68: Mallun Yen

 Mallun Yen has devoted the past 20 years to changing the status quo and shifting industry norms, as an enterprise executive, operator, and category-creator. These experiences laid the groundwork for Operator Collective, a venture fund and community she founded in 2018 to make venture accessible to a group critical to a startup’s success but largely left out: top operators from diverse backgrounds who have built and scaled the most admired companies in the world. Prior to founding Operator Collective, Mallun was at the forefront of other category-creating companies also rooted in community, including RPX ($0-$100M and IPO in 3 years), SaaStr (worlds’ largest b2b software community), ChIPsNetwork.org (4,000 members and 17 chapters around the world).