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Madison Mciiwain

Founder of The Room Podcast

Boston, Massachusetts

Overview 

Madison McIIwain is an MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School and a Forbes Under 30 member, known for co-hosting The Room Podcast and being an active investor specializing in seed stage investments in sectors like retail, logistics, e-commerce, and consumer internet. With a background in product management at companies like LVMH and Gap Inc., Madison's career highlights include founding The Room Podcast and making strategic investments in companies like Field Day.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Host & Founder

    2020 - Current

    110+ Episodes ft. Perplexity AI ($9B) Cloudflare (NYSE: NET) ($25B) Brex ($12.3B) Zapier ($5B) Vanta ($1.6B) Nubank (NYSE: NU) ($35B) Runway ML ($1.5B) Merge ($300M) Hightouch ($400M) and more.

  • Digital Innovation

    2024 - 2024

    Supported global innovation team on strategy and implementation related to Gen AI, crypto, and frontier technology (such as metaverse).

Louis Vuitton North America is offers fashion and leather goods.

  • Partner, Seed

    2020 - 2023

    Established firm's seed practice investing at the earliest stages of growth in b2b and b2c companies. Sectors included data infrastructure, fintech, b2b saas, marketplaces, etc.

Defy is a seed-stage venture fund focused on emerging, high-potential opportunities.

  • Technical Product Manager - Returns Optimization & Order Management

    2018 - 2020

The Gap is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer.

  • Research and Data Management Intern

    2017 - 2017

    Acquired by Google AI 2018.

  • Endowment Intern (Hanover Office)

    2016 - 2017

    I aided the operations team in managing the marketable portfolio. Additionally, I collaborated on projects which streamlined office processes and task management.

  • Intern

    2017 - 2017

Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories.

Raised $626,149,985.00 from Ares Management.

  • College Ambassador

    2015 - 2016

    Helped to facilitated surveys on campus to provide context for future investment opportunities. Subsequently helped to identify emerging technology spaces, with special interest in Generation Y’s impact on trends.

  • Investment Team Intern

    2015 - 2015

    As an investment team intern, mainly on the equity side, I assisted in a number of tasks including research on potential managers, current manger quarterly report summarization, research into new or evolving alternative asset classes, data entry into excel and more. As the only investment intern, I was able to sit in on meetings and enjoy a hands on learning experience.

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