{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Breaking Precedent","title":"Boardroom Break-in: Stacy Brown-Philpot on Power, Leadership, and Playing the Long Game [Replay]","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3517,"description":"What happens when leadership becomes a way of creating opportunity for other people?\nThis summer, Breaking Precedent is revisiting conversations that feel just as resonant now as when they were first recorded. In this episode, Leah Solivan sits down with Stacy Brown-Philpot to explore leadership, resilience, trust, and what it means to build systems that help more people participate in wealth creation.\nStacy Brown-Philpot is a longtime operator, board leader, investor, and former CEO of TaskRabbit whose career spans Google, the gig economy, inclusive capital, and the launch of Cherry Rock Capital. Her story begins in Detroit, in a four-generation household shaped by women who taught her to stand up for herself, care for others, and never let circumstances define who she could become.\nThe conversation traces Stacy's path from Detroit to Penn, Stanford, Google, TaskRabbit, SoftBank, and Cherry Rock Capital. Leah and Stacy reflect on what it takes to build trust inside a company, why TaskRabbit's human side mattered as much as its technology, how hard decisions can save a business, and why access to capital is not a pipeline problem. They also explore candor, resilience, inclusive investing, AI, founder self-awareness, and the leadership work of becoming more fully yourself.\nRelaunch Context\nThis episode originally captured Stacy Brown-Philpot at a moment of reflection across multiple chapters of her career: operator, CEO, board member, investor, and founder. The replay is preserved because its larger themes remain urgent: how leaders tell the truth without losing humanity, how companies scale without flattening trust, and how capital can become a tool for changing who gets to build enduring businesses.\n\nTimestamps\n00:00 Welcome back to Breaking Precedent00:21 Stacy Brown-Philpot's leadership through line01:20 Leah introduces Stacy Brown-Philpot02:20 Icebreaker: Detroit roots and karaoke confidence04:20 Growing up in a four-generation Detroit household05:30 Learning...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ZnB7esk3hxfFIoNnysnaXcdcNStXN6Vgj5GFpWxsycY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hZTZl/N2FhYTdlYjFlYjNj/MjZjZjU3MGMxYWM0/YWVlZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}