Brick by Brick: The Consulting to Startup COO Playbook - Christy Augustine, COO of Bloomreach

Christy Augustine is the Chief Operating Officer at Bloomreach, a global company that provides AI-powered e-commerce personalization products. Christy was previously at Bain, Hewlett Packard, and Walmart.com.

In this episode, Christy discusses her career journey from engineering to business strategy, her experience joining and growing Bloomreach over the past decade, and advice for early career professionals.

In this episode, we cover:

- Christy's background and early career path, from studying math and computer science in college to joining HP

- How she transitioned to the business side through an MBA at Harvard

- The decision to join Bain Consulting right after her MBA and how that helped her get insights into multiple businesses

- Why she chose to join Bloomreach, a "stealth startup" at the time, and the evolution of the company from a single product to a multi-product platform

- Christy's role and career progression at Bloomreach, from building new product lines to eventually becoming Chief Operating Officer

- Advice for early and mid-career professionals on developing a diverse skill set and taking on new challenges to prepare for leadership roles

Links:

Follow Christy on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinaaugustine/

Bloomreach website - https://www.bloomreach.com/en

Brick by Brick is presented by Garuda Ventures (https://garuda.vc).

About Garuda Ventures:

Garuda Ventures is a B2B-focused pre-seed and seed venture fund. Garuda is a first-check firm and aims to earn the right to be a founder's first call as they go about building their companies. To learn more, visit https://www.garuda.vc

Today's episode was hosted by Arpan Punyani. Find Arpan on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/arpanpunyani/), Substack (https://arpanpunyani.substack.com/) or X/Twitter (https://x.com/arpanpunyani)

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