Darrell Cavens is founder and CEO of the Seattle-based kid and parent daily deal startup zulily. In less than five years Cavens has grown zulily from a fledgling start-up with a handful of employees into a thriving business employing more than 300 people out of headquarters in SoDo. The former Blue Nile exec defines success by, “delivering great products and being able to go to a birthday party with my daughter and say, ‘I work at zulily,’ and parents telling me, ‘I love it! I just got a pair of boots for my daughter there.’ That gets me excited.” The dad of a seven-year-old girl and five-year-old boy, Cavens clocks out at 5 p.m. Fridays for dinner out with his family. “They get to pick where,” Cavens says. “It doesn’t matter how busy we get, those Friday meals are always my number one priority.”
