Susan Lyne, President and Founder of BBG Ventures: “Don’t say yes or no in the room.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Susan Lyne’s career isn’t easy to Skimm. She grew up in Boston, and after going to college for a while, decided to skip school and get straight into her career. Susan was a journalist. Then she switched into entertainment, and even started her own magazine. Since then, she’s been an exec at major companies like Gilt, AOL, Martha Stewart, and ABC. Meaning, yes, you can thank her for “Grey’s Anatomy.” In 2014, Susan made another change: she started her own venture capital firm to invest in companies with female founders. It’s called BBG – Built By Girls. On the couch, she talks to us about networking (cough, stalking) your way to the career you want, prioritizing your time, and why introverts make great leaders.

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0:00.0	I'm Danielle Weisberg and I'm Carly Zaykin and we are the co-founder of the Skim.
0:06.4	And you are listening to our podcast, Skimmed from the couch where we talk to other female
0:10.9	entrepreneurs about what it takes to get to the top and what it's actually
0:14.6	like along the way.
0:16.4	We're talking bad advice, the really bad days, management mistakes, the real stuff.
0:22.7	No BS.
0:23.8	We started the skim from a couch,
0:25.3	so what better place to talk it out
0:27.0	than where it all began, which is a couch,
0:29.4	which is what we're setting them.
0:30.3	We're on it.
0:30.4	We're on it. Join us in welcoming Susan Line to the couch.
0:36.0	This is a big deal to us.
0:38.0	We love Susan.
0:40.0	Her career is not easy to skim, but we're going to try.
0:44.0	Susan grew up in Boston, and after going to UC Berkeley for a little while,
0:48.0	decided to skip college and get straight into her career instead.
0:51.0	She started out as a journalist in San Francisco and then she made the
0:54.9	switch into entertainment. She wrote for the iconic newspaper The Village Voice and later she
1:00.0	founded her own magazine. She's been an exec at major companies like the
1:04.3	Walt Disney Company, Martha Stewart, and ABC. Yes, she is the one that I blame all
1:10.1	the time for my Gray's anatomy addiction.
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