Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced, Wimbledon changes its dress code, and WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani has a plan for how to pivot. Have a productive Monday.
- Ready to pivot. Sima Sistani is known in Silicon Valley as the founder of the pandemic-favorite social video app Houseparty. After Epic Games acquired her business in 2019, she took on an executive role at the gaming company before assuming the CEO post at WeightWatchers in March.
Going from gaming to an almost 60-year-old weight loss platform might seem like an odd pivot. But Sistani says she accepted the role to help WeightWatchers bring its traditional in-person communities online. The community aspect has always been at the forefront of the WeightWatchers experience, she says, but the app-based version of the program focuses on counting points and less on connection. "The throughline of all these experiences is digitizing social connection," Sistani told me last week at Fortune Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit, her first live interview since stepping into the CEO job.
