From Pixar to people: How Katelin Holloway’s career shift to building scalable, inclusive institutional cultures.

Katelin Holloway is a senior people and culture executive and leader who brings a career-long passion for building scalable, inclusive institutional cultures to early stage and VC-backed companies, including Klout, Reddit and Initialized Partners. By using both quantitative and qualitative measurements to better understand how talent and culture can drive business results, she has helped push “HR” out of the back-office and into the boardroom. She is currently a partner at Initialized Capital where she gives guidance to over 300 portfolio’s companies. During her early profession life Katelin worked at Pixar Animation Studios in in Postproduction, Production, and Story on 17 different feature length and short films, including Ratatouille, Cars, Wall-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Cars 2, and Ponyo. She is also an Advisor on people and culture for multiple nonprofit organizations including Lattice, Mother Honestly, PeopleTech Partners, and Refresh Body. Lastly, she is well known for leading a comprehensive cultural turnaround at social news aggregator Reddit during a massive PR, recruiting, and retention crisis.