BONUS EPISODE with Kaylin Marcotte, founder and CEO of JIGGY

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to a special bonus episode of Skimm’d from the Couch with a focus on small businesses. We’re talking to small business founder and CEO Kaylin Marcotte, who turned her nightly routine of puzzling into a business, JIGGY. And she was also employee number one at theSkimm. In this episode, Kaylin tells us how she turned her idea from a hobby into a business, what it’s like to become the boss, and why it’s important to prioritize your time as a first-time founder.

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0:00.0	I'm Danielle Weisberk.
0:02.0	I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:04.0	Welcome to Skim from the Couch.
0:06.0	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:09.0	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.
0:12.0	To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary. stuff like
0:13.7	negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:17.8	We started the skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where
0:21.9	it began on a couch.
0:24.0	Hey everyone, this show might sound a bit different today because we're skimming from three different
0:34.6	couches.
0:35.6	The skim is working from home for the time being because of COVID-19.
0:39.8	Welcome to a special bonus episode of Skimmed from the Couch.
0:43.2	We have a small business founder with us, Kaylin Markote, who is the founder and CEO of Jiggi
0:50.2	Puzzles, but she was also our first employee here at the skim so we are so so excited
0:55.7	for this very special episode today. Kalin it is great to talk to you about
1:01.2	everything including jiggi we are so proud of you. Thank you
1:05.3	guys. I'm so happy to be here. It is certainly surreal but very excited to be talking.
1:11.2	Just to kind of level step before we jump in.
1:14.0	So we started this game in 2012.
1:16.4	We took in our first round of funding
1:18.4	in the end of 2013.
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