Pamela FurstSenior Manager, Customer Success

The Jellyfish Legacy | Andrew Lau (Jellyfish CEO & Co-Founder)

Name: The Jellyfish Legacy | Andrew Lau (Jellyfish CEO & Co-Founder)
Uploaded: 2021-11-15T15:00:23+00:00
Duration: 1 min 24 s
Channel: Pamela Furst
Description: In this reflective interview segment, Andrew Lau recounts how he and his co‑founders first met at a company two decades ago, built a strong culture that…

15 Nov 2021 · 1 min

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In this reflective interview segment, Andrew Lau recounts how he and his co‑founders first met at a company two decades ago, built a strong culture that later produced a vibrant diaspora of Boston‑area startups and public companies. He emphasizes the importance of hiring, fostering a supportive environment where people could succeed and fail, and how that community has continued to create impact. Looking forward, Lau expresses a hopeful vision for Jellyfish: that in 15 years the company will be remembered for spawning a network of innovators—investors, restaurateurs, founders, and nonprofit leaders—who met through Jellyfish and go on to change the world. This legacy, alongside traditional business success, is what he aspires to achieve.

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My co-founders actually met at a company 20 years ago. But I look back and like, you know, I think we made great— we made a great outcome for the company. We grew our careers there. But the thing I'm most proud of that experience is that 10 years after that company got acquired, there's this huge diaspora of a dozen or two dozen companies in the Boston area, national arena, that have actually gone to become public companies, really notable startups that actually are making a dent in the world. And those are all people we actually hired in the mid-aughts, that we set the right culture, we set the right tone, we allowed everyone to succeed and fail, and we learned a lot together. And that community and that diaspora is something I'm super proud of. So when I look at Jellyfish, what I hope for I hope that, you know, 15 years from now we look back and we're like, wow, look at all those folks doing just crazy stuff that I couldn't even imagine today. People will be investors, restaurant innovators, new companies that we haven't even thought of, people changing the world with crazy nonprofits, and they're doing it with people they actually met here. Like, that's something I'm gonna be super proud of if that actually happens. And like, for me, that would be a legacy I'd love to see, in addition to the success of the company and the category and, and all the other parts that actually define traditional success.