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Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

Gwyneth Paltrow: Leading Goop

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6538 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In a one-on-one conversation at SXSW, Gwyneth Paltrow opens up about leading her lifestyle brand Goop, becoming CEO and the life-changing journey that took her from actress to the C-Suite. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In this episode of Boss Files, one-on-one with Gwyneth Paltrow, but not as Gwyneth the famous actress, rather Gwyneth the CEO.

0:09.3

She's built Goop into a $250 million business, and it's growing a lot.

0:15.0

But she tells me she still feels like an imposter sometimes as CEO.

0:20.0

Do you still feel like an imposter as a CEO?

0:22.6

Sometimes, yeah, absolutely.

0:24.6

Why?

0:25.6

Well, I think there's just so much to learn.

0:29.6

And also, like, the provenance of, you know, how I got here, it's unusual. And I didn't, I didn't finish

0:39.8

college. I didn't, I don't have an MBA. She's faced haters and big roadblocks along the way

0:45.1

and acknowledge missteps. Today, she has her eye set on building something much bigger,

0:50.8

what she's learned from Disney and why she reached out to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

0:56.1

for advice. I said, you know, I would die for the opportunity to, like, sit down and ask you a

1:01.6

bunch of questions, and he never wrote me back. Seriously? Oh, man. No, but he's got a lot going on.

1:11.6

Jeff Bezos.

1:12.6

Gwen's call, is not like the only guy that never wrote you back?

1:16.6

No, I mean, no.

1:17.6

Um, what?

1:18.6

What do you?

1:19.6

He's busy.

1:20.6

Would you ever sell Goop to Amazon?

1:22.6

Would I sell my company to Amazon?

1:24.6

Uh, I mean, sure.

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