If you’ve sat on a corporate board, you already know just how painful even the most crucial board meetings can feel. During this episode, Robert Wolfe joins us to share his story of founding a company that not only promises to make board governance more efficient and effective but also to solve the overall problem of boredom in the boardroom. After building a background in entrepreneurship and advising boards in their processes, Wolfe and Edward Norton co-founded Zeck, a cloud-based software ...

Bite-Sized Business Law

The Corporate Law Center at Fordham University School of Law

What the Zeck Should We Do About Boredom in the Boardroom?

NOV 19, 202425 MIN
Bite-Sized Business Law

What the Zeck Should We Do About Boredom in the Boardroom?

NOV 19, 202425 MIN

Description

If you’ve sat on a corporate board, you already know just how painful even the most crucial board meetings can feel. During this episode, Robert Wolfe joins us to share his story of founding a company that not only promises to make board governance more efficient and effective but also to solve the overall problem of boredom in the boardroom. After building a background in entrepreneurship and advising boards in their processes, Wolfe and Edward Norton co-founded Zeck, a cloud-based software platform that is transforming board meetings as we know them. A start-up that empowers board members to engage meaningfully with necessary content, Zeck is reimagining board engagement in step with modern media. Learn about Robert’s motivation for fixing the board meeting, his insights on how Zeck can support board minuting and analytics, and everything the interface provides to create efficiencies. Join us today to hear all this and more.


Key Points From This Episode:

  • Welcome to Robert Wolfe, co-founder of Zeck: a cloud-based software platform transforming board meetings. 
  • An introduction to his work leading up to creating his startup: Moosejaw, Crowdrise, and more. 
  • The story of how his company was founded out of his own need. 
  • How Zeck is transforming the entire board meeting process.
  • What the ultimate goal of the startup is and how it empowers board members. 
  • How Zeck is applying content to a new space. 
  • Robert’s partner: Edward Norton, with whom he also founded CrowdRise. 
  • Board minuting practice for shareholders and more.
  • Everything that Zeck provides in order to create efficiencies.
  • Why Robert advocates for having a board. 
  • His understanding of compliance and how he ended up providing the platform for the Boston Marathon and more.
  • Why he maintains an unwavering belief in getting together in person.
  • The throughline of the companies that he has founded. 
  • How Robert is revolutionizing corporate governance. 


Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Robert Wolfe on LinkedIn
Zeck

Yahoo! Finance on Zeck

Fordham University School of Law Corporate Law Center