Babylist, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 28Natalie Gordon 27
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Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
- ▶ 0:58 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a bad experience in a big box baby store led Natalie Gordon to build an alternative, a website that grew into one of the most popular registries in the country, BabyList. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:52 Natalie Gordon And then launch was the very beginning of February, 20 11, and there was a really popular discussion board for technologists that works like Reddit called Hacker News, and so I posted to Hacker News, I'm a pregnant hacker, please review my… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:47 Natalie Gordon Babyless was this really interesting thing I could think about. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Guy Raz So it's around 20 12 and BabyList is getting some traction and Natalie is getting instant feedback from users by doing all of the customer service herself. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:48 Natalie Gordon Everything's set up because they're kind of acting like you're three or four people, plus I'm literally still doing all of the customer support for BabyList, so it felt like completely overwhelming to be doing it all myself, and I had this… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:23 Natalie Gordon She really saw herself more as a co-founder than an employee, and so it came down to the amount of equity that she was being offered, and she decided not to join BabyList, and I was devastated.
- ▶ 44:10 Natalie Gordon So, yeah, BabyList was continuing to grow. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:46 Guy Raz So it's around 2016, and BabyList is branching out in new directions. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:02 Guy Raz Tell me about COVID, because, because on the one hand, I would think that, I mean, it's scary, but on the other hand, I would think that maybe this would have been a huge moment for BabyList, that all of a sudden people are at home, and… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:59 Guy Raz Vertical that you offer, and give me a sense of, of what the sort of vision of what you, what you want BabyList to be moving forward. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:55 Natalie Gordon And so, us getting you your breast pump for free, that's what we call baby list house.
- ▶ 1:02:19 Guy Raz That's Natalie Gordon, founder and CEO of BabyList. 2 times in the scene