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No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

#53: Bozoma Saint John, Chief Brand Officer, Uber

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Bozoma Saint John aka Boz is a true trailblazer. She's held executive roles at marquee brands like Apple, Beats and Pepsi - BuzzFeed even called her the "coolest person to ever go on stage at an Apple event." She took the job at Uber during a moment of crisis in the company and against the advice of her family, friends and mentors - so why did she do it? What’s the game plan for Uber? You’re about to find out. Follow Boz St. John on Instagram: www.Instagram.com/badassboz Follow Boz St. John on Twitter: www.twitter.com/badassboz Follow Uber on Instagram: www.instagram.com/Uber Follow Uber on Twitter: www.twitter.com/uber Want a chance to ask Rebecca your career questions? Send an email to [email protected] for a chance to ask Rebecca yourself on an episode of No Limits!   No Limits Entrepreneurs of the week: Miraya Berke and Liang Shi – Founders of Dessert Goals Find out more: http://dessertgoals.com/ 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

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0:08.0

When Uber comes to you and says, we're interested, this was a moment in time with Uber in the news, the headlines were not positive.

0:16.0

Yeah.

0:16.4

How many conversations did it take for you to be like, okay, Bose, I think that's what I'm going to do.

0:21.4

I'm going to go work for Uber now.

0:22.5

Exactly.

0:23.3

Right, because literally no one told me that was a good idea.

0:27.2

From ABC, it's no limits.

0:30.5

I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most bold and influential women laying at the top of their game, trying to demystify success and

0:39.9

what it really takes to get there, and all the trade-offs. Whether you're looking for answers

0:45.3

or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place. On today's episode, she's a risk

0:53.5

taker and a culture shaper.

0:56.0

Bozima St. John is Uber's new chief brand officer, a job she took at a moment of crisis for the company.

1:02.6

So what made this former Apple exec with a resume filled with marquee brands and titles defy the advice of all her family, friends, and mentors? And what's the

1:13.7

Uber game plan? You're about to find out. Bozma, say, John, welcome to No Limits. Thank you.

1:20.8

But I'm going to call you Bose because everyone calls you Bose. Yes. All my friends call me Bose.

1:24.3

All right. And you're our friend here at No Limits. Thank you for coming. So I want to talk about your whole career because it's filled with leadership rules at marquee brands like Apple and Beats and Pepsi and you worked with Spike Lee early on.

1:36.9

But let's start with Uber because you recently took on this new role you joined Uber as their chief brand officer.

1:43.8

So what do you do as a chief brand officer,

1:46.3

Bose? I create magic. I put on a magic show. Magic show. I mean, it's true. It's a, it's a

1:54.0

combination of things. You know, it's the practical things like creating commercials and overseeing our

1:59.0

social media and doing like experiential and

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