Susan Lyne

thumb|TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 - Day 3 (26352135984) Susan Lyne (born April 30, 1951) is an American media executive and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and Managing Partner of BBG Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies. Over the course of her career, she has held several senior leadership positions in various companies. She has served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, the fashion e-commerce platform Gilt Groupe, and the AOL Brand Group. In addition, she has held the position of President at ABC Entertainment, where she oversaw the development of prime-time programming. She also served as Executive Vice President at both The Walt Disney Company and AOL. Quotes Nobody retires from these jobs. You will be fired at some point. Because it's one of the great jobs," in a recent interview for Business Insider's podcast, "Success! How I Did It. So if you are somebody who is not afraid of risk and you love the creative process, it's great," she said. "Why would you not do it? I made multiple leaps where there were no guarantees that I was going to be successful, By the way, I was not always successful. But I think if you go into something new with an open mind, and you let people around you know what you don't know, for the most part they're going to link arms with you. I see many, many young women now — and that's part of what excites me about the startup world — who have left great jobs and said, 'I think I can build something,'" "Eighty percent of them will probably fail at it, but they'll learn a ton, and they'll either be much better when they go back into a corporate job or they'll start a second company and they'll succeed. That's the way that we learn. We learn by making mistakes. If you genuinely want to have a multifaceted career that takes you into multiple industries, then I think you have to be willing to fail. External links Category:Living people Category:Entrepreneurs Category:Businesswomen from the United States Category:1951 births Category:Women born in the 1950s Category:Company founders Category:Chief executive officers