Everette Taylor
Everette Taylor (born June 23, 1989) is an American entrepreneur, marketer, and public speaker. Taylor was born in Richmond, VA and grew up in the South-side part of town.
Biography
While growing up, Taylor had strong entrepreneurial interests selling candy, mowing lawns and other ventures in grade school. He took his first marketing job at 14 with Eastern National. After overcoming being homeless as a teenager, Taylor attended Virginia Tech where he took a full-time marketing job with
United Way and at the age of 19 started his first company and sold the company to a local entrepreneur 3 years later. After college, Taylor led marketing at the software company Qualaroo - a behavioral insight survey software on both the web and mobile which was acquired by Xenon Ventures. While working at Qualaroo, Taylor started GrowthHackers - an online community and a software as a service (SaaS) that enables teams to manage the growth experimentation process with well-known entrepreneur Sean Ellis and led growth for the new company.
He also partnered with NFL player Brandian Ross on the clothing line Unity Over Self to raise money for children with autism.
In 2014, Taylor founded the company MilliSense - a transformational marketing firm dedicated to growing companies and building brands through data-driven marketing. He named the company after his mother “Millicent". Taylor also became the youngest executive at the e-commerce company Sticker Mule, serving as their Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at 25 years old and helped grow the company’s revenue 50 percent.
He currently serves as CEO of the company MilliSense and leads marketing efforts for new special projects for Microsoft.
Taylor’s interests span far beyond business. He is a supporter of diversity and gender equality initiatives such as CODE2040, Wonder Women Tech, and Black Girls Code. He started his own scholarship fund to help struggling minority college students pay for tuition and books. He has also been a major supporter of the March of Dimes Foundation helping premature babies, raising thousands of dollars for the organization since 2011.
References
BE Modern Man: Meet "The CMO" Everette Taylor (Black Enterprise)
Failure Is An Option And Other Advice From Millennial Marketing Genius Everette Taylor (Forbes)
Marketing Maven Everette Taylor on the Best Strategies for Startups (Fortune Magazine)
Entrepreneur Everette Taylor Taking the Reins in Silicon Valley (The Network Journal)
Championing Change From Inside Silicon Valley (Huffington Post)
5 Tips to Successfully Grow Your Company (Inc Magazine)
Life & Business: Everette Taylor (Design Sponge)
The Simple Lessons Everette Taylor Has Learned About Being An Entrpreneur (Huffington Post)
Everette Taylor: Founder + CEO (Techies Project)
The Growth Marketer You Need To Know (Product Hunt)
Millennial Marketing Superstar Everette Taylor's Top Snapchat Tips (Buffer)
11 Entrepreneurs on Snapchat Who Are Doing It Right (Inc Magazine)
People of Color in Tech: Everette Taylor
100 Conversion Growth Tips From the CRO Experts (KlientBoost)
Growth Hacking: Top 100 Influencers & Brands (Onalytica)
VT Alumnus Offers Textbook Scholarships
10 Inspirational Growth Marketers
Making Sense of Modern Marketing: Advice from Everette Taylor (Scribble Live)
Meet The Man Who Is Changing The Way Marketing Is Done (Well Dressed Student)
Real Life Guides: 21 People Who Will Inspire You For What They Do (Guides)
14 CRO Gurus Share Favorite Optimization Tools (Moblized)
Website
Everette Taylor website www.everettetaylor.com
Twitter account: @everette (verified)