Amanda Hesser, CEO of Food52: “When push comes to shove... skillset doesn’t matter. It’s the trust in the relationship.”

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

If you’re looking for some dinner inspiration, look no further than Food52. And this week, we sat down with its co-founder and CEO, Amanda Hesser. She’s had some of our dream jobs, including apprenticing in kitchens across Europe and writing about food for The New York Times. In this episode, she reveals how she turned her passion for cooking and writing into a company. Episode highlights: Amanda shares how she learned to trust her gut (8:57), why she struggled in corporate environments (11:34), and how she acts on feedback from the Food52 community (22:40).

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0:00.0	When push comes to shove in the sort of day to day of running your company and growing your company and I'm guessing you guys are going to agree
0:07.3	There's tough situations the skill set doesn't matter. It's the trust in the relationship
0:15.0	I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:16.0	Welcome to Skim from the couch.
0:18.0	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice
0:20.0	from women who have lived it.
0:21.0	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team to the rough stuff like
0:25.6	negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback. We started the skim
0:30.5	from a couch so what better place to talk it all out than where it began on a couch?
0:37.0	Today Amanda Haser joins us on Skimmed from the Couch.
0:44.6	Amanda is the CEO and co-founder of Food 52, an online hub of content and commerce for
0:51.4	cooking and home enthusiasts.
0:53.4	Since it started in 2009, Food 52 now reaches over 15 million people each month.
1:00.0	Before starting her own business, Amanda was a writer and editor at the New York Times for over a decade.
1:05.8	She has authored multiple best-selling cookbooks and she's also played herself in a Nora Ephron movie.
1:12.4	That is so cool. We'll get into all of this.
1:14.8	Amanda, welcome to Skim from the couch.
1:17.1	Hi, thank you. Thanks for having me. We are so excited to talk to you. So first, let's just
1:21.7	jump into it. Can you just skim your resume for us?
1:24.0	Sure. You ready for a wild ride? Yeah. So after college I moved first to Germany
1:32.0	where I worked in a bakery, then I moved to Switzerland, I also
1:36.2	worked in a bakery, then I went to Rome and then I moved to France and then I moved back
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