Robert Gordon Iv Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

BLCK VC’s mission is to connect, engage, empower, and advance Black venture investors.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

We’re on a mission to create healthy, equitable workplaces where employees are valued, supported, and empowered. To discuss work issues confidentially with a trained peer counselor, text HELLO to 510-674-1414.Empower Work is a non-profit that envisions a world where everyone can thrive at work. When work actually works for people, individual’s economic and emotional well-being increases. And there is a ripple effect: communities, companies, the economy, and our democracy, thrive. Our approach fuels positive change in three key ways: 1) Our text line provides immediate, confidential support at critical work moments,2) Our trained peer counselors utilize their robust training not just on the line, but in their workplaces, and 3) Aggregate, anonymous data from the conversations can inform new approaches, tools, trainings, and policies for systemic workplace change.Our text line is freely accessible thanks to generous support from organizations and individuals who believe in our mission, and earned revenue from trainings and partnerships.

We create solutions and narratives that launch your brand to the stars by utilizing data to provide insights and strategies to level up your business development, vertical growth, & marketing.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Culture is Karma is a business podcast & community that demystifies people management, leadership, and work culture dynamics.https://CultureIsKarma.com

Distributed, Us

The Audio Collective is a hybrid live-audio creator community, production house, and ambassador group. We help individuals and organizations expand their impact on and off Clubhouse. Learn more at audiocollective.co

New York, Ny, Us

Subject matter expert/consultant effectively solving client business challenges by providing insight, strategies, and solutions. Focus areas: Vertical Growth, Digital Marketing, Branding, Change Management.

San Francisco, California, Us

*ACQUIRED BY MULTIVERSE (2024)*Searchlight’s Predictive Talent Platform improves employee retention, hiring efficiency, and Quality of Hire with talent assessments, actionable insights, & analytics. Used by Zapier, Coinbase, Verana Health, and more. Searchlight's people-first mission is to make hiring a win-win for everyone by understanding talent better.Backed by Accel, Shasta, Kapor Capital, Operator Collective, Y Combinator. Building for a more connected and equitable future.(YC W19)

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Cohort I

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Flockjay is a Y Combinator, Serena Williams, Will Smith, Gabrielle Union, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, & Impact America Fund-backed Series A B2C + B2B startup company whose mission is to empower upward mobility through education and access. Fellows in Flockjay's program receive high-impact, hands-on sales training from world-class experts at companies including Google, Box, Dropbox, and Intercom.Flockjay debuted on Product Hunt at #1, was a Top 10 Y Combinator Startup by Techcrunch, and the Venture Award Grand Prize Winner at the 10th Annual ASU GSV EdTech Summit.(YC W19)

San Francisco, California, Us

I sat on the leadership team and was the head strategic partnerships, business development, growth, and fundraising. During my time at /dev/color, we secured some great strategic partners - Adobe, Atlassian, Autodesk, Bank of America, Capital One, Concrete Rose, DoorDash, eBay, Facebook, First Round Capital, Fitbit, Google, Gusto, Harlem Capital, Mailchimp, Netflix, Nextdoor, Patreon, Pinterest, Qualcomm, Quip, Spotify, Square, Twilio, Twitter, Uber, Workday, Yardi, Yelp, 4th & King, and more. We utilized deep data and insights to inform what moves our members, partners, and the software engineering field at scale./dev/color is the strongest membership community of Black software engineers in the world.(YC W16)

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Black Venture Institute - Cohort I

MatchPoll is a gamified A.I. professional discovery network. Our platforms match people to opportunities through soft-skills and personality characteristics.Products: Qualified - More qualified hiring results in higher employee job satisfaction, lower turnover, and increased diversity. So, how do you better qualify candidates? Where is the flaw in hiring today? Soft skills. Personality fit. These critical success factors take far more time to assess and can be difficult to identify. As a result, we make unconscious biases in hiring. Qualified uses a fun, engaging, humanistic approach to tackle unconscious-bias motivations and make job search and professional networking more approachable for employers and job seekers. The product philosophy is to allow users the platform to discover, learn and connect through peer driven insights.We qualify outside professional-development partners for members to earn badges and progress their professional and technical skills.

San Francisco, California, Us

*ACQUIRED BY SOCIAL CAPITAL (2020)*

San Francisco, California, Us

Hustle's mission is to empower companies to humanize communication. Hustle helps companies like Comcast, Salesforce, LiveNation, Lime, Lyft, Uber & WeWork build long-term relationships with their customers and supporters alike with our peer-to-peer text messaging platform.Hustle is an Insight Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and GV backed series B SaaS startup.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

The Presidio Institute is a program of the Presidio Trust, a federal agency.

*ACQUIRED BY NLA (2017)*LEADEROSITY is a SaaS leadership development platform for the emerging, mid-career, and senior leaders who seek to create meaningful, lasting impact by sharpening their leadership skills and expanding their networking strategies.LEADEROSITY is made possible by American Express, the Kresge Foundation, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Washington, Dc, Us

America's Promise Alliance is the nation’s largest partnership dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth, founded by General Colin Powell (we miss you).

Delivered best-in-class compelling content while leveraging global influencers to maximize cross-sector client brand potential.• Led, directed, and oversaw the creation of social marketing and digital product solutions for corporate and non-profit clients, including Black Entertainment Television (BET), NBCUniversal, Oxygen, and City Year; developed creative & strategy for all digital and social media content for reality TV actor who starred in hit reality TV show with 2M+ viewership.• Co-produced award winning documentary Push: Madison vs. Madison; film purchased by ESPN, PBS, SnagFilms, and ASPiRE.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Advanced the organization’s technology infrastructure and communications reach through development and execution of holistic digital strategy.• Led the development of a three-year digital outreach/new media strategy that identified and prioritized development initiatives in accordance with the organization's overall strategic plan.• Directed, planned and managed enterprise wide digital information technology systems, to include server migration, software and hardware support; server and user management, and procurement and implementation of system upgrades which led to greater communications efficiencies at a 24% reduced cost.• Developed regional economic and policy reports and studies, to include reports on earned income tax, the state of non-profits, Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) asset mapping, and data analysis.

🎶 Nights & weekends.

Washington, Dc, Us

Strengthened state political campaigns and voter base by learning best practices in utilizing new and emerging social media platforms for maximum impact.• Directed operations for the 2006 NJ Senatoral Campaign in southern New Jersey by managing team of 15 and organized digital & grassroots operations of 500+ volunteers that won county freeholder seat for the first time in 25 years.• Executed the 2006 New Jersey State Democratic Conference and oversaw the 2006 caucus sessions• Trained elected officials and their staff around the state to strengthen their local campaign base.

West Point, New York, Us

• Provided cost-benefit analysis for the marketing strategy of the Army Game Project, the world's 6th most played game.• Conducted Pentagon-funded research and Statistical Analysis System (SAS) analysis for the Base Realignment and Closure program, a process that led to the closure of military installations internationally to increase United States Department of Defense efficiency.

West Point, Ny, Us

Helped with customers’ luggage, organized closets (especially the main closet in the lobby - it was nice that they gave me a chair for downtime), and washed a bunch of dishes for free - with excellence. Multiple-time Kobe Bryant Awardee for being the only person on staff referenced by customers as having a striking resemblance to the great Kobe Bryant. Was great…🙄

New York, Ny, Us

Subscribed, delivered, and collected (when doors were answered) for the New Jersey Record Newspaper Company - with excellence. Was paid in dollars and coins. Territory: Hibben and Magie Apartment Complex

B.A., Political Science, Communications

Georgetown University New Strategies Program

Black Venture Institute Fellowship