Jessica Rolph – Startup Community – Power List

Having spent nearly two decades in the entrepreneurial space, Jessica Rolph is now leading her second venture. Prior to co-founding Lovevery in 2015, she was instrumental in establishing and growing organic baby food company Happy Family in 2005.

Today, as the co-founder and CEO of Lovevery, Rolph leads the company in innovating child development tools utilizing decades of well-established child development research.

When asked what current changes product innovators are preparing for regarding child development needs, Rolph responded: “For us it’s less about what has changed in the research — because so much has stayed the same when it comes to what a child needs for healthy brain development — and more about supporting families where they are today. For example, we created The Lovevery App so that busy caregivers can easily access and digest bite-sized facts and play ideas on their mobile device.”

Raising $100 million in its latest funding round, Lovevery achieved an $800 million valuation.

Lovevery credits its inception to Rolph’s reading a doctoral dissertation about the neurological development of infants, from which she took away “early development experiences wouldn’t just happen on their own, she had to create them.”

To fuel her entrepreneurial creativity and curiosity, Rolph is reading “Think Again” and enjoying its “evidence and data that build a case for embracing the joys of being wrong and how to become a lifelong learner.” She is also reading “Dare to Lead” and taking away important lessons, such as “don’t pretend to have the right answers; stay curious and ask the right questions.”