com and moved from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area.
2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers & Changing the World
After selling MySocialCloud, Ferreira worked with Jared Kleinert to co-author 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers And Changing The World. It highlights stories of 75 young people from across the globe who challenged the status quo of education in America. The book was published by St. Martin's Press in the summer of 2015 and rose to be the #1 New Release in the Business Leadership category on Amazon.
Thiel Fellowship and Forge
In 2015, Ferreira became a part of the Thiel Fellowship, a two-year program for 20 young individuals who drop out of college to build their careers. She began working on Forge as a part of her fellowship. She teamed up with Scott Ferreira, Lloyd Jones and Talulah Riley to cofound Forge, an on-demand labor marketplace. She now serves as CEO In November 2015, the team raised up to $1.5M in venture funding.
Awards and recognition
Ferreira is a speaker with the United States State Department, and has spoken across the globe about entrepreneurship and its impact on economies, Millennials and the future. She occasionally speaks at popular conferences, including TechCrunch Disrupt, GetInTheRing, We Are the Future’s Startup Summit, NextGen Summit, TEDxNYU, TEDxYouthSanDiego and GRAMMY Media Week. She has been a guest contributor to Virgin Entrepreneurship, Inc., Forbes, and Women 2.0. She has also received recognition for her achievements, including: