The One About Green & Red Flags of Relationships With Garbo CEO Kathryn Kosmides
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Kathryn Kosmides is a longtime entrepreneur and activist who has worked with dozens of venture-backed startups to launch and scale their marketing efforts including Hotjar, Intercom, and Clari. She is now the founder and CEO of Garbo - a tech nonprofit building a new kind of online background check on a mission to proactively prevent harm in the digital age through technology, tools, and education.
To learn more about Garbo check out Garbo.io (including free quizzes to help navigate red flags, toxic relationships, gaslighting and more) or visit on IG @Garbo.io
CW: topics of conversation include assault
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.5 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.5 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, |
| 0:23.5 | get real, because we are all in this digital space together. All right, Catherine, when I was |
| 0:33.2 | reading like kind of a blur before you came on here some of like your experience and everything |
| 0:38.3 | is just there's a there's a lot you've done you've clearly niched yourself into this |
| 0:43.5 | technology realm this startup realm tell me a little bit about yourself and like how you got into it |
| 0:48.1 | before we get into the whole conversation around relationships and finding a healthy one so |
| 0:53.7 | give yourself a little, |
| 0:54.8 | a little intro for us all. Yeah, happy to. And thanks so much for having me on today. |
| 1:00.8 | So my background has always kind of been in technology and startups, early stage startups. I've been |
| 1:07.7 | employee number five at technology companies, mostly in the marketing and sales space. |
| 1:13.9 | Okay. |
| 1:14.4 | And so it was really through my own experiences that kind of Garbo and my life came to be what it is today |
| 1:21.1 | in the intersection of technology and gender-based violence. |
| 1:25.4 | So I'm a multi-time survivor of gender-based violence. |
| 1:28.8 | And it was really through a domestic violence relationship with someone I met on an online |
| 1:33.8 | dating app that really inspired my journey to make sure that what happened to me doesn't happen |
| 1:40.1 | to anyone else. So let's talk about that a little bit because when it comes to domestic violence |
| 1:47.8 | or like gender-based violence, that can kind of be like a bit of a broad spectrum. And, you know, |
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