Isa Watson

After incredibly decorated careers as a published chemist and Wall Street executive, a personal tragedy forced Isa to reconsider her career choices. She decided to become a tech entrepreneur to make an impact on a social issue important to her: digital wellness and friendships. 

Isa built Squad, a social app that makes it easy and fun for you to talk with your friends and stay in touch without the endless newsfeed and incessant flex culture we all get from social media. She is best known as the pro-mentoring, skydiving, crepe-obsessed child of immigrants who is building a new playbook for how millions of people create intentional joy with friends. Isa is one of the highest fundraising Black women in the U.S.A., having raised from some of the top investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners--and notable unicorn founders, such as the founders of Slack, Zillow, Box, StitchFix and Away to name a few. 

Life Beyond Likes is a perfect marriage of storytelling and research that shares (1) the way social media has impacted our lives, and (2) the way we can reset to joyfully live beyond the validation of likes. Also featuring interviews with Carmelo Anthony and Rebecca Minkoff, Isa is thrilled to have this book facilitate a much-needed conversation about our relationship with social media, the internet, ourselves, and each other.