E77: 5TH GENERATION ENTREPRENEUR

HANDS AND DAYLIGHT

Peter Roberts

History, Business

5.0 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The only thing Lindsay Skilling knew as a kid was that she wanted to work for the family business. Her great, great grandfather delivered milk and ice cream by horse and buggy throughout the foothills of Western Maine. Today she runs world famous Gifford's Ice Cream. A mother of two, and five generations later, 35 year old CEO Lindsay Skilling shares stories of the past, culture, family and waking up at 3:40 in the morning.

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0:00.0	Lindsey, you're a fifth generation entrepreneur.
0:03.1	You have two kids at home, a husband.
0:06.0	Yeah.
0:06.3	Live an hour and a half away.
0:07.5	Yes.
0:08.0	Running a company.
0:08.9	Yes.
0:09.8	You get up at 350 in the morning.
0:11.9	Yes.
0:12.9	I do.
0:14.5	Because you give a shit.
0:16.1	Yeah.
0:16.8	Because you represent something.
0:18.3	Yeah.
0:19.0	Thanks.
0:19.6	I appreciate that.
0:20.3	That's awesome.
0:21.0	No, I mean, you know what?
0:21.8	People think like, oh, you know, it's, you know, being an entrepreneur, it's just, and you're
0:27.8	successful and then you get to do whatever you want.
0:29.4	You get up at $3.50 in the freaking morning.
0:31.3	Right.
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