• What is Grasshopper Bank, who it serves and how it is different
• Dramatic story of fundraising and starting a bank
• Tips for starting a bank
• Her WHY 
• Her unconventional upbringing
• Challenges and mistakes, and what she learned from them 
• Women and diversity 
• How COVID-19 is impacting and will impact our way of work and life

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Bio:

Judith was on the founding executive team for Square 1 Bank in 2005, responsible for venture capital services globally. Square 1 successfully went public in 2014 and was later sold to Pacific Western Bank. She previously worked at Imperial and Comerica. After 35 years in banking, Judith knew it was the time to make significant changes in the commercial banking industry. Her strategy was to build a bank from scratch providing both a modern technological framework and intuitive user experience for the digital entrepreneurs Grasshopper serves.

Grasshopper is a digital bank serving founders, their companies, and the investors supporting them across the innovation economy. They make banking simple, secure, effortless and transparent.