Linda Yates

One of Silicon Valley’s most renowned thought leaders, Linda Yates leverages the secrets of venture-driven startups to help organizations build their own successful growth engines at rapid pace.

The ground beneath global businesses is shifting more rapidly than ever before. A startling revelation from the World Economic Forum paints a vivid picture: 40% of CEOs fear their companies won't withstand the next decade without transformative change. This isn't a distant threat—it's an immediate call to action. 

Linda Yates is a seasoned CEO with over 30 years of experience creating global strategy and driving innovation for large multinationals around the world. As a native of Silicon Valley, she has an extensive network and has served as a bridge between the startups and VCs of Silicon Valley and the boardrooms and C-Suites of international corporations throughout her career. Her company, Mach49, unlocks venture-driven growth through building and investing, partnering with the Global 1000 to build their growth engines — creating portfolios of organic ventures, external investments, strategic partnerships, and targeted M&A that disrupt markets and create new ones.

Drawing from her bestselling book, The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed, Linda shares her proven strategies for how organizations can beat startups at their own game and generate rapid, meaningful growth. Laying out a learnable, repeatable, scalable program, she provides comprehensive advice for building a team and finding customer pain points; creating new products or services; developing a rigorous business and execution plan; and launching, accelerating, and scaling each venture. Audiences walk away empowered to seize the extraordinary opportunities that exist in this unprecedented era of change.

The Unicorn Within was an instant bestseller and was included in the “Top Ten Business Books of 2022” by Forbes. It is already being used as a textbook for several entrepreneurship and executive education programs across the world.

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