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The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Fran Maier, a serial entrepreneur with three decades of experience and the founder and CEO of BabyQuip. After helping scale Match.com as its first general manager and co founder, Fran turned her attention to a new marketplace built around trust, safety, and real family needs. We talk about how BabyQuip grew from a simple vacation rental problem into a national platform, why empowering women operators matters, and how strong training drives five star experiences. Fran also shares lessons on perseverance, brand building, seasonality, and why customer love and a 90 net promoter score can define long term success.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook, I have a treat for you. Sometimes you meet entrepreneurs that
0:07.2	you know are going to be successful. When I met Fran Meyer on the set of GoFund Yourself,
0:13.3	I knew that what I was about to hear was going to change my perspective of how businesses are built.
0:21.1	The CEO and founder at Baby Quip, Fran Myers, changing the way I look at the baby business.
0:28.7	Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook, Fran.
0:32.4	David, you're very kind.
0:33.8	Thank you so much.
0:34.7	I had so much fun on the set.
0:36.3	It was great, except for my face plan.
0:39.7	Yeah, we won't talk about a quick little fall, but the way you got up and continued on
0:45.8	elevated my awareness to the perseverance that you have. You've been a serial entrepreneur
0:49.7	with over 30 years experience. You've scaled businesses. you've disrupt the B2CM, B2B
0:56.5	spaces in the internet, best known of course for Match.com, the first general manager and co-founder
1:03.9	at that hugely successful company. But you're an entirely different space. You are leading baby gear rental platform uh it's an
1:14.6	amazing business you started it on almost 10 years ago you have reshaped the landscape what were
1:21.6	some of the things early on that you saw that excited you to get into this space after having such previous success.
1:30.2	Yeah.
1:31.0	So thanks so much.
1:32.4	And I have to tell you in a lot of ways baby quit reminds me of Match.com.
1:37.8	They're both marketplaces.
1:40.3	They're both solving real problems that everyday people face.
1:46.9	And I was, I'm early in in both of them, right?
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