California

Lisa Padilla is the CEO of a marketing agency in Silicon Valley, co-founder of Grabbit.net, and editor and host of Lisacast.com, a media and technology show. She has spent most of her career with technology companies or showing other companies how to use technology.

Born in San Francisco and raised in Marin, she has always been surrounded by open-minded people unafraid to be different, try new things, and fail sometimes. Lisa has taken on the largest brands, the most finicky clients, with the high expectations of taking ideas and turning them into businesses.

In doing so, she’s learned that power wielded just for the sake of power is wasted energy, and so to find meaning in the projects we take on, the work we do in our lives is the ultimate goal, even if it means wholesale changes to the friends and colleagues you are with today.

The things that are meaningful to her are cultural behavior, the adoption and exposure to technology, to other cultures, and what it means to the world, not just Silicon Valley. She writes for We Blog the World because she wants to share in the story-telling of adaptation of cultures, real stories based on real things. As she says: “Knowledge is shared, truth reigns, and we can all evolve together”.