Episode 20: High Risk, High Reward! theSkimm Founders Share Their Story And Goal Of Empowering Millennial Women
HerMoney with Jean Chatzky
Jean Chatzky Her Money
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an airwave media podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Her money is supported by Fidelity Investments. |
| 0:07.0 | Together we're here to... Her money is supported by Fidelity Investments. |
| 0:13.5 | Together we're here to empower, educate, and encourage women to start talking about money. |
| 0:19.0 | Discover more at fidelity.com slash its time. |
| 0:23.0 | Her money comes to you through PRX. Welcome to Her Money, it's Gene Chasky, and I am on a little field trip about three blocks over and 20 blocks down from where we usually |
| 0:46.5 | record the podcast at CDN studios. |
| 0:49.5 | We are here at the brand new skim headquarters. |
| 0:53.3 | It is decked out, as you could expect, |
| 0:56.1 | with a lot of wonderful turquoise and white |
| 1:01.2 | and it's adorable and very, cool and I understand from the founders |
| 1:06.0 | Carly Zaken and Daniel Wiesburg who are in a conference room with me that has a very |
| 1:10.7 | strange name that we will get them to explain in just a moment that |
| 1:15.7 | this is a relatively new place but let me bring you guys in thanks for having us here |
| 1:20.4 | thank you so much this is such a treat for us. |
| 1:22.8 | Oh, well, it's a treat for me because I know you guys from your childhood, your first |
| 1:30.3 | jobs out of college and NBC News. |
| 1:33.1 | Yet your previous lives, you were both NBC News producers. |
| 1:36.4 | Carly and I worked together very briefly on a show that I was doing. |
| 1:40.8 | And you set off with this goal to revolutionize the way that female millennials and some |
| 1:49.2 | males that I know very well receive their news and receive their information and you now have 3.5, is that correct, 3.5 million |
| 1:59.0 | readers? Well over. Well over. Yes. That's fabulous. Thank you. That is fabulous. You started the skim, Danielle. Let me start with you. You started the skim from your couch. We did. So as you said, Carly and I, we grew up at NBC News. We grew up dreaming of working there |
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