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Masters of Scale

How Baby2Baby stepped up as LA wildfires raged, with co-CEOs Norah Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer Patricof

Masters of Scale

WaitWhat

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Devastating wildfires tore through Los Angeles at the start of 2025. Nonprofit Baby2Baby was on the ground leveraging its deep knowledge of how to respond to natural disasters to help families in need. Co-CEOs Norah Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer Patricof joined host Jeff Berman on stage to reflect on what it was like to use everything they’d learned scaling their nonprofit to help their hometown in a moment of crisis. 

This Masters of Scale Live event, presented by Capital One Business, was recorded at Neuehouse in Los Angeles. 

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Jeff Berman here. We are gathering the leaders who are building what's next at the

0:06.5

Masters of Scale Summit. You'll see visionaries like Waymo's to Kedra Mawakana, Chabani's Hamdi

0:12.4

Ulukaya, Restaurant Tour David Chang, Patagonia's Ryan Gallert, promises Fadra Ellis

0:18.5

Lampkins, the National Women's Soccer League's Jessica Berman.

0:21.3

The list goes on and on.

0:23.7

Please join us October 7 to 9th in San Francisco.

0:26.9

The room is filling up fast, so apply now at mastersofscale.com slash apply 25.

0:33.9

That's masters of scale.com slash apply 25.

0:39.2

Hey folks, Jeff Berman here.

0:42.7

This week we're sharing my conversation with the incredibly impressive co-CEOs of the not-for-profit,

0:49.5

Baby to Baby.

0:51.1

From day one of the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles at the start of the year,

0:56.4

baby to baby was on the ground, providing essential items to families in dire need. Disaster

1:03.3

relief is just part of the support that Baby to Baby provides under Nora Weinstein and

1:08.3

Kelly Sawyer-Patrikov's leadership. In partnership with not-for-profits around the country,

1:13.0

they've now distributed more than 250 million diapers,

1:16.6

and they now serve over a million families across the United States each and every year.

1:22.7

We gathered recently for a Masters of Scale live event in Los Angeles,

1:27.0

presented by our partners at Capital One Business, to talk about how Kelly and Nora have scaled baby-to-baby and what it was like to face a disaster in their hometown.

1:40.6

You've got to have incredible talent at every position.

1:43.6

It's like this huge push. There are fires burning when you're going home. at every position it's like this huge push there are fires burning

1:46.3

when you're going home can you believe it such an idiot and then you go back to this is totally

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