Amanda Hesser: Food52 Co-Founder and CEO

Second Life

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🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Amanda Hesser is responsible for the chic e-commerce and community site Food52, which she launched with co-founder Merrill Stubbs in 2009. Before she struck out on her own, the foodie had a thriving career as an editor for The New York Times and as a cookbook author, both unexpected paths seeing as the entrepreneur studied economics and finance in college. "I had no idea really what I wanted to do, but I knew the sort of lifestyle I wanted," she tells Hillary Kerr on episode 33 of Second Life. Here's how she made the leap from cooking to writing to running her own company.

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0:00.0	From MyDomain.com, this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring
0:12.4	careers.
0:13.4	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting
0:17.5	aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their second life.
0:23.2	Today, I am beyond thrilled to have a moment with Amanda Hesser, the co-founder and CEO
0:29.2	of one of my favorite sites ever, Food 52.
0:33.6	Along with her co-founder, Merrill Stubbs, Amanda presides over an empire, as Food 52 is
0:39.3	a truly groundbreaking brand that includes amazing digital content, a whole slew of cookbooks,
0:46.8	an incredible marketplace of editor curated essentials for both cooks and home enthusiasts,
0:52.4	and an audience of over 13 million people.
0:56.8	Amanda wasn't always an entrepreneur though, as you might have guessed.
1:01.6	Prior to launching Food 52 in 2009, she had a very prestigious career in newspapers, specifically
1:08.4	at the New York Times, where she worked as a food reporter and editor for over a decade.
1:13.8	She's also the author of the Essential New York Times Cookbook, which includes over
1:17.6	a thousand recipes, called the 150 Years of Paper's Best Food Journalism.
1:24.2	In short, she's crazy impressive, and I'm so, so happy to have her here.
1:30.8	And now, on Second Life, it's Amanda Hesser.
1:35.3	I think it's important to start at the beginning, so with this podcast, we always start out by
1:39.2	asking people what they studied in school and what they wanted to be when they grew up,
1:44.2	so why don't we start there?
1:48.0	I studied economics and finance in college.
1:51.8	It's very close.
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