#135 Sarah Jones Simmer: The Foundation of Trust

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Jones Simmer calls on her years of experience as an advisor, investor, and top-level executive to offer a series of crucial career tips, and discuss how work helped rehabilitate her following a frightening cancer diagnosis. Simmer goes deep on scaling a business, making the right hire for your company, female-led companies, fundraising, setting boundaries, and how she learned to re-focus on the big deals in life.

Simmer is the CEO of Found, a company focused on making evidence-based, sustainable weight care for all. She joined the company in September 2021 after serving as the Chief Strategy Officer at Bumble, Inc., the parent company of the wildly popular relationship app. During her time with Bumble she was responsible for core strategy, international growth, marketing initiatives, business operations, and expanding Bumble’s rapidly growing team. She also led the investment strategy for the Bumble Fund, the company’s early-stage investing vehicle.

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0:00.0	I had this moment in our treatment journey where the doctor was worried about
0:06.2	metastasis and she said, look, worst case, I can get you five years.
0:10.6	And there's something very special about that five-year time frame.
0:16.2	You know, if you had 30 days, you would change everything.
0:20.4	And on the other side of the spectrum, all of us live right now, like we've got
0:23.5	infinity in front of us. But what if you have five years?
0:27.8	What would you do differently? You do a lot more changing on the margin.
0:32.0	And the reality is we should all be thinking that way every day.
0:36.3	You know, what are the things that I would drop if I actually only had five years?
0:39.1	What would I be so disappointed that I didn't do if I only had five years?
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1:41.6	Today, I'm speaking with Sarah Jones-Simmer. Sarah's the CEO at Found,
1:47.3	which has a mission to make evidence-based sustainable weight care accessible for all.
1:52.1	She's the former CEO of Bumble, where she was responsible for course strategy,
1:56.4	international growth, marketing initiatives, and business operations, as well as the expansion
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