Stacey Ferreira (born September 11, 1992) is an American entrepreneur, speaker and author. She is the former co-founder and CEO of Forge. Today, she is at Ford, serving as their Director of Retail Execution and Innovation for the Model e. Ferreira also co-founded the online bookmark vault and password manager MySocialCloud.com with her brother Scott Ferreira. MySocialCloud investors include

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, Jerry Murdock, and Alex Welch. In 2016, she was added to ''

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Early childhood and education

Ferreira was born on September 11, 1992, in

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. Her mother, Patricia Ferreira, worked in accounting for

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and later became an accountant at the State of Arizona. Her father, Victor Ferreira, is a Vice President of Sales at IBM. She attended

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, to complete her high school degree. She served as a Board Member for the

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Open Table, which her brother cofounded, when she was 11. She also worked at a local Phoenix educational TV station and attended GRAMMY Camp. After founding MySocialCloud, Stacey attended New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to study Music Business. After one year, she took a leave of absence to pursue MySocialCloud full-time.

MySocialCloud

Ferreira co-founded MySocialCloud with her brother, Scott Ferreira, and programmer, Shiv Prakash, while she was in high school. The idea came after a computer crash that left Scott without the spreadsheet he used to store usernames and passwords for his online accounts. In 2013, the siblings sold MySocialCloud to Reputation.com and moved from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area.

2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers & Changing the World

After selling MySocialCloud, Ferreira worked with Jared Kleinert to co-author ''2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers And Changing The World.'' The book rose to the #1 New Release position in the Business Leadership book category on

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Thiel Fellowship and Forge

In 2015, Ferreira became a part of the Thiel Fellowship, a two-year program for individuals who've dropped out of college to build their careers. She co-founded Forge with Scott Ferreira, Lloyd Jones and

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through the fellowship. Forge is an application that businesses can use to allow hourly workers select their own shifts and manage schedules. As of 2015, Ferreira served as CEO of the company.

Awards and recognition

Ferreira has spoken with the United States State Department at TechCrunch Disrupt, GetInTheRing, We Are the Future’s Startup Summit, NextGen Summit, TEDxNYU, TEDxYouthSanDiego and GRAMMY Media Week. She has been a guest contributor to Virgin Entrepreneurship, Inc., Forbes, and Women 2.0. She has also received recognition for her achievements, including: * Forbes 30 Under 30 award for her work on Forge * On the cover of ''Seventeen Magazine'' as the Pretty Amazing Female Role Model of 2013 *''Business Insider'' naming her one of the “Most Successful New College Dropouts”

References

External links

*http://staceyferreira.com/ *http://mysocialcloud.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferreira, Stacey 1992 births Living people American women chief executives American technology chief executives Writers from Scottsdale, Arizona American technology company founders Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development alumni New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study alumni Thiel fellows 21st-century American women