About me
Gina Bianchini is the CEO & founder of Mighty Networks, a digital business platform that
powers profitable memberships, successful online courses, challenges, events, and more
through technology it calls people magic.
People magic is advanced technology and, yes, AI that connects the mostrelevant and
interesting people to each other—making digital businesses extraordinarily more engaging.
In turn, with people magic, Mighty’s been able to generate nearly $500M forthe creators,
entrepreneurs, and brands it powers today.
Mighty Networks and people magic is trusted by TED to Tony Robbins, Mindbody, Mel
Robbins, Marie Forleo, Matthew Hussey, Jim Kwik, BODi, Inc., and more.
She has been on the cover of Fast Company and Fortune, as well as featured in the Wall
Street Journal, Wired, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, and The New York Times. She has also
appeared on Charlie Rose, CNBC, and CNN.
She’s the author of the 2022 Wall Street Journal best selling book, Purpose: Design a
Community & Change Your Life.
Priorto Mighty Networks, she was the CEO and co-founder of Ning, a pioneering global
platform for creating niche social networks she started with Marc Andreessen in 2004.
Under herleadership, Ning grew to ~100 million active users across 300,000 social
networks led by brands and creators across subcultures, professional networks,
entertainment, politics, and education.
Gina also serves as a board director of TEGNA (NYSE: TGNA), a $2.6 billion dollar broadcast
and digital media company, and served as a board director of Scripps Networks (NASDAQ:
SNI), a $14.6 billion dollar public company owner of HGTV, The Food Network, and The
Travel Channel purchased by Discovery Communications in 2018.
She grew up in Cupertino, California, graduated with honors from Stanford University,
started her careerin the nascent High Technology Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and
received her M.B.A from Stanford Business School.
