About Us
Building and scaling a company can be grueling, overwhelming and lonely. From 2013 to 2018, startup leader Molly Graham was part of a tight community of COOs at startups and scaling companies. It became such a valuable experience in her career that in 2022, she launched the Glue Club — bringing startup leaders together to learn from each other. The experiment has grown into a powerful community — a home base where the strongest startup leaders in the world find sanity, opportunity, and growth amidst the chaos of building a company.
Meet the Glue Club Team
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Alice Hehman
I have led Operations, People & Recruiting teams for the past 15+ years. Prior to my work with Glue Club, I was COO at Quip, where I worked on Quip’s acquisition and operational integration with Salesforce. Earlier in my career, I had the good fortune of spending 7 years at Facebook building the U.S. business and operations recruiting function and establishing Facebook’s presence across APAC.
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Ashley Murphy
My career has included time at Wonderschool, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Summit Learning. Prior to joining the Glue Club team, I was working as an independent consultant, partnering with clients like Meta (business operations), The New Teacher Project (strategy and business operations), and AKKO (sales). I am also a first-time founder currently in the process of opening an elevated social club for little ones and their grownups in the Atlanta area.
I hold an MBA and MA in Education from Stanford, as well as an AB in Psychology from Harvard College. I live in the Atlanta Area with my husband and two children.
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Kate Clayton
I’ve been leading operations, partnerships and go-to-market teams at startups ranging from Seed to Series D for the past 15 years. Most recently, I led Operations, Customer Success, Partnerships, and Business Operations teams at Flockjay and Quizlet, and prior to that spent 7 years building at HotelTonight (acquired by Airbnb) after joining as the 6th employee.
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Molly Graham
I have been the COO/Head of Operations for multiple organizations, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Quip (acquired by Salesforce), and Lambda School. I have also served as a board member, an advisor or interim exec at a wide variety of startups focused in fintech, climate, education, healthcare and Web3. Early in my career, I spent five years at Facebook doing things like developing their long-term mobile strategy and building its early People philosophy and systems.
I write about what I’ve learned on Substack, check out Lessons.
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Sara Grotting
I was most recently the Head of People for Quip (acquired by Salesforce), where I led People Operations, Technical Recruiting, owned the company operating system (internal communications, annual process, etc.), and managed four acquisitions. Prior to Quip, I was part of the Platform Team at First Round where I organized and hosted 150+ events for over 2,000 startup leaders.
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Tracey Baumwell
My primary experience comes from time spent building and running People & Ops teams in various media and tech companies; including SocialCode, Slate, NPR & The Washington Post. I snagged my coaching certification while working so that I could apply it in how I lead. I now own my own facilitation and coaching business where I spend the bulk of my time injecting humor and practicality into how we learn from the everyday blunders we encounter.
