What do you know about managing school district budgets?
This week, the Mikes speak with Jess Gartner, CEO and Founder of Allovue. Allovue is a Baltimore-based Ed-Fintech company that helps school districts allocate resources and manage their budgets to ensure equitable access to education resources for all students.
Jess started her career as a teacher in Baltimore City Schools. In that time, she came to experience the harsh realities facing schools and students--everything from a profound lack of resources to an unequal distribution of opportunities. Jess decided to leave teaching and build a solution that could start to help school districts solve some of the challenges managing their finances to serve their students more effectively. We talk to Jess about how she found her footing as a first-time CEO and how the skills she built in the classroom translated into her role as a founder and a corporate leader. We also talk about the challenges facing women in tech and in particular female CEOs trying to raise capital. Jess gives her advice to founders and reminds us that it's up to all of us in the tech community to work to help level the playing field for entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds.
