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No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

#38: Julia Steyn, CEO of Maven and VP of Urban Mobility at General Motors

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Julia Steyn is the CEO of Maven, a mobility service by General Motors that gives users on-demand access to GM vehicles through an app. Under her leadership, Maven the has become one of the fastest growing personal mobility brands in North America. It's no surprise that Steyn knows what it takes to lead: The former Goldman Sachs VP joined GM in 2012 as vice president of corporate development and global mergers and acquisitions. Prior to that, Steyn was VP of Alcoa's merger and acquisitions. In this episode, Steyn discusses her leadership style, how she makes tough decisions and the future of driving, mobility and cars. Learn more about Maven: https://www.maven.com/us/ Follow Maven on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook: @DriveMaven Follow Julia Steyn on Twitter: @julia_steyn Follow General Motors on Twitter: @GM Follow General Motors on Instagram: @generalmotors No Limits Entrepreneur of the week: Andrea Meilgaard, Co-Founder of Frank Learn more about Frank: http://agencyfrank.co/ Contact Frank: [email protected] Know someone who should be a featured ‘No Limits’ Entrepreneur? Send your nominations to [email protected]. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0

I like being out of my comfort zone. So I would just recommend take a leap of faith. What's the worst that's going to happen? So it doesn't work out. And then you still yourself. You've still been successful before. You're going to gain your groove back and just move on. Welcome to No Limits. I'm Rebecca Jarvis.

0:22.6

Each week, we're talking to women playing at the top of their game.

0:28.0

So how are they doing it?

0:30.2

Whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right

0:35.5

place.

0:39.7

Julia Stain, welcome to No Limits. Thank you for having me. We're very excited to be in New York

0:45.3

with Maven today. I'm so excited to talk to you about Maven, the future of driving,

0:49.5

mobility, cars, but I want to start a little bit with your backstory because it's fascinating to me. You grew up

0:57.0

in Russia. That's correct. I'm long way from home. What did you think as a child, did you ever

1:03.9

envision yourself running a new company? No. I grew up playing the piano and so that's how I came to the United States to be a

1:13.8

concert pianist. And one thing leads to another and I was always good at math and that led me to

1:19.9

the career in business. And now I am on the forefront of a lot of changes in the automotive world

1:25.9

and I couldn't be happier.

1:28.2

So you played piano as a child. You came to the United States. You went to Oberlin.

1:33.5

You went to the University of Chicago for your MBA, which is where I went undergrad for economics.

1:37.9

Awesome. I love that school. I have a lot of respect because I know it's not an easy school.

1:43.1

No. There's no easy A's at the University of

1:45.3

Chicago. No. So when you went to business school, did you have it in your mind? Did you know at that time

1:51.9

what you were going to use the business degree to do? I really wanted to come and work on Wall Street,

1:58.2

and I couldn't have thought of a better platform to do that at the

2:01.4

University of Chicago and my dream has always been to work at Goldman Sachs so I've

2:06.4

never applied to anybody else and I just came to Goldman Sachs I was fortunate to

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