Female Founders: Beth Porter of ‘Riff Analytics’ On Why We Need More Women Founders, and The Five Things You Need To Thrive as A Founder

Creating a culture that you want to be a part of takes work. — Culture doesn’t come for free. It’s not an if-you-build-it-they-will-come kind of situation. You need to take an active role in nurturing the attitudes and behaviors that embody the spirit of the company that you want to create. I knew this from working in healthy and toxic cultures alike, but I’d never built it from scratch before.

As a part of our series about strong women leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Beth Porter, CEO and co-founder of Riff Analytics, and the co-founder and Managing Director at Esme Learning Solutions. Formerly, Beth was the VP of Higher Education Platform at Pearson Education and VP of Product at edX. Beth has led research and development of products that seek to transform online teaching and learning, including driving the Open edX initiative at edX and architecting the original Texas OnCourse program. Her roles in higher education include lecturer at Boston…