User:Suz Trailblazer/Lisa Winning

Lisa Winning is an entrepreneur and digital technologist. She was the Founder and CEO of New York and Silicon Valley based startup, HeTexted. The website and app for crowdsourced advice led to book deals with Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster, comprised of the site's most popular user generated content.

The startup was described as "an incredibly addicting formula ", and her unique idea to crowdsource advice for Millennials was covered by ABC News’ Good Morning America, CNN , The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital , The Guardian , and Today.

Winning raised venture capital from Silicon Valley investors including Dave McClure of 500 Startups, and is represented by US talent agency William Morris Endeavor, allowing the tech startup to expand into other media categories including books and film.

She has been interviewed by Good Morning America, the Huffington Post , CNBC , the Evening Standard and Marie Claire.

Winning has contributor columns with Forbes, and Virgin writing about technology and startups.

Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics Category:Women chief executives Category:Technology company founders Category:Chief executives in the technology industry Category:Living people