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    Brett Northart

    Brett Northart

    Founded @le-tote , @ypo-young-presidents-organization SF Bay, @y-combinator alum

    Entrepreneur San Francisco University of Califor...
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    Experience
    MyConvoy
    Exit
    MyConvoy
    Advisor
    Axius
    Exit
    Axius
    Advisor
    Le Tote
    Le Tote
    Founder, President 2012 - Present (over 14 years)
    Kernel Group Holdings
    Kernel Group Holdings
    COO 2021 - 2023 (about 2 years)
    Kernel is $300mm+ SPAC focused on investing in a leading technology company. Kernel is listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker KRNL. Completed IPO in Feb. of 2021, we were 9x... more oversubscribed with nearly $3 Billion of demand. IPO investors include BlackRock, Blackstone, Citadel, Millennium, TRS, AIMCo, PIMCO, Elliott and Tudor.
    Lord & Taylor
    Lord & Taylor
    President & Chief Digital Officer 2019 - 2020 (about 1 year)
    Served as President and Chief Digital Officer, transforming the ecommerce business and leading our finance, engineering, product, design and data teams.

    I initiated,... more structured and led the acquisition of Lord + Taylor in 2019 to accelerate Le Tote's mission to define the future of retail. Lord + Taylor is the oldest department store chain in the US, and when we bought the business it had >$1BN in revenue and 5,000+ employees.
    Founder
    Le Tote
    Employee
    Lord & Taylor, Kernel Group Holdings
    Investor
     
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    Advisor
    MyConvoy, Axius
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    About
    Achievements

    Serial entrepreneur, YC alum, investor and operator. Built a category leading ecommerce company from $0 to hundreds of millions in revenue. Bio below:

    I founded Le Tote and scaled the company into one of the largest ecommerce rental companies in the world. We built an amazing team of over 500 employees, grew the business from zero to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and raised over $350mm from top tier VC and PE firms. Le Tote was part of the YC Summer 2013 batch and we were on the YC Top 100 Companies list in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

    While at Le Tote, I initiated, structured and led the acquisition of Lord + Taylor - the oldest department store chain in the US with >$1BN in revenues and 5,000+ employees. I also served as Chief Digital Officer of Lord + Taylor, leading all prod/eng/design.

    I also founded Kernel Group Holdings, a $305mm SPAC focused on investing in a leading technology company. Kernel is listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker KRNL.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Product Development Product Strategy Leadership Adobe Creative Suite Finance Web Design Recruiting E-Commerce
    Locations
    San Francisco
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