Ep 15: Mollie Chen
Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!
Caroline Moss
4.6 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Please welcome to the stage, Mollie Chen! Not only is she one of the co-founders of beloved Birchbox (disclosure: I LOVE BIRCHBOX), she’s also a consultant working with early stage consumer companies on brand strategy and experience. She’s very cool and she writes a great newsletter.
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Mollie is a great Instagram follow, and I am constantly getting great meal ideas from her stories because she makes the act of making breakfast look so easy. It’s fitting, then, that her product pick is a $5 kitchen tool that she swears by. She even wrote about it in her latest newsletter!
Products Mentioned On This Episode:
- Tiny tongs! https://amzn.to/2vAWXrX
- Squeeze bottles! https://amzn.to/2vF3Atl
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of Gee Thanks Just Bought It. I'm your host |
| 0:15.0 | Caroline Moss and before we get into today's episode I just want to remind you |
| 0:18.9 | that G Thanks Just Bought It is on Instagram. We talk about all the products that we discuss on the |
| 0:23.6 | podcast but also a lot of stuff we don't talk about so join us there it's gee thanks |
| 0:27.6 | just bought it pod that's gee thanks just bought it pod on Instagram. Today my guest I'm very excited about, her name is Molly |
| 0:35.5 | Chen. Molly co-founded Birchbox, the Beauty Discovery E-commerce company, and led brand, |
| 0:40.7 | content, and community there for six years. Now she's working with early stage company. and |
| 0:45.0 | led brand content and community there for six years. Now she's working with early stage companies on brand strategy and experience as well as angel investing and advising |
| 0:49.0 | and she has a great Instagram. Go follow her. |
| 0:52.0 | What's your Instagram Molly? Is it just her name? |
| 0:53.6 | At Molly Chen. |
| 0:54.4 | At Molly Chen, couldn't be easier and it's M-O-L-I-E. And yeah, Molly, welcome to do things just bought it. |
| 1:00.9 | Hi, I'm very excited. We're so happy to have you so I |
| 1:05.0 | mentioned your Instagram because I know Molly sort of tangentially through we |
| 1:10.3 | have a mutual friend in common and when I started following in Instagram I got very jealous because I was like she's so good at |
| 1:17.7 | Meals that look really good and that are not like cheeseburgers like which is the thing I'm not good at you are you a meal prepper no I |
| 1:26.3 | actually had a very long and he did like text conversation with a good friend |
| 1:30.2 | the other day about the fact that I really don't like the idea of meal |
| 1:33.5 | prepping I do like being prepared I think there's a difference okay we're just |
| 1:37.6 | joking about like Eagle Scouts I think always be prepared yeah you know have your |
| 1:40.8 | fridge and your pantry stocked with things that you can turn into a meal |
| 1:43.6 | that at a given's notice. But the idea of like laying out the week and like thinking about what I want to eat |
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