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This is Design Matters with Debbie Milne from Design Obser.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Observer.gov.

On this program, Debbie Milman talks with Jen Billick about creating and running her company

Knock Knock, which designs, manufactures,

sells, and distributes gift products and books. I'm far from the best designer

there will ever be. I'm not the best writer that will ever be and I'm not the best business

person but I think one of the things it is special about me is my ability to combine

them.

Here's Debbie Billman. Think about the last time you went to the office supply store.

Maybe you chuckled at a checklist titled,

Why You Really, Really Deserved Candy. Or maybe you were tempted by the stamp that says

W T. F. That's the work of Jen Billick, the founder and CEO of Knock Knock.

Jen has been designing and selling cheeky, wordy, and slightly nerdy products for nearly a decade.

She started small in 2002 and these days her

unophadox operation is a multi-million dollar business that employs nearly

three dozen people.

More on that in a bit.

But for now, knock, knock.

Who's there?

It's Jen Villock.

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