This former VC learned to go after massive markets... Christina clearly landed a BIG one building @trust_vanta the $4B AI compliance platform! #startup #Tech #vc #femaleleaders #forbes #vanta #founder

This Stanford grad's first startup failed, but today, Christina is one of Forbes's richest self-made women as the founder and CEO of Vanta, the four billion dollar AI compliance platform. And here's her store, MPSM Ruffin, follow me here for more female founder stories, just like this. Growing up in Ohio, Christina built her first business re-solving Beanie Babies, the OG Labubus. At Stanford, she dropped her computer science meat. Most founders at the time, fit a very specific mold, and she just couldn't see herself as the next Mark Zuckerberg. So after graduation, Christina joined Union Square Venture. And as a VC, she learned that there was no single type of successful entrepreneur. This inspired her to quit and launch her first startup, Nebula Lab. But after months of building, she realized that there was simply no more. So she sold the business for 20K and took a job and product management at Dropbox. And that's where she sold first-hand how broken security and compliance was. Finally, finding her massive market. So she quit to launch Vanta, a security and compliance AI platform helping businesses comply with standards like software. Notion was Vanta's first customer, but today they're used by over 12,000 companies, doing $220 million in ARR, just seven years after one. And they just closed their Series D, a $150 million dollar round of funding from top-tier investors like Sequoia, value and Christina's stake in the company at an estimated $830 million. And that's how.