Danielle Weisberg & Carly Zakin, Co-founders theSkimm

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week, we have not one, but two guests on Girlboss Radio - Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, the Co-founders of theSkimm! TheSkimm started a daily newsletter, giving its readers all the news and info to start the day. It's since grown into an 'audience company' that has a circulation of over 4 million active readers including fans such as Oprah and Hoda Kotb. Carly and Danielle met studying abroad together in college and several years later they both found themselves working at NBC News. They became fast friends, roommates, and eventually co-founders. On the podcast, the Sophia, Carly, and Danielle discuss how the co-founders met, how Danielle and Carly engage with their Skimmbassadors, and how they've learned to manage their growing team over the years.

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0:00.0	Hey guys and welcome to another episode of Girl Boss Radio from Panapley.
0:10.3	I know it's been a couple weeks I'm glad to be back believe it or not I have
0:14.3	pneumonia so it's been well I mean if you some of you have followed the news it's been a
0:19.6	really wild month for me it's been a wild year for me. It's been a wild year for me. Lots of change but lots of really good things too.
0:28.4	If you don't know who I am, I'm Sophia Amaruzo, the founder of Nasty Gal, the founder of Nasty Gal the founder of Girl Boss the author of Girl Boss which was a New York Times bestseller
0:44.0	And the author of Nasty Galaxy book which I released in October. That's super beautiful and you could buy anywhere books are sold.
0:47.0	We just announced the Girl Boss Rally, which is an
0:55.0	incredibly pack day full of great advice,
0:59.0	tips and tricks and stories from those of us who have been there and want to share our battle scars with you.
1:05.5	I know I have plenty.
1:07.3	You can find out more at Girl Boss.com slash rally.
1:10.9	On this podcast, I interview a different woman every week who's carved out a path for herself.
1:17.0	We trace her from her first job to how she got to where she is today to extract advice for you or listeners who are doing the same with your lives.
1:26.5	Today we have not one but two guests on Girl Boss radio today.
1:30.5	Yes, this is our first group interview. Carly's Saaken and Daniel
1:34.9	Weisburg, the co-founders of the skim. Carly and Danielle met studying abroad
1:39.7	together in college and several years later they both found themselves working both at
1:45.4	NBC News. They became fast friends, roommates, and eventually co-founders as
1:49.6	roommates the two discussed their shared passion for journalism, and realized
1:54.8	their accomplished friends on the go needed a quick accessible summary of the news
1:59.0	sent straight to their inbox. So they quit their jobs at NBC and began the skim. The company now has a
2:05.0	circulation of over 4 million active readers around the country, including Oprah and
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