516: Lynn Perkins, CEO & Co-Founder of UrbanSitter
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Farnoosh Torabi
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Moms and dads: Imagine a world where you can find a qualified sitter for your child in 3 minutes. That's faster than when my Uber arrives most times. Thanks to the site UrbanSitter and its co-founder Lynn Perkins, this is actually the world we live in now.
Lynn is our guest on the show today. UrbanSitter is her third start-up to date and it is a venture-backed mobile and online service that connects parents and babysitters...kind of an OpenTable for babysitters. The company has raised $23M to date and growing fast. Lynn shares:The key to convincing a room full of Silicon Valley investors (mostly male) to give you money for your babysitting app?How staying busy has helped her save money.The going rate for babysitting nowadays. You might be inspired to make this a side gig. I did it in my 20s and it was a great source of extra income (not to mention parenting 101).For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com.
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| 0:00.0 | So Money episode 516, Lynn Perkins, CEO and co-founder of UrbanSitter.com. |
| 0:07.6 | You're listening to So Money, with award-winning money guru Farnoosh Tarabi. |
| 0:14.0 | Each day get a 30 minute dose of financial inspiration |
| 0:17.0 | from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, |
| 0:20.0 | and from Farnoos herself. |
| 0:27.0 | Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons? Sorry, you're in the wrong place. |
| 0:29.0 | Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to So Money. |
| 0:34.0 | Happy New Year everyone, |
| 0:38.0 | welcome back to So Money. |
| 0:40.0 | Thank you for joining me. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to 2017, a new year, a new podcast. |
| 0:46.2 | I'll tell you a little bit about our guests in just a moment. |
| 0:48.5 | But first, I wanted to let you know about an exciting |
| 0:50.9 | Instagram campaign that I'm doing this entire month in conjunction with Mint. |
| 0:56.7 | Many of you are Mint users. |
| 0:58.0 | I've been blogging for them for the past few months. |
| 1:00.3 | It's been a lot of fun and starting January 1st. So actually yesterday we have launched a an |
| 1:07.3 | Instagram campaign called hashtag so minty. So throughout the month I'm going to be taking over Mint's Instagram handle and that's at Mint app if you're not joining them sign up join them |
| 1:18.3 | them. It'll be a lot of fun. What we're basically doing is a four week campaign dedicated to helping you all and myself make a stronger commitment to our finances, improve our financial habits, follow through on our money goals for the year. |
| 1:32.8 | You know, it's a popular time to be setting financial resolutions. |
| 1:36.4 | Every day there'll be a new post, something that I'm doing, |
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