Angela Smith
CEO | Yip Yap
Angela is the founder and CEO of Yip Yap, a mobile communication company that empowers parents to introduce their kids safely to mobile technology. Over a 6 year period Angela took Yip Yap from concept, to a fully custom hardware device, to a bring-your-own-device app based WiFi enabled communication platform.
Prior to Yip Yap, Angela founded and operated Ultimate SoCal Vacation Homes, delighting families with three premium vacation homes in Anaheim, CA and building the business to $450k in gross annual revenue before exiting in 2014.
Angela is a graduate of Chapman University in Orange, CA with a BA in English with an emphasis in Communication.
Angela lives in a small lake town north of Austin, TX with her husband of 16 years Michael and their four children: Lincoln, Lilah, Lucy and Lazarus.
There are some things in life that you cannot fully understand until you experience them, and I would venture to say that founding a startup is one of them. I knew it would be difficult, but I underestimated the difficulty and the depth of which the experience would penetrate my whole self and the ripple effect it would have on all aspects of my life.
In 2011 God called me out of my comfort zone and into a journey of entrepreneurship. In His wisdom and grace, He opened my eyes to a problem, gifted me an idea, and aligned the burden on our hearts to pursue a dream that would somehow glorify Him! …