Elisa Camahort Page

MY STORY

My through-line was born from a career that can reasonably be called peripatetic.

I started as a theater kid, accidentally spent seven years in finance, then talked my way into Silicon Valley product management during the dot-com boom — the era when people hired for smarts and ambition and taught the rest.

In 2003, I became one of the earliest practitioners helping organizations decode what the social web meant for them and their businesses, and in 2005 I co-founded BlogHer with Lisa Stone and Jory Des Jardins. BlogHer ushered in the Creator Economy for countless women. BlogHer was bootstrapped for two years before raising four funds of VC funding, scaled to roughly $30M in annual revenue and events with 5,000 attendees before being acquired in 2014.

I went on to serve as Chief Community Officer of SHE Media, co-author Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All (Ten Speed Press, 2018), take C-Level roles in early stage start-ups, and co-found a passion project called Optionality. Along the way, I have shared hard-won insights into building community, surviving entrepreneurship, mastering social technologies, and operationalizing values into culture at venues from the Commonwealth Club to TEDx to the 92nd Street Y. And at companies like Google, LinkedIn, GoDaddy, and Coca-Cola.

Today I vibe-product-manage my own AI-powered tools into existence — I build daily, because the best way to learn a new technology has always been to use it yourself — and teach others to do the same.

My thesis: AI's real value is self-actualization, not self-replacement; enrichment, not efficiency. Defining how we facilitate human growth should come before dictating AI augmentation.

Everything about my journey to this point has proved to me that I can learn, at any age or career stage, and so can you. (In fact, here’s a tip: You're much more likely to figure out you don't like doing something, than to discover you're incapable of learning it.)

They might be non-traditional labels, and don’t reflect a job title, but I’m proudly a Thinker, Tinkerer, and Creator, and I’m happy to share the fruits of those labors with you here.

Some links to know me by:

Find my social links, plus links to my book and recent appearances and writings here:
https://bio.site/ElisaCP

Testimonials:

“Elisa's combination of operational brain, creative mind, and empathetic heart is what makes her a great leader, advisor, and consultant. Having known and worked with Elisa for more than a decade in various incarnations, she is my go-to expert on community, research, events, and more.”

-Gina Garrubbo, President and CEO National Public Media

“Weeks after her visit, people are still buzzing about Elisa’s talk. Her expertise, passion and charisma all came shining through. She offered data-driven insights and practical, solution-focused ideas. Audience members were impressed with her intellect, clarity and honesty.”

-Olivia Shen Green, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Logitech