Christie Hefner: Former CEO and Chairman of Playboy Enterprises

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Christie Hefner is the daughter of, you guessed it, Hugh Hefner. She spent 20 years as chairman and CEO of Playboy. Making her the longest-serving female in that position. Ever. This week, she talks to us about taking Playboy digital, making management decisions, and getting over imposter syndrome – all while working alongside her dad.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Carly Zagan.
0:03.6	And I'm Danielle Weisberg, and we're the co-founders of The Skim.
0:07.2	Welcome to our podcast, Skimmed From the Couch.
0:10.0	On every episode we invite smart, inspiring successful women to chat candidly about what it takes to get to the top and then what it's like when you actually get there.
0:18.8	So this is a podcast about the real stuff, the crappy days, the bad advice, the first big career win, and the people
0:24.6	who are there for the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.
0:28.2	We started the skim from a couch, and we have only one rule on this one, no BS.
0:33.0	Our guest this week is Christy Hefner.
0:36.0	She is the daughter of, you guessed it, Hugh Hefner, the late editor-in-chief of Playboy.
0:41.0	And she's got an impressive legacy of her own. She's spent 30 years of her
0:45.4	career at Playboy, 20 of those as chairman and CEO. That makes her the
0:49.9	longest serving female chairman and CEO of any public company ever.
0:54.0	She took Playboy magazine Digital and under her leadership the company's
0:58.2	value topped $1 billion.
1:00.8	Since stepping down from Playboy in 2009, she has been focusing on
1:04.2	charity work and civic issues. Please welcome to the couch,
1:07.7	Christie Hefner. Thank you.
1:10.4	Hi, Christie. I am so excited to do this interview with you.
1:15.1	So first of all, we talk about the startup life.
1:17.7	We are so in the moment of startup life right now.
1:21.0	Danielle is stuck in traffic because New York City has terrible traffic.
1:25.7	She is on the West Side Highway.
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