‘Nothing More Powerful’: How to Transform Companies From Within as an ‘Intrapreneur,’ According to a Microsoft Office and Yahoo! Shopping Cofounder
Entrepreneurship is starting a company. Intrapreneurship is transforming a business from within as an employee.
Elizabeth Funk is familiar with both paths. As an early employee at Yahoo! and Microsoft, Funk helped pioneer services like Yahoo Shopping and Microsoft Word. After thinking online shopping would be a cool feature, she pitched and wrote the first code for Yahoo Shopping herself. She was also a product manager on the early team for Microsoft Word and part of the original founding team that created Microsoft Office.