Good morning, Broadsheet readers! A Florida bill could ban girls from discussing their periods at school, the SVB crisis turned one founder into a social media star, and Fortune senior editor Claire Zillman shares a new story that digs into Chief, the women's networking startup worth $1.1 billion. Have a productive Monday.
- Inside Chief. You would think that launching a women's network shortly before COVID hit would have doomed the venture; we were barely leaving our homes, let alone schmoozing with strangers. But Chief, the exclusive, $5,800-per-year-and-up networking club for female executives, defied that conventional wisdom. Since launching in 2019, it's grown to 20,000 members, amassed a waiting list of 60,000, and earned a valuation of $1.1 billion from backers like Alphabet's VC fund CapitalG.
In a new story for Fortune, contributor Katherine Dunn digs into Chief's pandemic-era success and some of the growing pains members claim it's experiencing as it scales. (Editor's note: Fortune offers its own membership groups for executives, including one for women.)
