As the world works to contain the COVID-19 outbreak, our own community has gone into overdrive. We’re so proud of our Operator Collective LPs for leading this charge. Here are some of the ways they’re using their platforms, tools, and networks to help.
Eric Yuan, Kelly Steckelberg, Janine Pelosi – Zoom
In today’s everything-from-home economy, Zoom has become the de facto tool for communications, virtual meetings, remote work, family chats, and more. But what about our schools? As educational institutions shut down around the world, the Zoom team truly stepped up, offering its video conferencing tool free to any K-12 school.
Rachel Carlson – Guild Education
Rachel Carlson has emerged as a persuasive voice in the coronavirus crisis, imploring her fellow business leaders to #StopTheSpread. She co-wrote a letter imploring Americans to take “bold action” to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and then a more direct ask to corporate leaders. By circulating the letter, Carlson hopes business leaders can remove some of the burden from local, state, and federal governments.
Kimber Lockhart – One Medical
One Medical is a membership-based primary care practice. In addition to offering same-day appointments, providers offer 24/7 video visits. One Medical has also created a Coronavirus Help Center with resources to help everyone stay up to date with the latest information.
Nihal Mehta – Eniac Ventures + Reshma Saujani – Girls Who Code
Nihal Mehta recently launched Help Main Street, a crowdfunded platform to keep shops, restaurants, and industry workers afloat via gift card sales. Want to help your local favorites? Go to helpmainstreet.com to purchase gift cards to provide critical cash support during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Jennifer Tejada – PagerDuty
PagerDuty is a platform that helps companies manage the full spectrum of their digital operations. As healthcare organizations struggle with demand and stress, they need to stay prepared and “always on.” To that end, Tejada and PagerDuty recently announced an offer for healthcare organizations: 20 PagerDuty licenses free for six months.
Christina Kosmowski – Slack
Slack has seen huge increases in paid customers since the coronavirus outbreak, offering plenty of content to facilitate remote working (including this Guide to Working Remotely in Slack). They’ve also announced free upgrades to teams working to solve the crisis.
Michelle Zatlyn – Cloudflare
Cloudflare accelerates Internet properties, helping businesses stay productive from any location. Early in the coronavirus outbreak, Zatlyn and team made their enterprise-grade features available to small businesses at no cost, offering unlimited seats of Cloudflare for Teams through September 1.
Lexi Reese – Gusto
Gusto is an automated platform for payroll, HR, and employee benefits, aimed specifically at small businesses. They’ve recently launched a COVID-19 Resource Hub to offer small businesses the most updated news, information, and advice.
