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Linda Rottenberg

Co-Founder & CEO

Linda Rottenberg is one of the world’s leading voices in entrepreneurship, technology, and business
transformation. She is the cofounder and CEO of Endeavor, the preeminent global community of
high-impact entrepreneurs, and the president of Endeavor Catalyst, a rules-based investment fund.
Named “Innovator for the 21st Century” Time), “America’s Best Leader” U.S. News), “The World’s Mentor Capitalist” Thomas Friedman), and “The Entrepreneur Whisperer” ABC, FOX, NPR, Rottenberg for years was known as Chica Loca, the Crazy Girl, for being among the first to recognize the importance of entrepreneurship in emerging and growth markets.
With its unrivaled network, 40 offices around the globe, and founder-first philosophy, Endeavor
unlocks the transformational power of entrepreneurship by selecting, supporting, and investing in the world’s top founders and providing them avenues to pay it forward. Endeavor Catalyst has $250 million in assets under management, has made 170 investments across 30 markets, and counts 21
companies valued at more than $1 billion in its portfolio.

Rottenberg serves as a director of Globant, an $8 billion software pioneer (NYSE GLOB; Olo, a
SaaS-based restaurant ordering platform (NYSE OLO; and Reinvent Technologies, a SPAC formed
by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and Zynga founder Marc Pincus, which will merge with
insurtech firm Hippo in 2021 NYSE RTPZ, and Valor Latitude Acquisition Corp, a SPAC formed by
Scott and Cliff Sobel. She formerly served as a director of Zayo, a $15 billion global bandwidth
infrastructure company. She is a member of YPO, CFR, the World Economic Forum, and the Yale
President’s Council on International Activities. Rottenberg’s 2014 book, CRAZY IS A COMPLIMENT
The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags, was an instant New York Times bestseller.

The subject of four Harvard Business School and one Stanford Graduate School of Business case
studies, Rottenberg has received the following honors: the Silicon Valley Forum Visionary Award; the Heinz Award in technology, the economy, and employment; the World Economic Forum Young Global Leader; the Yale Law School Award of Merit, and a Babson College honorary doctorate in humane letters. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Rottenberg lives in Brooklyn with her husband, bestselling author Bruce Feiler, and their identical twin daughters.