“Execution is the secret to success,” she said during an interview with FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday. “It separates the dreamers from the doers. And the last two decades of being an entrepreneur, a CEO, an executive, I’ve found that execution is truly what separates success from failure.”
Perell, who now heads the California-based market technology company, started her career at Xdrive, a company that eventually went up in smoke during the dot-com bubble when Perell was 23. She was left broke and unemployed without a future, she said.
But, she ultimately decided to follow in the path of her parents, both of whom were entrepreneurs, and take advantage of the digital economy and the worldwide web to launch her own company.
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Kim’s best-selling book, The Execution Factor, was published by McGraw Hill and is designed to help entrepreneurs achieve success in business and life. Her second book, which will be released in Fall 2021, is focused on helping people make the JUMP and do what scares them in their personal and professional life.
Kim’s achievements as an entrepreneur and executive have been widely recognized. She has been named one of AdAge’s Marketing Technology Trailblazers, Business Insider’s Most Powerful Women in Mobile Advertising, is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the National Association of Female Executives. Kim has been profiled by The New York Times, Forbes, CNN Money, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc Magazine, Business Insider, and The Huffington Post.
Kim has been featured on CNBC, Fox Business, MSNBC and hosted Good Morning America’s Side Hustle Showdown, a competition for aspiring entrepreneurs to win capital as well as Kid Inventors. Kim is also a regular judge for the #1 digital business show Entrepreneur Magazines Elevator Pitch.
Kim graduated magna cum laude from Pepperdine University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. An avid traveler (more than 70 countries visited), she and her husband just moved to Miami Florida, with their two sets of twins, Elle and John (6) and Jack and Bill (16 months).
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