Shan-Lyn Ma, founder and CEO of Zola: "I've always known that I would love to start my own company at some point."

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Our guest this week is Shan-Lyn Ma. She started her company Zola in 2013, after she realized that buying wedding gifts is fun for...pretty much nobody. Flash forward to now, and hundreds of thousands of people use Zola to register and shop for wedding gifts every year. On the couch, Shan-Lyn talks to us about building her team, not taking no for an answer, and convincing male investors to take Zola seriously.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Carly Zagan.
0:03.6	And I'm Danielle Weisberg, and we're the co-founders of The Skim.
0:07.2	Welcome to our podcast, Skimmed From the Couch.
0:10.0	On every episode, we invite smart, inspiring successful women to chat candidly about what
0:15.2	it takes to get to the top and then what it's like when you actually get there.
0:19.1	So this is a podcast about the real stuff, the crappy days, the bad advice, the first big career win, and the people
0:24.6	who are there for the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.
0:28.2	We started the skim from a couch, and we have only one
0:36.0	join us in welcoming our guest Shan Lynn Ma she is the founder and CEO of Zola
0:39.0	the wedding registry company she started in 2013
0:42.0	after leaving a job a guilt group.
0:44.0	Sola has been used by over 300,000 couples, and I think all of my friends are part of that.
0:49.6	I've definitely spent a lot of money on your site.
0:52.4	The company's reinventing the wedding
0:54.2	registry industry for modern brides but that's only part of the reason why we
0:58.3	wanted her to come chat with us on the couch today. The other is to talk about the
1:02.2	real stuff. What's behind her success story? So let's get down to business.
1:06.0	Shan, welcome to the couch.
1:08.0	Thank you for having me. We're really excited to have you here.
1:12.0	We want to jump right in. I think one thing that we always
1:17.2	think about when we kind of look back in our story of starting the skim is that we always
1:21.6	say that the company was inspired from our
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