Jessica Ewing
Born
Michigan
Alma materStanford University
Occupation(s)Founder and CEO Literati (book club)

Jessica Ewing is an American innovator and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of the children’s book subscription startup Literati founded in Austin, Texas.[1][2]

Early history

Jessica Ewing was born in Michigan.[3] She completed her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, where she studied mathematics and artificial intelligence.[3]  While at Stanford, she worked in the White House as a research assistant for the senior economic adviser to the president.[4]

Google

After graduating Stanford with a degree in Symbolic Systems,[5] Ewing joined Google and became a senior product manager.[3] During her first year at the company, she was Marissa Mayer’s deputy.[4] She later worked under Sundar Pichai.[6]

She co-authored eight patents while with Google.[7] Some of the patents protected inventions for: module specification for a module to be incorporated into a container document, and methods and system for sharing gadgets between users.[7]

Ewing also helped launch iGoogle, which let users customize the Google homepage.[8] Fast Company named her one of Google’s “12 Most Innovative Minds”.[9]

In 2009, Ewing left Google and moved to Hawaii to begin work on a novel.[9] 

Literati

Upon finishing her novel, Ewing began reaching out to literary agents and publishing houses but found the experience incohesive.[3] The publishing process, she thought, could be better organized.[3] To address this concern, Ewing built a platform designed to connect writers with publishers and agents.[3] This platform was called Excerpt.[3]

Throughout the process of pitching to investors, Ewing’s platform went through several different iterations.[3]  Eventually, Ewing decided to narrow her focus to children’s books, and in 2016, she founded the company called Literati.[3][10] Ewing is the CEO.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ Cronin, Mike. "Why a children's book startup is giving hazard pay during pandemic". Bizjournals. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  2. ↑ "Literati raises $40M for its book club platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lalorek (2020-01-20). "Literati Co-Founder Jessica Ewing Says She is Focused on Raising a Generation of Readers who like Print Books". SiliconHills. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  4. 1 2 Salter, Chuck (2008-02-19). "Jessica Ewing". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  5. ↑ Segran, Elizabeth (2018-11-19). "Melinda Gates, B.J. Novak, Sundar Pichai, and more share the children's books that shaped them". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  6. ↑ Stillman, Jessica (2019-10-24). "Want Your Kids to Grow Up to Love Books? This Austin-Based Startup Wants to Help". Inc.com. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  7. 1 2 "Jessica Ewing Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  8. ↑ Schmidt, Eric; Rosenberg, Jonathan (2014-09-23). How Google Works. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4555-8233-4.
  9. 1 2 "Meet Literati, Austin's Monthly Book Box for Kids". Austin Monthly Magazine. 2020-01-30. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  10. ↑ "Austin Based Startup: Literati Makes Reading Fun". KXAN Austin. 2020-01-22. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  11. ↑ Wistrom, Brent. "'Everything changed in a week': How Literati hustled in the early days of a pandemic". American Inno. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  12. ↑ Thomas, Jessica (2020-04-30). "An Exercise-Bike Company and At-Home 'Botox' Business Had Nothing in Common - Until They Did". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
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