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The Exit - Presented By Flippa

Katie May’s Kidspot Won Over All the Moms and Then Newscorp

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

Technology

5.0420 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we meet serial entrepreneur Katie May. Following her success as CMO at Seek, Katie founded Kidspot - a parenting advice business born from a real pain point that Katie witnessed as a new mom herself. Our conversation follows Katie’s success as Kidspot is acquired by Newscorp and Katie becomes CEO at Shipping Easy, leading yet another company towards a successful exit. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on https://flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Exit presented by Flip of the 30 minute podcast featuring amazing

0:15.1

entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it.

0:18.0

We talk to incredible operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes.

0:23.7

You'll learn how they did it, why they did it, you'll learn about their background

0:26.8

and their origin stories and get exposure to the world of acquisitions and it's a world

0:32.4

occupied by a small view, but accessible to many and before we dive into my interview

0:38.0

here with Katie, definitely be sure to check out the previous interview with Ari Horowitz

0:42.8

from Yardline Capital, very exciting interview about what they're working on with investing.

0:48.1

So definitely be sure to check that out wherever you're streaming this or listening to this.

0:52.3

On today's episode, I'm going to sit down with Katie May and she founded a company named

0:58.4

KidSpot that's fantastic. It's basically a directory helping new moms in Australia and New Zealand,

1:04.9

really a great operator and she goes through the process of talking about selling to a company

1:10.9

called NewsCorp. They acquired the company a few years back and after that, she went on to join

1:19.3

slash start a company called Shipping Easy that then sold once again to stamps.com. So two

1:26.7

huge exits and you can Google around and check more out about KidSpot and the Shipping Easy Company,

1:34.7

their fantastic businesses and Katie has extensive experience in the world of exits. So she goes

1:42.8

through her story, her background, how she started KidSpot and the whole time frame and

1:49.2

process of selling that using an investment banker. So without further ado, let's sit down with

1:55.7

Katie May on today's episode. All right, I am here with Katie May, both board member and investor.

2:04.8

How you doing today, Katie? Good. How are you doing? Doing great. Doing great. Thanks so much

2:10.5

for coming on. I'm excited to learn a little bit about your background and your story and

2:17.1

what I guess before we dive into KidSpot and things like that, let's hear your story. Let's hear

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