Karen Rubin

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Karen Rubin
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Karen Rubin, January 2014
Alma mater Trinity College
OccupationEntrepreneur
Father David C. Roy

Karen Ann Rubin (born Karen Ann Roy) is an entrepreneur. She joined HubSpot where she co-hosted HubSpot TV, [1] and was entrepreneur-in-residence at Matrix Partners in 2013-2014. In 2014, she joined Quantopian as Vice President of Product Management. [2] [3] In 2015 she authored a study that shows that women-led companies perform better than average. [4] She started her career in 2004 in investment banking.

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Early life and education

Rubin's father, David C. Roy, is a physicist turned kinetic sculptor and her mother is a sculptor turned business person. [5] From an early age, she showed in interest in presenting to the camera. [5] [6] She completed her BS in Computer Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 2004. She lettered ten times in cross-country, two times as Captain in the All Americans Division III Cross Country of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. [7] [8]

Career

Karen Rubin and Mike Volpe (right) host David Meerman Scott on HubSpot.TV February 13, 2009 Hubspottv-guest-dms.jpg
Karen Rubin and Mike Volpe (right) host David Meerman Scott on HubSpot.TV February 13, 2009

Beginning her career in 2004 in investment banking, she then completed four years as project manager for Promotions (acquired by TheStreet.com in 2007). She moved to Boston to join HubSpot as employee number 30 in 2008. Although her main job there was product management, she also co-hosted several hundred weekly episodes of a webcast called first "HubSpot TV" then "Marketing Update." [9] [1] [10] [11] In 2013-2014 she spent 14 months as entrepreneur-in-residence at Matrix Partners. From 2014 to 2016, she was VP of Product at Quantopian. [2] [3] In 2016 Rubin joined the robotics and teleconferencing company, Owl Labs, as VP of Growth. [7] [12]

Study of performance of women-led businesses

In 2015, Rubin published a study that shows that a hypothetical portfolio of investments in women-led companies would perform three times better than an investment in an index fund based on the S&P 500 over the same period. [13] [4] [14] Her study was inspired by a Credit Suisse’s Gender 3000 report, [15] [16] specifically that "Companies with more than one woman on the board have returned a compound 3.7% a year over those that have none..." and yet paradoxically only "12.7% of boards had gender diversity." [17]

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References

  1. 1 2 Kirsner, Scott (2011-05-01). "Seven cool hangouts". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2015-03-22. HubSpot.tv is a live talk show about new marketing strategies;
  2. 1 2 Dave Gerhardt (2014-09-28). "Tech In Boston #16 with Karen Rubin: The Early Days of Hubspot, Learning VC and Building for Quants". Tech In Boston. Retrieved 2015-03-21. Karen Rubin is Director of Product Management at Quantopian, a company that provides a platform for anyone to build, test, and execute trading algorithms.
  3. 1 2 "HubSpot goes public a week after Wayfair, raises $125 million". Boston Globe. 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2015-03-21. "I think HubSpot could be a company that produces lots and lots of entrepreneurs—lot of people who might spin out and start their own thing," Hower said. Already alums of HubSpot hold prominent roles as founders or executives at InsightSquared, Quantopian,
  4. 1 2 Wechsler, Pat (2015-03-03). "Women-led companies perform three times better than the S&P 500". Fortune magazine. Retrieved 2015-03-22. 'It's based on a buy-and-hold strategy aimed at looking at how well women CEOs have performed cumulatively,' says Karen Rubin, Quantopian's product manager.
  5. 1 2 Ben Mirin (2013-04-29). "VF Profiles: Karen Rubin - A Passion to Build in Boston". VentureFizz. Retrieved 2015-04-08. Her father studied physics in college and has since become a professional artist specializing in kinetic motion devices. Her mother studied sculpture and runs the family business that sells her husband's art.
  6. ↑ Karen Rubin (1991-01-25). "Training For HubSpot.TV". YouTube. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  7. ↑ U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. "2002 All Americans Division III Cross Country" (PDF). ustfccca.org. Retrieved 2015-03-22. Women: Roy, Karen - Trinity College (Connecticut)
  8. ↑ Rubin, Karen; Volpe, Mike. "Marketing Videos: HubSpot.tv". hubspot.tv. Archived from the original on 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2015-03-22. The old 'HubSpot TV' is now called 'Marketing Update'
  9. ↑ Kirsner, Scott (2009-08-28). "The Friday Five: Local Webcasts and Podcasts". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2015-03-22. HubSpot TV co-hosts Mike Volpe and Karen Rubin (pictured in the photo)...
  10. ↑ Kirsner, Scott (2010-07-16). "New book casts the Grateful Dead as brilliant marketers". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2015-03-22. Halligan and Scott will appear on HubSpot's weekly video webcast, HubSpot.tv, today at 4 PM to talk about the book.
  11. ↑ Rosen, Andy (2017-06-21). "Owl Labs unveils a new conferencing device". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  12. ↑ Kozlowska, Hanna; Antunes, Xana (2015-03-17). "Companies run by women perform better". Quartz. Retrieved 2015-03-22. [Rubin] was curious to figure out if you could correlate female leadership to superior stock performance
  13. ↑ Hickey, Walt (2015-03-18). "Significant Digits For Wednesday, March 18, 2015". FiveThirtyEight . Retrieved 2015-03-22. Karen Rubin analyzed the performance of Fortune 1000 companies...
  14. ↑ Rubin, Karen (2015-02-11). "Quantopian - Research: Investing in Women-led Fortune 1000 Companies". quantopian.com. Retrieved 2015-03-22. Credit Suisse's Gender 3000 report looks at gender diversity...
  15. ↑ Rubin, Karen; Dunn, Dan (2015-03-18). "How Women are Conquering the S&P 500". QuantCon 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
  16. ↑ Credit Suisse Research Institute (September 2014). "Credit Suisse Gender 3000: Women in Senior Management". Credit Suisse. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
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