Rana DiOrio

Experience

Creative Mint

Founder & CEO 2018 - Present (over 8 years)

Creative Mint is a Web3 platform that funds and scales purpose-driven brands to make the world a better place.

March 4th

CEO & Chairman 2017 - 2019 (about 2 years)

Little Pickle Press

Founder & CEO 2009 - 2017 (almost 8 years)

Little Pickle Press, Inc. was a purpose-driven, award-winning children's media company sold to Sourcebooks, Inc. in January 2017.

Employee

Little Pickle Press, March 4th, Creative Mint

Education

About

Skills

Business Development Strategic Planning Business Strategy Operations Management Product Development

Locations

San Francisco

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux.

What's your favorite non-business book?

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

Your vulnerability is your strength.

What's the most creative thing you've ever done?

Write, produce, and publish 30+ award-winning children's picture books, including seven of my own.

What's your super power?

I help people to realize their dreams and become their best selves.

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

Please text me at +1.415.215.0004.

What words of wisdom do you live by?

Dream it. Do it.

What's something you wish you had done years earlier?

Become an entrepreneur. I helped hundreds of them as a lawyer, an investment banker, and an investor before I realized I was one myself.

Purpose-driven entrepreneur and early-stage investor in myriad sectors with legal, financial, and operational/start-up experience and an interdisciplinary + systems + design thinking approach. Board member seeking new opportunities.