Tag: Jessie Jacob

Diana Kander and Jessie Jacob, JD Insights

The problem with asking customers what they want? They lie (but not to this KC data duo)

By Tommy Felts / January 4, 2022

For years, Diana Kander has researched how to interview customers — specifically how to get the truth from them, she said. It’s been key to helping her work with companies to innovate and grow. But in early 2021 the consultant and author of “All In Startup” and “The Curiosity Muscle” was perplexed by a problem…

Read More >
Zach Anderson Pettet, Ben Milne, and Jessie Jacob, V-Sum

‘Nerds’ need value: Midwest trio connects global fintech players through virtual summit

By Tommy Felts / January 27, 2021

Fintech workers and industry innovators are starving for human connection amid a crazy 10 months of COVID and a pandemic’s-worth of dull virtual events, said Zach Anderson Pettet. “All of us nerds in our specific space — being financial services and financial technology — haven’t been able to congregate, so there’s been a lot of…

Read More >
Jessie Jacob, CoreBuild, The Culture Lab

Jessie Jacob: Investing in founders’ mental strength for scale

By Tommy Felts / January 11, 2019

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary about mental health and workplace culture are the author’s alone. We hear plenty of talk about the importance of mental health, as well as investing in culture for founders, but not a whole lot about people doing something about it. Perhaps they don’t know how or aren’t…

Read More >