Brown-Philpot: Recruiters offering her CEO roles ultimately invested in Cherryrock Capital
Stacy Brown-Philpot · How to Raise Capital & Invest in the Underinvested (with Stacy Brown-Philpot) | Masters of Scale · Jun 20, 2025 · at 7:59
Stacy Brown-Philpot, former TaskRabbit CEO and founder of Cherryrock Capital, explains how people who initially pushed her toward executive and board roles instead backed her venture fund.
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“And so once I decided to start a venture firm, all those people who wanted me to do something else, some of them invested in my fund, super excited, to this day, send me great opportunities.”
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