Take Control Amid the Chaos, Says Alum

“Chaos and change do create huge opportunities,” said Lindsay LoBue ‘96 to nearly 50 attendees of the Shea Center’s now-virtual Lunch with an Entrepreneur on April 1. LoBue, advisory director at Goldman Sachs and founder of Greenback Labs, was a week away from putting significant capital into a new venture when markets collapsed last month. Hardly deterred, LoBue says companies should take control amidst the chaos and adapt accordingly. For instance, her first startup, Greenback Labs, uses interactive media to teach kids financial literacy. As social distancing pushes schools to embrace online learning, LoBue predicts that the red tape she faced trying to bring those tools into schools will disappear. “We are just not going back to the way it was. And there are opportunities to leverage that.”