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Zain Jaffer is a former Silicon Valley founder who co-founded the tech startup Vungle, which helped revolutionize the mobile app advertising industry. He runs Zain Ventures, a family office with a diverse investment portfolio in real estate, startup companies, and other assets. Outside his business pursuits, Jaffer is active in philanthropic initiatives through his non-profit, the Zain Jaffer Foundation. The Foundation aims to maximize Zain's platform to provide impactful support for deserving causes and bring about lasting change towards solving the biggest social issues of our time.
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While some challenges may seem insurmountable, there are always steps you can take to get on the right track. With an uncertain economy and various social and political changes, many businesses have been facing incredibly challenging times. While some have been forced to shut down, others have managed to survive by making difficult operational decisions or pivoting in a new direction. But, even in the most ideal times, challenges are never too far away from an entrepreneur. Whether it’s trouble with financing, unmet audience expectations, managing employees who rely on you, or even just your own mental health as the leader who has to cope with these challenges, being a business leader means you’ll likely face some sort of obstacle during your career. The key is knowing how to overcome it. As leaders themselves, the members of Rolling Stone Culture Council have faced their own trials and tribulations over the years and have learned lessons along the way that have helped them get back on their feet. Below, they share how they've navigated through tough times and failure in business, and what other struggling leaders can learn from their example.
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Is your audience excited about what your company is doing? When it comes to planning an event or product launch, there are a lot of moving parts. Logistics around planning the occasion itself, getting the word out and ensuring you have all the resources you need for it to go smoothly can be a complex puzzle to solve — but one of the most important aspects of planning is getting people excited. Building “hype” around your big event or announcement is key to generating customer interest and buy-in for what you’re offering. Without it, you may not achieve the end result you were after. Building excitement isn’t always easy, so to help, the members of Rolling Stone Culture Council offer 10 of their best tips — including insights into what’s worked well for them — for generating hype around a company event, product launch, piece of news and more below.
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Jan 24, 2025
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Here's how to manage stress and burnout even when you're thriving. Success in business often comes at a cost to the people who achieve it. Long hours, high stakes and relentless pressure can take a toll on even the most driven entrepreneurs and leaders. Because burnout and stress can significantly impact decision-making, team dynamics and the future of your business, it's important to proactively address these feelings and manage them effectively. To help you do this, the members of Rolling Stone Culture Council share their tried-and-true tips for dealing with the stress that can come with success.
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Making a few small changes can have a big impact on employee happiness overall. With employee retention at the forefront of many leaders’ minds this year, finding ways to ensure their teams are happy, healthy and heard is likely on the top of their to-do lists for 2025. One of the most effective ways to improve employee retention is to create a better work environment for them to thrive in. Whether that means better lines of communication, increased flexibility or a more supportive atmosphere, there are a multitude of ways to create a space where employees want to work. As business leaders themselves, the members of Rolling Stone Culture Council have cultivated work environments all their own, and below, they discuss what’s worked well for them as well as ways any business leader can create a better environment for their employees in the new year.
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Dec 20, 2024
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Zain Jaffer Foundation
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The Zain Jaffer Foundation is a non-profit founded to amplify those problems still unsolved—climate change, poverty, exploitation, discrimination—and accelerate our global progress. The foundation seeks to support important and imperative film and documentary programs that tackle urgent global issues for a worldwide audience. Through funding and mentorship, the foundation is designed to bring more of those projects to the big screen. Supporting a diverse array of initiatives, most of the funding is concentrated on projects addressing serious environmental and social challenges around the world, many of which have only increased in their urgency throughout the pandemic-era. A picture is supposedly worth a thousand words; empowering frontier directors, film crews, and documentary projects is our attempt to get those pictures out to the world.