LIVE with Kathleen King, founder of Tate’s Bake Shop: “Anger, bitterness, as you go on in life, you realize they're choices.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We’re obsessed with Tate’s Bake Shop cookies at Skimm HQ. So we were thrilled to speak to its founder, Kathleen King, on this week’s episode. Tune in to hear how she built her cookie empire, and why the road to her success wasn’t always so sweet. In this special live episode, King tell us about what she learned from her family’s farm (2:18), how to build an effective team (31:55), and shares how her success was born from failure (14:30). This episode was recorded at theSkimm’s Celebrate Smarter pop-up in New York City. Shop in-store or online.

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0:00.0	anger, bitterness, all those things.
0:03.0	As you go on in life you realize,
0:05.0	their choices.
0:06.0	It's your choice to hang on to it.
0:07.0	I'm Carly Zaken.
0:10.0	I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:11.0	Welcome to Skim from the Couch.
0:13.0	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:16.6	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.
0:19.3	To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:24.8	We started the skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where it began
0:29.6	on a couch? ouch. So in today's special live episode, we are excited to have Kathleen King, the founder of Tate's Bake Shop with us in our
0:45.0	Celebrate Smarter Pop Up in New York City.
0:48.0	Kathleen has been a lifelong baker who amassed a cult cookie following with her Tate's chocolate chip
0:54.6	cookies that she started baking on Long Island. She has a lot in common with
0:59.6	Carly who has been a lifelong cookie eater.
1:03.0	Now it's safe to say Kathleen created a cookie empire.
1:08.0	And in 2018, Tate was sold to Mondalee's International for $500 million.
1:14.4	However, yeah.
1:17.5	However, the road to business and baking success
1:19.9	was not always so sweet.
1:22.4	Had to.
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