Charlotte Lucy Hall is the co-founder of Zinc, a startup providing background screening and reference checking technology for hiring managers.
In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Lucy Hall discusses motivating a team by being vulnerable, running a startup with her significant other and why femtech is an industry to watch.
What advice would you give to a first-time founder?
Charlotte Lucy Hall: Don’t do all the big life things all at once! In 2023, my co-founder and I were raising our Series A as first-time founders, in the midst of a global economic crisis, and right in the middle of the SVB collapse. This was only professionally. On a personal level, I was pregnant with my first baby and moving house....