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On this episode of The Kara Goldin Show, I'm joined by Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of theSkimm—the powerhouse digital media brand giving women the tools to navigate life's most important decisions. What began as a single daily email has evolved into a platform reaching over 16 million people, delivering smart, nonpartisan content on everything from politics to personal finance.In our conversation, Carly and Danielle share how they've grown theSkimm from a newsletter launched from their couch into a trusted media company, how they lead as co-CEOs, and why their mission to empower women through information has never been more important. We dive into the evolution of their business model, how they stay relevant in a constantly shifting media landscape, and the hard lessons learned over a decade of building together.Whether you're thinking about launching something bold, leading with a mission, or curious about how to build lasting connection with your audience—this episode is full of insights you won't want to miss. Now on The Kara Goldin Show. Are you interested in sponsoring and advertising on The Kara Goldin Show, which is now in the Top 1% of Entrepreneur podcasts in the world? Let me know by contacting me at karagoldin@gmail.com. You can also find me @KaraGoldin on all networks. To learn more about Carly Zakin, Danielle Weisberg, and theSkimm:https://www.instagram.com/carlyanddanielle/https://www.instagram.com/theskimm/https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-weisberg-3192538/https://www.linkedin.com/company/theskimmhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/carly-zakin-69942aa/https://www.theskimm.com/ Sponsored By:OpenPhone - Streamline and scale your customer communications with OpenPhone. Get 20% off your first 6 months at openphone.comACORNS. Head to acorns.com/KARA or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today!Ka'Chava - Go to Kachava.com and use code KARAG for 15% off your next order.Range Rover Sport - The Range Rover Sport is your perfect ride. Visit RangeRover.com/us/Sport and check it out. Check out our website to view this episode's show notes: https://karagoldin.com/podcast/702
Trump orders 1,500 active duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. Plus, the CEO defending Trump's tariff plans. And, after Trump's inauguration, a government website providing information on reproductive health is shut down. The founders of 'The Skimm' discuss how they're ensuring those same resources are still available. David Jolly, Philip Bump, Max Chafkin, Dylan Ratigan, Danielle Weisberg, and Carly Zakin join The 11th Hour this Wednesday.
For the past two years, at the end of every interview, I asked every guest to tell me their favorite piece of life advice. We took dozens of our favorite clips and brought them together in this very special episode. And we also hear from Connecticut Public employees! Email your favorite piece of advice: Audacious@ctpublic.org Suggested episode: Views from the end: David Meyers GUESTS (in order of appearance): First segment: Paul Gladis, AJ Wolfe, Christine Hazel Decker, Cynthia Zhou, Danielle Weisberg, Jonathan Goodwin, Kitao Sakurai, Mary Elizabeth Kelly, Stephanie Courtney aka Flo from Progressive, The Lim Family, William Harder, Lior Ofir, Martha Underwood, David Vance, Greg Viloria, Kristen Geez, Jessica Jin Second segment: Bianca L McGraw, Dean Edwards, Adriana Piltz, Dani Rabaiotti, Danielle Perez, Dr. Richard Gibson, Eve Wiley, Jayson Greene, Dr. Marc Feldman, Florence Early, LaNia Roberts, Luis Mojica, Robbie Romu, Anna Holland, Arianna Preuss, Carrie Cariello, Dawn Shaw, Katie Charter, Natasha Fischer, Rozy, Zarna Garg, Arwen, Aidan, and Willow Gladis Perez-Sauquillo, Cash Daniels, Gus Mcafoos, Samirah Horton, aka DJ Annie Red Third segment: Caryn Toriaga, Chris Massimine, Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, Guy and Yaruh First, Julie Millsap, Megan Peabody, Mehdi Hasan, Azie Dungey, Colin Nissan, Paul Marcarelli, Stacy Samuels aka Banjo Man, Tabitha Farrar, Neil Harbisson, Jada Star, Athena Walker, Timothy Schultz, Tony Cicoria, Kenley Byrd, John Graham, Jenn Carson, David Meyers, Blyss, Bruce W Brackett, Moon Ribas, Paperboy Love Prince, Jessica Severin de Martinez, Meg Fitzgerald, Robyn Doyon-Aitken, Meg Dalton, Vanessa de la Torre, Mark Contreras Support the show: https://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rugrats: "What the Big People Do" TV writer Danielle Weisberg (The Simpsons, Krapopolis) joins us for one of the tentpole 90s Nicktoons from animation behemoth Klasky-Csupo, and its strange and scary imaginary tale about an adulthood with baby heads on adult bodies. We talk about Danielle's trajectory from being a Batman stand-in on Conan to writing award-nominated animated sitcom episodes, along with the artistry of Rugrats, Nickelodeon's grunge and edge, how this episode reflects real-life infantilization in the workplace, and more! Find more from Danielle: Website | Twitter: @danielleweisber | Instagram: @danielleweisberg A proud part of The Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective Tip us on Ko-Fi | Gimmicks Website Email: gimmickspodcast@gmail.com | Twitter: @gimmickspod | Instagram: @gimmickspod Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Sources: Saberspark's “What Ruined Klasky Csupo” video | 1998 New Yorker article | Patricia Marx Story Corp episode
Tune in to the latest episode of the Cool Mom Code Podcast, hosted by Lizzy Mathis, where we sit down with Danielle Weisberg, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of theSkimm and a cool mama of two! In this insightful episode, Lizzy and Danielle dive into what it's like having two pandemic babies, the unique bond Danielle shares with her business partner Carly, and the dynamics of working with your best friend. Danielle opens up about the unexpected challenges of motherhood, her struggles with conception, and the importance of not being solely dependent on your partner. They discuss the reality that you can do it all, just not all at once, and how women often become the default caregivers. Danielle also shares her experience with loss while trying to conceive, the support of her village, and the impactful Show Us Your Leave movement. Learn how theSkimm stays committed to informing the community with truth and how they mobilized over 2 million women to vote. Don't miss this candid conversation filled with inspiration and real talk about motherhood, entrepreneurship, and everything in between. Welcome to The Cool Mom Code Podcast, where motherhood is your keycard to the coolest spot in town! Make sure to subscribe, rate, review and follow us on Instagram: @thecoolmomcodepodcast @thecoolmomco @lizzymathis Watch this episode in full on Lizzy's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16OsVdIMwSc4ziMlwZHM33-9Ve5a3hiX Follow Danielle Weisberg & theSkimm on Instagram: @dmweisberg @theskimm More from theSkimm: https://www.theskimm.com Check out The Cool Mom Co. Website: https://thecoolmom.co Shop all Cool Mom Co. Merch: https://shopthecoolmom.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Carly Zakin and Danielle Wesberg, entrepreneurs behind The Skimm, discuss creating a successful Media company. Danielle and Carly fresh out of college identified a significant gap in the media landscape, there was a lack of media outlets specifically tailored to Women. Despite Women making upwards of 90% of household financial decisions, there was a lack of content that catered to their perspectives and priorities. Join us as Carly and Danielle take us through the creation of their revolutionary company, The Skimm. This episode is presented by Slack. Learn more at slack.com
Carly Zakin and Danielle Wesberg, entrepreneurs behind The Skimm, discuss creating a successful Media company. Danielle and Carly fresh out of college identified a significant gap in the media landscape, there was a lack of media outlets specifically tailored to Women. Despite Women making upwards of 90% of household financial decisions, there was a lack of content that catered to their perspectives and priorities. Join us as Carly and Danielle take us through the creation of their revolutionary company, The Skimm. This episode is presented by Slack. Learn more at
Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin co-founded theSkimm in 2012, a digital media company dedicated to giving women the information they need to navigate life's most important decisions. Since hitting send on the first Daily Skimm email over a decade ago, they have cultivated a trusted community that reaches more than 12 million women. As their audience has matured, so has theSkimm, evolving beyond a singular newsletter into an award-winning ecosystem that includes dedicated newsletters in money, wellness, parenting, and shopping, a career podcast, an in-house creative agency, and a commerce arm that performs at 3x the industry standard.Danielle and Carly both grew up with a love for journalism and storytelling. The two met after a summer spent studying abroad in Rome and reconnected after graduation while working in New York City, where they eventually became roommates trying to make it in the media industry. Both news junkies at heart, they quickly realized there was an opportunity to change the way media was consumed and created an outlet that provided its audience with bite-sized and easily digestible news. With $4,000 between the both of them, they decided to quit their jobs and launch theSkimm. In this week's episode, Danielle and Carly share their love for storytelling, what it means to start their digital media company from their couch, and why they thought it was a bigger risk to not pursue theSkimm than it was to pursue it. They share what it's like to work with a co-founder and the benefits of having one, ways they applied grassroots marketing in the early days of the business when they had zero funds, and how they thought about growth & monetization. We also get the inside scoop on how they fostered an intensely engaged community through their Skimmbassador program, how they balance their relationship as friends and Co-CEOs, and what goes into producing great content. Danielle and Carly also open up about their biggest mistakes during their journey, how they dealt with rejection when fundraising early on, and so much more. * In this episode, we'll talk to Danielle and Carly about:* Their lives as journalists prior to theSkimm. [02:53]* Transitioning to full-time focus on theSkimm. [11:15]* No Plan B: Driving force for productivity. [17:33]* Growth propelled by theSkimm ambassador program. [22:01]* Finding the right investors amid rejections. [27:06]* Momentum building and monetization strategies. [29:56]* Fostering their relationship as co-founders. [33:37]* Tips for first time entrepreneurs. [38:35]* Prioritizing self-care basics. [41:39]* Who shouldn't be an entrepreneur. [48:55]This episode is brought to you by beeya: * Learn more about beeya's seed cycling bundle at https://beeyawellness.com/free to find out how to tackle hormonal imbalances. * Get $10 off your order by using promo code BEHINDHEREMPIRE10Follow Yasmin: * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yasminknouri/* Stay updated & subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.behindherempire.com/Follow Danielle and Carly: * Website: https://www.theskimm.com/* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theskimm/* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlyanddanielle/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's hard to remember a time when newsletters weren't flooding every inbox but today's guests were on the forefront of bringing easily digestible news directly to their audience. Today on Found, Becca is joined by Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, co-founders and co-CEOs of theSkimm which is a digital media company, dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. They talked about how they've navigated the digital media industry for over a decade, how they pitched this to investors when they were new to the game, and the importance of building a team that aligns with your vision.They also talked about:The importance of having a direct line to your audience and the benefit of building on your own platform, not on social mediaTheir grassroots marketing in the early daysHow one thing they nailed from the beginning is having a unique voice. (0:00) Introduction(1:35) being on the forefront of millennial media companies(6:08) the power of email marketing(8:35) the early days and bootstrapping(14:07) Not fitting the silicon valley mold(17:34) the co-founder relationship(23:11) Leadership styles and growing a company(29:31) Prioritizing growth Found posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to be alerted when new episodes drop. Check out the other TechCrunch podcasts: Equity and Chain Reaction. Subscribe to Found to hear more stories from founders each Connect with us:On TwitterOn InstagramVia email: found@techcrunch.com
Carly Zakin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carly-zakin-69942aa/) and Danielle Weisberg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-weisberg-3192538/) are co-founders and co-CEOs of theSkimm (https://www.theskimm.com/), a mission-driven media company empowering millennial women with the resources and confidence to maneuver through life's necessities – from their finances, health, and career to how they vote. The two former NBC news producers met while studying abroad in Rome. Unbeknownst to them, what began as a product launch from their Manhattan couch has since become a media empire harnessing the power of this generation of women. Carly and Danielle developed a product that delivers digestible, conversational information - from politics and breaking news to pop culture - to help Skimm'rs feel more informed about the world around them. Since theSkimm's inception in 2012, Carly and Danielle have expanded the company's product suite to include three top-rated podcasts (Skimm This, 9 to 5ish, and Pop Cultured), theSkimm app, Skimm Money and Skimm Your Life newsletters, and Skimm Studios. theSkimm's first book, How to Skimm Your Life, was released in June 2019 and debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list.
**Take Farnoosh's quick survey here to enter to win a signed copy of A Healthy State of Panic.** The childcare system is broken and mothers are largely paying the price. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as many as 100,000 Americans have been forced to stay home from work each month because of childcare problems. The economic toll amounts to $122 billion yearly in lost earnings, productivity, and revenue. Guest Danielle Weisberg is co-founder of TheSkimm, and her team has done research into this as well. In its report called The State of Women, the digital media company uncovers the realities and challenges women face today with resources to change the status quo. Their #ShowUsYourChildCare campaign inspires them to share how they support working parents. In the episode, Danielle shares insights from the report, including the financial and mental toll on working parents, specifically mothers, and how employees and employers can work together to provide more effective benefits for families. To access the resources mentioned in today's episode, visit ShowUsYourChildcare.org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The way we get our news is always changing — and lately, it seems to be changing more rapidly than ever before. One of the first outlets to make news bite-sized and informative was the Skimm, a newsletter that launched in 2012 and was developed by two former roommates, Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin. Danielle Weisberg joins us today to chat about why she calls herself a “reluctant entrepreneur”, how she and Carly make decisions and split responsibilities as co-CEOs, and what they've learned after 11 years of building theSkimm together. Join the HerMoney community! For the latest episode drops and financial news-you-can-use, subscribe to our newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eric Hansotia, Chief Executive Officer at AGCO, discusses growth, technology and sustainability in the agriculture industry. theSkimm Co-Founder Danielle Weisberg talks about their Show Us Your Child Care initiative. Bloomberg News Chief Correspondent for Global Macro Markets Liz McCormick and Bloomberg News Cross Asset Reporter Denitsa Tsekova provide the details of their Businessweek Magazine story Hedge Funds Turbocharge Volatility in Cratering US Bond Market. And we Drive to the Close with Amanda Agati, Chief Investment Officer at PNC Asset Management Group.Hosts: Carol Massar and Mike Regan. Producer: Paul Brennan. FULL TRANSCRIPT: This is Bloomberg Business. Wait inside from the reporters and editors who bring you America's most trusted business magazine, plus global business, finance and tech news. The Bloomberg Business Week Podcast with Carol Messer and Tim Stenebeck from Bloomberg Radio. Well shares at Adco. Check it out, everybody, They're up our third day, They're at more than six percent in that time. Company reported earnings yesterday morning, of which third quarter just at EPs was a big beat. Third quarter net sales in line with expectations, and the maker of tractors and combines also said it still sees fiscal year net sales of about fourteen point seven billion, slightly above street estimates, with fiscal year just ADPs of about fifteen dollars seventy five cents a share. That's fifty cents above the company's earlier forecasts. Three analysts nonetheless cutting their price targets on the company by an average of three and a half percent since it reported yesterday. So let's get to it. We have a great guest. We have the CEO, Chairman, President and CEO at ADCO, Eric Hansotea. Excuse me, Eric Hensotia, He's on zoom from Duluth, Georgia, and he joins, us, forgive me, forgive me. I'm trying to race to get to you. So I apologize. Eric. Oh you good, no problem, Really great to have you here with us. First of all, how are you? And I do have to ask you about the FED? In an environment where the FED says, you know, we could still continue raising rates, we're still worried about inflation. Does that kind of mesh with the outlook that you see? Well, your first question was how am I doing great? Just couldn't be happier with the progress that our company is having relative to our strategy. We're going to have two billion more in sales this year, We're going to grow margins significantly relative to the and it's all in line with our high tech focus on being the industry leader and smart farming machines relatively to the FED. You know, interest rates do weigh on farmers' minds. These are big as they carry a lot of technology. They're expensive machines, many times half a million to a million dollars, and so they often finance those machines, and higher interest rates are part of the part of the decision. I'm expecting that we're you know, at a high plateau and that we're more likely over the coming year to have red rates go down then up, and that would be welcomed by our customers, you know, Eric, I'm looking at the revenue growth of ag CO over the years and really some impressive growth there. Twenty twenty one is up, twenty two, twenty twenty two up fourteen percent, sixteen percent. This year, it does, at least according to analyst estimates, look like you might be in for a dip in revenue last year. And I'm wondering what's the what's driving that? Is that entirely an interest rate story or is there is there something else going on? It's actually very little related to interest rates. Agriculture often is not connected, not correlated highly with the regular GDP growth. It's more tied to the agricultural agricultural economy. So the price of corn, wheat, soybeans, and that's a function of how much green there is in the world. For the last two or three years, there's been green shortages and so green prices have been high. That means more profit for our farmers. Now they've had a great year this year in terms of harvest and so there's a little bit more stock prices have come down a bit, and that's really more what drives farmer profitability and then turn their interest to purchase equipment. Hey, Eric, what I wonder is longer term how you guys think about the business, how you plan, because I wonder if things like weather, climate change, demographics globally, is that more significant in terms of how you think about the growth longer term? And if so, what does that maybe indicate to you. Yeah, that's a great point, Carol. So we see three macro tailwinds plus this weather factor. So let me touch those real quickly. Number One, we're moving from eight billion people to ten billion people between now and twenty fifty. Number two, emerging economies are adding more meat to their diet as they do that. That's a multiplier on the demand for green chicken is a two to one multiplier, beef is a ten to one multiplier. And then third is renewable fuels, so ethanol in the United States. But now the next one is renewable diesel. Ethanol consumes forty percent of the corn crop today. Renewable diesel is likely going to grow to that same kind of proportion over the next few years. Those are all macro tailwinds that cause the farmer to have higher yields and more pressure on higher yields. And then weather is another one. We're having more severe droughts and more severe floods every year that reduces the overall global global ability to produce cream. So you add those four factors together and the farmers are pushed to have higher yields while using less inputs, less fertilizer, pesticide, chemicals and things like that, and so there's a big squeeze for productivity. Using our technology, we're using artificial intelligence on our now to be able to use vision systems so identify the difference between a weed and a plant as a machine's going through the field and spray only the weed, saving like seventy percent of the chemical and a lot of automation of features throughout all of our products. Can you say, I'm assuming you've been using AI for a long time though, right, Yes, we have. Across many of our machines. We use AI to understand the variation in soil or crop and have the machine learn over time to be able to optimize itself real time in the field. It's amazing because when you think of AI. The last thing I think most people think of is farm labor. Do you think of machines though, I think a machine. Well, Eric made a great point and I wanted to ask about this. Is right at the beginning, you said that technology aspect of your business is so important, and again, if you're not really familiar with ACO, you might not think about that. But one thing I wanted to ask about, Eric, and full disclosure, I'm not an expert on tractors. In fact, I hire a kid to cut my own grass, so I'm really I've driven a tract, this big one. There we go. So I'm coming at this from a pure ignorance state of mind. But I would think that self driving technology would be easier to implement on the farm with a tractor. But from my understanding is it's not really I wonder if you could talk to us a little about where you are with that type of technology. You know what we see it anytime soon? Or is it just, for whatever reason, too complicated to have self driving tractors. It's a great topic. It's at the heart of our strategy is putting technology on machines to have the machine be smarter and be able to do more things for the customer. I talked about the sprayer. We're automating all our functions on all of our machines. We've increased our engineering spend by sixty percent over the last three or four years since we started a strategy. We've bought six tech companies. We just announced the biggest AGG tech deal in history with Trimble agg where is over a two billion dollar deal to bring those to their technology and our technology together. So technology is a big deal. Now let's talk about the autonomy question. Already, guidance, which Trimble is is one of the world leaders in is used by farmers once they get into the field. They get into the field and they already turn on auto steer, which is a satellite driven guidance, tip the steering wheel out of the way and the machine steers for itself. Now it's still supervised today, but most large AGG has is the machine is doing the steering for itself. We've committed when we were in Wall Street last week last year, we committed that by the end of the decades, so twenty thirty, we would have the full crop cycle, meaning planting, spring, tractors, harvesting, all autonomous with no driver in them, and by twenty twenty five we'd have a retrofit kit that would be able to be put on an existing machine to make it autonomous. So it's a more contained environment. There's not so much other traffic and other things in the way, and you can stop. You don't have a lot of other traffic around, so you can if there's runs into a situation hasn't seen before, the machine will just failsafe mode is stop and then you can remotely view into it and restart it. It's like about right, there's lots of move there's a lot of space around you. Autopilots work really really well. Hey, in twenty twenty four, what do we expect for your company? Do you see higher prices due to inflation continuing And just got about forty seconds. Yeah, yeah, prices are going to moderate. You know, these last couple of years, we put a lot of pricing into the market, more than our a little bit more than our cost. We expect to still put more than our cost into the market because of all this technology we're bringing in the value it generates. But inflation is coming down pretty significantly for us, and so we think it'll be much more normalized. You know, we haven't given guidance, but it'll be more in the mid to low single digits than where we've been before. Any any kind of peak ten seconds in terms of the ag machinery market, do you see any kind of peeking out just very quickly. Well, we've still got strong demand going into next year. Our order boards are out six or seven months on large egg. We're sold out for our seasonal products. We're all through Mighty Year twenty four, so we still see twenty four as a good year, although getting more normalized. All right, love it, listen, come back soon, so appreciate it. Eric Hansodia He is chairman, president CEO at AGCO on zoom from Duluth, Georgia, So appreciate your time. On this Wednesday, you're listening to the Bloomberg Business Week podcast. Catch us live weekday afternoons from three to six Eastern Listen on Bloomberg dot com, the iHeartRadio app and the Bloomberg Business app, or watch us live on YouTube. All right, we're going to switch gears a little bit off of earnings. Talk about the skim. It's a non partisan digital media company catering to women. It's a subscription newsletter company to offer up things like the daily Skim Skim Money. There's also a podcast and a lot more in terms of what they do the privately held company. Their investors include GV which was formerly Google Ventures. Also Disney. We just heard Denise talk about Disney when it comes to the Hulu ownership. Ventures is another investor in the company. We talked with both of the founders back in March, and great to have back with us this time around. The Skim co founder Danielle Weisberg. She's on Zoom in New York City. Danielle, how are you. I'm good, Thanks so much for having me here today. Before we get into some specifics, I always like to talk perspective. You guys have been around for more than a decade. It's been a few months, about six months or so since we last talked. Talk to us about, you know, how business is doing this year, and just talk to us about how you see the environment right now. Yeah, So you know, listen, you guys are in this day in and day out in terms of public companies, and I think that when it comes to this environment, we know ADS spending has been really up and down. It's been tenuous. I think that when those budgets flex, the biggest thing that you can rely on is a direct relationship with a sought after customer. And at the Skim we have been representing millions of win women for over a decade. Our audience is the people that you want to reach and that you need to reach. They are the ones that are making ninety five percent of household purchasing and spending decisions. So while the overall media landscape continues to have challenges, we've certainly felt that, but at the Skim, what we come back to again and again is what you can't duplicate and what you can't just start overnight, which is a real direct relationship with a group of women who look for look for us every single day. How big is that group? Just remind us in terms of your reaction base over twelve million women. Wow, that's a lot. That is a lot. Are you just remind me to only subscription based or no, there's ad dollars that comes in. No, we have a differentiated revenue model. So we have sponsorship, we have subscription, and actually our fastest growing line of revenue has been commerce. Danielle, at the Skin, you have a very interesting initiative going on called show us your Childcare, Talk to us a little bit about what that is, what the goal of that is. Yeah, so it's a good day to talk about it because there was I don't know if you guys saw this, but there was a report today where we were finally able to look at data in comparison to childcare costs in twenty nineteen. So the price of childcare is up thirty two percent. That means that many families can't afford to both work, and that price search outpaysd overall inflation. I mean, when you look back this year, how much time have we spent reporting on inflation and thinking about what that is doing to families and the decisions that they're having to make, and think about then what it means to say childcare costs are going beyond that. And again this isn't new. This child share share childcare crisis has been in existence for years and the pandemic only made that worse. And in fact, the only time that there has been an investment the US has ever made a sizable investment in childcare was during the pandemic. And when that pandemic era funding expired, which it did, there were no other solutions offered. So it's leaving about three point two million children and their families without childcare options, and that is absolutely just unacceptable. We have an economy that more and more relies on parents, both of them to work, and to do that, you need to make sure that your kids have proper care. Right Listen, you're preaching to the choir. Nobody's going to like get. We totally agree. We talk so much here, I feel like about the lack of affordable daycare or childcare, if you will, for many, many millions of Americans. Other countries seem to have figured it out. You guys, have a partnership and talk to us a little bit about it with moms first. You're partnering also with companies such as Verizon, MasterCards, show Banni on this. Tell us what specifically are you are doing to kind of impact this problem or the situation. Yeah, So we launched hashtags show us your Childcare. And this is the second real civic action campaign that we've lost that we've launched. The first was hashtag show us Your Leave. And what we believe is really matching areas with there is a disconnect for what the government is doing so. Again, childcare has not been something that's been solved by Democrats in leadership or Republicans, and so because of that, we again have really needed the private sector to step up. And I think that this is a time when there's not one right way to know how to support your business through a childcare cliff. But how best do you think the private sector can do it? I think many would argue, yeah, maybe the government doesn't need to be involved, that there are private sectors that have definitely been very profitable and that as a benefit, or to help out their workers to make it easier, or in a tight labor force, bring more workers in to actually provide childcare. So what are the one or two things that can really make a difference here. Well, the first is use it to attract and retain talent. So this is a big way to make your policies transparent. Use our hashtag show us your childcare. And that's where we've gotten over eighty companies such as Pinterest, Shobani, ww ets, Verizon to make their policies transparent. And what that does is it really virtue signals that you care about families and that you are going to put your money where your mouth is. But what any of those companies actually do, That's what I'm curious about. What do they do that actually helps people with their childcare needs. Yeah, so it's everything from flexible work hours to cash stipends to put towards childcare costs. One of the things that we do at the SKIM is team up with a partner VB to make sure that there's backup care options. So we offer kind of a bank of credits those days when you have normal childcare but you need a plan B your childcare provider is closed or someone sick. So it really runs the gamut to onsite childcare centers. And again, you know, it's going to depend on the size of your business how much you're able to invest. But there are different things out there, and we want to make sure that that's part of the conversation when it comes to benefits. And I imagine there's a pretty good economic incentive for some companies to get more engaged with childcare. Is that a selling point of this initiative? And Daniel just got about twenty seconds. Yeah, I think it is, and I think overall as a society, we should all make sure that we have a growing workforce that we have nice things like social securities, and to do that, we need to make sure that women stay in the workforce. So I think overall there's a benefit there, but there's also investing employees they'll stay longer. All Right, we got to run, Thank you so much, A very timely issued something we've been talking about. Bloomberg. This give co founder Danielle Weisberg on zoom in New York City. This is Bloomberg. You're listening to the Bloomberg Business Week podcast. Catch us live weekday afternoons from three to six Eastern on Bloomberg Radio, the Bloomberg Business app, and YouTube. You can also listen live on Amazon Alexa from our flagship New York station, Just say Alexa playing Bloomberg eleven thirty. Yeah. One man's loss is another one's game. That is definitely cocky. Attention of the hedge fund industry on this FED decision day Wednesday, if you will, the US Treasury, you know, trade is definitely on our minds, Mike. The funny thing is it's been on our minds a lot this year, amid big swings in the trade volatility in any given day, we've seen tremendous swings. Yeah. Absolutely, and it's fascinating to see sort of new classes of hedge funds get involved in the treasury market. You know, there's certain macro funds that are always president there. But whenever I see the name long tail Alpha, you know, a tail risk catch fund, I know something's gone wrong somewhere when these guys are actively involved in the trade. So I think that's the case with the story. Well, let's get to it, because it's a story that is reported out in the new issue of Bloomberg Business Week. Let's get into what's going on, as I said in the upcoming new issue on newsstands tomorrow, already online a Bloomberg dot com slash business Week, and of course on the Bloomberg terminal. So let's get to it. Bloomberg News Chief correspondent for Global macro Markets, Liz McCormick is with us. She is on zoom in New Jersey, and also with us is Bloomberg News crossauset reporter Denisatsakova. She's here in our Bloomberg Interactive Brokers studio. Guys, so great to have you here with us. It is in BusinessWeek, the upcoming new issue, which will be out on newsstands tomorrow. Denise, let's start with you. I'm curious about the conversation in the newsroom. Joel has a tendency they'll kind of walk around the newsroom and like kind of poke people about stories. How did this story come about? What was the conversation or did you know one of you say like, you should see what hedge fund guys are up to, So tell us how this came to be. Yeah, so it came back to that theme. We've talked a lot about price sensitive and price incentensitive buyers, so we wanted to look into who are really those new buyers, and hedgephone's a big part of it. And obviously, like if you think of just generally trading treasuries and think of it as the safest market and kind of a little bit slower moving market compared to I don't know, compared to equities, currencies, I don't know. So the conversation came, how has the day of those people changed? And this is what we ask them, So won't tail Alpha ven year's day is very different? You know. The first anecdote is he wakes up every two hours to check the prices, and you know, it's being there on your Bloomberg terminal or whatever. You check your prices all the time and following every little move and then every small data release is very important and potentially it can make you move things. And obviously, like some of those traits have voice trades, sometimes you have to be in the and look at all those releases together decide where you have to make moves. And you can imagine this is very different than I don't know, five years ago, when the FED was such a big important buyer and prices maybe weren't as sensitive to those things. Yeah, this is why I'm not a tail risk hedge fund. That that well, well, I want to bring listen to this conversation, Liz, because we talk about the extreme volatility that we see in the US bond market this year. So are they playing our hedge fund guys and gals, if you will, playing a significant role in that volatility? Well? Yeah, right? Is it circular? Right? And they like the volatility, they come in, they create more volatility, right, So it kind of feeds on itself and then more it becomes and I have to do a shout out. I know Tracy Alloway at some point did a story treasury is trading like a meme stock, so we have to book that one up. But that it becomes like, you know, what was it? Oh, I think Mike Reagan must have edited one of these stories we did where there was other things that were like the hot things that was crypto. And now look at this treasuries even today, look at the yields across the curve. It's like down, you know, over fifteen bases points. It's crazy. So I think hedge fund's coming in because there's more volatility and trading than that adds to it. But they do kind of on the flip side say hey, we're adding to the liquidity, we're you know, making markets. And Deniza knows. Today we had the refunding today and they had their barring committee, which the Treasury always does look into different things. One of them was like the demand base, and they brought up things that were in our story, not that it was from our story, but that the buying base has changed. You know, you have less commercial banks, foreign central banks, you have more households and hedge funds you know, involved in the treasury market. So it's kind of interesting that they brought that up today. Mike did call it a meme stock by the way early. Yeah, I really wanted to take credit for that, but of course Liz Tracy's way ahead of me as usual. But Liz, you know, one of the sort of standard bread and butter hedge fund trades when it comes to the treasury market is something known as the basis trade, which basically looks to profit between discrepancies in the price of bond futures and the actual bonds trading in the cash market. That seems to be kicking into high gear this year, and there's a bit of a backlash to that from the government and some scrutiny about what hedge funds are doing. I know, it's created its own backlash to the backlash, Ken Griffin coming out and saying, why do they care about this? This is sort of an innocuous trade that actually helps save taxpayers money in the bond market. Walk us through the basis trade and why there is scrutiny of it right now? Yeah, in fact, you're front running another story I have covered. Helpful get it out before you do. But yeah, it's been interesting. Like you said, we've had the FED, the BIS, A lot of regulators say hey, we'll worry the side of the size of this basis trade is gotten as jig as it was like in March twenty twenty, and we know what happened then. But yeah, normally this is kind of like you say, picking pennies up under steamroller. You're shorting the futures, you're buying the cash. If you take it to you know, to expiration of the futures, they should converge and where they see some discrepancies, some price discrepancies, that's why you'll do that trade. Where the risk comes in is that most of that is done using leverage, meaning using the repo market to finance the treasury side. So you have the risk that's what happened in like twenty nineteen, that repo rates go crazy for whatever reason and you just can't keep funding this trade. On the flip side when volatility picks up, as you know in futures, you tend to get margin calls. It's just part of the metrics. And so if you started getting margin calls on the short side, so you know, things can just go awry on both sides and all of a sudden, you know you just can't keep in this trade. Then there's a mass exit. That's the way that there's a problem when everyone's running on the same way, right and no one can get out. And remember Mike, in twenty twenty, we had people saying, hey, I had a good trade, I couldn't even get out of that because there's just no liquidity, right. Well, that's what I wanted to ask. Don't we want it to be a little bit of a sleepy market that you know, foreign central banks and the Fed and others you know, use and can count on to be kind of trade a certain way. I mean, don't we to some extent they need to care about the composition of buyers or are we just glad that there are buyers in this market. We do care about the composition for sure, and obviously, like just to give perspective, So those big traditional buyers, including the FED, commercial banks, foreign buyers used to count for seventy five percent of the ownership of the treasury market. That number now is fifty five percent. So this is a very big drop. And speaking to different experts who've been following this for a year, a lot of people saying that in a case where there's a little like a slightly bigger shock, probably there will be very sharp moves, and the market is more fragile to those moves that and it was in the past because obviously hedge funds are a big part. They're very price sensitive, but mutual are also growing fast, pension funds are growing fast. They're not necessarily moving as fast as hedge funds obviously, but are sensitive to macro events. So all those different participants are a lot more likely to react on who knows the next banking news or oil prices or any of those little things. But hedge funds have always been a part of this market, right, it is now there a bigger part we know, percentage wise. Yeah, they have tripled in the past year. So currently they own two point three trillion, which is close to ten percent of the treasury market. Which makes me wonder if he gets sleepy again, Mike, do they just run in the other direction right to make money? Yeah, and it makes me You know, the dirty word in macroland is are you a tourist in this market? Yeah? Are you really a macro fund who's used to this trade and knows what to do? Or are you taking riskue you're an equity manager, you know. I've seen a few headlines out this week Bill Ackman with shortening treasuries, he's changed his mind. He's now covering that shere Stan, Truck and Miller are a very wealth known hedge fund manager used to work with George Sourez without saying he's very bullish treasuries. So is that at least the tourist sort of mentality. Does it seem like the consensus is we've seen the peak and yields, it's now time to back up the truck and start going along the treasury market? Do you think? I think the peak is for sure, very important, but it's also very important that for a very long time it was the direction of trouble was very sure. And obviously like the Fed is likely to continue rowing off its bounce sheet, so them being a smaller portion of it guarantees more volatility, whether those traits are whether short bonds will still be a successful trade. Obviously this is this is going back to the debate where we've seen the peak, but the fact that they're more say realty value trades or or you know, basis traits or things where you can exploit that volatility stace. No matter whether we've reached dot peakids I wonder too, Liz, come on back in. I mean what you make for someoney who's also followed this, you know for a long time in terms of the bond market and treasury trade to see a greater role of hedge funds. I do wonder, listen. They love volatility, right, they want things to move. That's how you make money and quickly for investors. But I do wonder does that potentially, you know, or could it spell trouble? We always talk about right, these changing rate environments, and you know, as the tide goes out, like we get to see all the problems and we you know, could it create some kind of crisis many or otherwise in the future. Well, I have to say, and I wouldn't be doing a good service. And maybe Treasury Department will still talk to me if I do mention that. John Josh Frost, to the Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets, said publicly in a press conference. Listen, we still have a very diverse buyer base. We're not lying on any one type of investor or group of investors. So they're saying, hey, we're doing fine. But to your point, Carol, I think that is why regulators worry like they're zoning in on leverage of things, but you don't want a massive positioning and with one group of investors, who if they go the other way, you just create this groundswell of movement and they take everyone else out in the process. So I think that's the risk when any trade gets too big, especially when it's leveraged, that's a problem. But like I said, Treasury saying, we're okay, we're looking at all this, but we still have enough folks that want to buy our stuff that we're not concerned. But like, who knows well to see what happens for now? How? Yeah? Yeah, Well, let's I wonder you know that that expression crowded trade comes to mind with a story like this. I mean, is there enough diversity in sort of the trades going on or is there a risk of crowding in certain trades, especially you know when you look at how the yield curve is really steepened pretty aggressively in the last couple month, you know, is that potentially a crowded trade or you know, are there any pockets of crowded trades we should think about in this market right now? Well? I would say I think the biggest one is the basis, even though some people argue there's reasons it's not as big, But I keep saying, like Denisa says, it's this debate have yields peaked and that I think people keep getting burned, you know. I mean, we've seen a massive fall today, but that yields have peaked, let me just load up, bring up the truck and buy them, and then yields go up again. And so I think that's where the risk is that people are trying to just can't seem to time this market right, you know. So that's creating the extra volatility, not just from the hedge funds but just regular macro funds, et cetera, thinking it's time now. Maybe they're okay in the long run because this will come back. But I think that's the risk that people just can't seem to get a clarity for sure where rates are going. Yeah, right, exactly. The crystal ball is really muddy right now, Deniza. Just to bring it back to how you guys kick off this story the founder of long Tail Alpha and talking to him, does it feel like it's a trade he plans to be in for a long time or is it something he's like, Yeah, this is maybe a one or two your thing or I don't know. Yeah, I think this is not including the story. But he actually said that probably the best time for this trade is yet to come. As cliche as that is, but this is something we've also heard. We talked to people, of course, I mean, what else could he say, But we also talk to people like who are selling trading algorithms and who very you know, have a very good perception where the basis trade is growing, and they're saying that in the past three months they've seen the most demand they've seen for these type of things, and obviously they have interest in saying that this will continue to be strong. But this is this is a thing we're saying. So for sure, there are numerous players in this space that are saying that as long as there is uncertainty of peakios, as long as the FED is rowing off his bounce sheets, as long as we see that volatility, uh, there may be more appetite for those things. Feels like we could see some more volatility, guys. Thank you so much. Bloomberg News process that reporter Deniza Zakova along with Bloomberg News, she correspondent for Global Macro Markets Liz McCormick. This story in the new upcoming issue of Bloomberg Business Week, on newstands tomorrow, already on the Bloomberg and already online at Bloomberg dot Com. I'm brother Marco, the journal. Now about you. Let me drive? No no, no no, no, please going to drive, honey, please, I'll do the gravels. Let's wat I want to try it. It's good question that try. This is the drive to the clothes dot com tek we'll buy around fold it on Bloomberg Radio and a very good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Bloomberg Business Week live in our Bloomberg Interactive Broker studio, streaming on YouTube than Bloomberg Originals. It is a FED Wednesday, as you've been listening on TV and across Bloomberg channels. FED Wednesday, the first day of November, and the FED holding rates at a twenty two year high for a second straight meeting, and the FED Chief Jay Powell asking should we be hiking more? Which I feel like sets the tone. I'm Carol Masser. Tim Stanovec is off today and with us as Bloomberg's Mike Reagan, and I do feel like Mike. There was a lot of things where they He kind of continued to remind us that inflation is still elevated, and I feel like they might not be done yet. Yeah, I mean, and I don't think he said anything too new today really changed the outlook for interest rates at all. But we do have this really wild rally in the stock and the bond market right now, So I wonder you know how much of that is sort of people caught on the short end, short selling both stocks and bonds before this and now having to cover. I'm not one hundred percent convinced you can trust this as sort of the markets interpretation of what he's saying. Right you think about how they were positioning ahead of all of this and thinking it was going to be a lot more negga, Yeah, and so often, you know, we see these reactions in the market the day of a FED press conference and then wake up the next morning and wait a minute, everyone, wait twenty four hour cycle that hasn't happened before this year. It's a really good point. But we are seeing equities hold and it's pretty broad based buying. Let's get back to the markets. It is a FED Wednesday. Stocks are ralling. We've seen yields back off, and lucky for us on our drive to the close on this FED Wednesday is Amanda Gotti. She's chief investment officer at P and C Asset Management, joining us once again out there on zoom in Philadelphia. Amanda, there's a rally underway in stocks. Yields have backed off. I think Mike makes a great point that maybe some investors were caught off guard expecting a much more negative tone or negative description statement whatever from the Federal Reserve. Do you discount the trade today? Oh? Absolutely, I discount the trade. I mean, there's no question that sentiment has been pretty lousy in the last you know, four to six weeks. Yields of move rapidly higher. We think very crowded positioning at one end. So there's a scurrying around that's happening here into the close today to reposition. But I'm not sure that we learned a lot of new information. I mean, I think it's hard for me to say that Powell had his hawk costume on for Halloween. Maybe it was a little bit lighter of a tone than he has been recently. But the door is still very much open for additional tighter policy from here. So we think this rally is going to be short lived. And I know you're in Philadelphia, and I think we should make a deal not to discuss the Phillies at all during this interview. Thank you, I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah, me too. But I wonder, as October, for all the wrong reasons, I was in a hotel with the Arizona team when they lost. Uh yeah, am I wrong? Well they lost, they lost a few games in Philly, but they ended up winning the series. Hey, we're not going to talk about it, Carol, all right, Okay, still too soon now, I mean, you know, we're going to talk later in the show about sort of this wild year of volatility in the bond market. And I wonder, just as a professional in these markets, what's it like coming in every day and seeing these wild moves in the treasury market, you know, this market we were so accustomed to being quiet and sort of boring, you know, And what do you think is needed to calm it down? Well, it's a great question. It's almost an unanswerable one at the moment here. I think as investors we've been conditioned to a hashtag high volatility regime for quite some time now. I mean, think about the last three years of unprecedented challenges and return negative returns in the bond market, so we're starting to get conditioned to this. But I think at the end of the day, it's all a function of this unprecedented policy accommodation that came in at the onset of the pandemic and now this unprecedented unwinding. At the end of the day, it's just going to take a lot longer. I keep saying longer for longer. It's not higher for longer, it's longer for longer. Everything about this is just going to take longer to normalize than what investors would like. And I think it's, you know, again, kind of just hammering the same thing that I feel like Mike and I kind of agree in terms of what we got from Japwell, the risks of doing too little. They're worried about that, even though he's stressed right out of the gate, we've got a dual mandate and that eventually maybe some of this will start to work its way into the labor side of the equation. The risks of doing too little is certainly I feel like top of mind for him, absolutely, and we agree with that that's why we continue to think that the door is potentially open for some tighter policy ahead. I think the key question is whether the market has done the Fed's job for it or not. And he even acknowledged that a little bit that with the I think the market has done enough of the job for the FED at this point. I think it's done enough at the moment. I mean, think about the you know, one hundred bases points that we've seen a move here in the longer term portion of the curve. It's been a very violent move, no matter how you slice and dice it. And so I think for now we're definitely in sufficiently restrictive territory. But there's still plenty of ammo from an economic data perspective to go further here. Economic growth continues to come in pretty strong. Ism report today gave a very polar opposite story here, but US consumer is still very strong, inflation not to the long term target, So I think there is room. I think we just need to, as Pale said, let some of the lagged effects of this policy work its way through here. But we are definitely in restrictive territory for sure. Yo. I meta one of the themes this year is the yield curve, you know, the difference between yields on shorter term debt and longer term debt. And we've been living with this inverted curve for a long time where the shorter maturity debt is yielding more than the longer maturity debt. We have seen this very aggressive steepening in the last few months, and you had a really interesting point in your note to us talking about that steepening of the curve, and it's a very unique thing that's happening, this bear steepening of the curve while it's inverted. What's the takeaway from that, Well, I think it's an interesting dynamic because we of course have this inverted yield curve, it's been consistently inverted for the better part of a year plus, but we're also having this bear steepening phenomenon. And usually when you see that start to come into the equation, it's like, oh, here's the signal for something's going to crack in the backdrop. But it's actually only happened once in the last fifty years where we've had both of these dynamics in play that you don't usually see them together, and so the one time that we have in history was right before the nineteen sixty nine nineteen seventy recession began. And so one data point does not make a trend. It's not a perfect guide or predictor for what's to come next. But we do think the net effect is just a lot of pressure on high valuation stocks and the long end of the curve too. All right, we've got to run. Hey, listen, Amanda, Thank you so much, so appreciate. Amanda A. Gotti of URPNC. This is the Bloomberg Business Week podcast, available on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcast. 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Eric Hansotia, Chief Executive Officer at AGCO, discusses growth, technology and sustainability in the agriculture industry. theSkimm Co-Founder Danielle Weisberg talks about their Show Us Your Child Care initiative. Bloomberg News Chief Correspondent for Global Macro Markets Liz McCormick and Bloomberg News Cross Asset Reporter Denitsa Tsekova provide the details of their Businessweek Magazine story Hedge Funds Turbocharge Volatility in Cratering US Bond Market. And we Drive to the Close with Amanda Agati, Chief Investment Officer at PNC Asset Management Group.Hosts: Carol Massar and Mike Regan. Producer: Paul Brennan. FULL TRANSCRIPT: This is Bloomberg Business. Wait inside from the reporters and editors who bring you America's most trusted business magazine, plus global business, finance and tech news. The Bloomberg Business Week Podcast with Carol Messer and Tim Stenebeck from Bloomberg Radio. Well shares at Adco. Check it out, everybody, They're up our third day, They're at more than six percent in that time. Company reported earnings yesterday morning, of which third quarter just at EPs was a big beat. Third quarter net sales in line with expectations, and the maker of tractors and combines also said it still sees fiscal year net sales of about fourteen point seven billion, slightly above street estimates, with fiscal year just ADPs of about fifteen dollars seventy five cents a share. That's fifty cents above the company's earlier forecasts. Three analysts nonetheless cutting their price targets on the company by an average of three and a half percent since it reported yesterday. So let's get to it. We have a great guest. We have the CEO, Chairman, President and CEO at ADCO, Eric Hansotea. Excuse me, Eric Hensotia, He's on zoom from Duluth, Georgia, and he joins, us, forgive me, forgive me. I'm trying to race to get to you. So I apologize. Eric. Oh you good, no problem, Really great to have you here with us. First of all, how are you? And I do have to ask you about the FED? In an environment where the FED says, you know, we could still continue raising rates, we're still worried about inflation. Does that kind of mesh with the outlook that you see? Well, your first question was how am I doing great? Just couldn't be happier with the progress that our company is having relative to our strategy. We're going to have two billion more in sales this year, We're going to grow margins significantly relative to the and it's all in line with our high tech focus on being the industry leader and smart farming machines relatively to the FED. You know, interest rates do weigh on farmers' minds. These are big as they carry a lot of technology. They're expensive machines, many times half a million to a million dollars, and so they often finance those machines, and higher interest rates are part of the part of the decision. I'm expecting that we're you know, at a high plateau and that we're more likely over the coming year to have red rates go down then up, and that would be welcomed by our customers, you know, Eric, I'm looking at the revenue growth of ag CO over the years and really some impressive growth there. Twenty twenty one is up, twenty two, twenty twenty two up fourteen percent, sixteen percent. This year, it does, at least according to analyst estimates, look like you might be in for a dip in revenue last year. And I'm wondering what's the what's driving that? Is that entirely an interest rate story or is there is there something else going on? It's actually very little related to interest rates. Agriculture often is not connected, not correlated highly with the regular GDP growth. It's more tied to the agricultural agricultural economy. So the price of corn, wheat, soybeans, and that's a function of how much green there is in the world. For the last two or three years, there's been green shortages and so green prices have been high. That means more profit for our farmers. Now they've had a great year this year in terms of harvest and so there's a little bit more stock prices have come down a bit, and that's really more what drives farmer profitability and then turn their interest to purchase equipment. Hey, Eric, what I wonder is longer term how you guys think about the business, how you plan, because I wonder if things like weather, climate change, demographics globally, is that more significant in terms of how you think about the growth longer term? And if so, what does that maybe indicate to you. Yeah, that's a great point, Carol. So we see three macro tailwinds plus this weather factor. So let me touch those real quickly. Number One, we're moving from eight billion people to ten billion people between now and twenty fifty. Number two, emerging economies are adding more meat to their diet as they do that. That's a multiplier on the demand for green chicken is a two to one multiplier, beef is a ten to one multiplier. And then third is renewable fuels, so ethanol in the United States. But now the next one is renewable diesel. Ethanol consumes forty percent of the corn crop today. Renewable diesel is likely going to grow to that same kind of proportion over the next few years. Those are all macro tailwinds that cause the farmer to have higher yields and more pressure on higher yields. And then weather is another one. We're having more severe droughts and more severe floods every year that reduces the overall global global ability to produce cream. So you add those four factors together and the farmers are pushed to have higher yields while using less inputs, less fertilizer, pesticide, chemicals and things like that, and so there's a big squeeze for productivity. Using our technology, we're using artificial intelligence on our now to be able to use vision systems so identify the difference between a weed and a plant as a machine's going through the field and spray only the weed, saving like seventy percent of the chemical and a lot of automation of features throughout all of our products. Can you say, I'm assuming you've been using AI for a long time though, right, Yes, we have. Across many of our machines. We use AI to understand the variation in soil or crop and have the machine learn over time to be able to optimize itself real time in the field. It's amazing because when you think of AI. The last thing I think most people think of is farm labor. Do you think of machines though, I think a machine. Well, Eric made a great point and I wanted to ask about this. Is right at the beginning, you said that technology aspect of your business is so important, and again, if you're not really familiar with ACO, you might not think about that. But one thing I wanted to ask about, Eric, and full disclosure, I'm not an expert on tractors. In fact, I hire a kid to cut my own grass, so I'm really I've driven a tract, this big one. There we go. So I'm coming at this from a pure ignorance state of mind. But I would think that self driving technology would be easier to implement on the farm with a tractor. But from my understanding is it's not really I wonder if you could talk to us a little about where you are with that type of technology. You know what we see it anytime soon? Or is it just, for whatever reason, too complicated to have self driving tractors. It's a great topic. It's at the heart of our strategy is putting technology on machines to have the machine be smarter and be able to do more things for the customer. I talked about the sprayer. We're automating all our functions on all of our machines. We've increased our engineering spend by sixty percent over the last three or four years since we started a strategy. We've bought six tech companies. We just announced the biggest AGG tech deal in history with Trimble agg where is over a two billion dollar deal to bring those to their technology and our technology together. So technology is a big deal. Now let's talk about the autonomy question. Already, guidance, which Trimble is is one of the world leaders in is used by farmers once they get into the field. They get into the field and they already turn on auto steer, which is a satellite driven guidance, tip the steering wheel out of the way and the machine steers for itself. Now it's still supervised today, but most large AGG has is the machine is doing the steering for itself. We've committed when we were in Wall Street last week last year, we committed that by the end of the decades, so twenty thirty, we would have the full crop cycle, meaning planting, spring, tractors, harvesting, all autonomous with no driver in them, and by twenty twenty five we'd have a retrofit kit that would be able to be put on an existing machine to make it autonomous. So it's a more contained environment. There's not so much other traffic and other things in the way, and you can stop. You don't have a lot of other traffic around, so you can if there's runs into a situation hasn't seen before, the machine will just failsafe mode is stop and then you can remotely view into it and restart it. It's like about right, there's lots of move there's a lot of space around you. Autopilots work really really well. Hey, in twenty twenty four, what do we expect for your company? Do you see higher prices due to inflation continuing And just got about forty seconds. Yeah, yeah, prices are going to moderate. You know, these last couple of years, we put a lot of pricing into the market, more than our a little bit more than our cost. We expect to still put more than our cost into the market because of all this technology we're bringing in the value it generates. But inflation is coming down pretty significantly for us, and so we think it'll be much more normalized. You know, we haven't given guidance, but it'll be more in the mid to low single digits than where we've been before. Any any kind of peak ten seconds in terms of the ag machinery market, do you see any kind of peeking out just very quickly. Well, we've still got strong demand going into next year. Our order boards are out six or seven months on large egg. We're sold out for our seasonal products. We're all through Mighty Year twenty four, so we still see twenty four as a good year, although getting more normalized. All right, love it, listen, come back soon, so appreciate it. Eric Hansodia He is chairman, president CEO at AGCO on zoom from Duluth, Georgia, So appreciate your time. On this Wednesday, you're listening to the Bloomberg Business Week podcast. Catch us live weekday afternoons from three to six Eastern Listen on Bloomberg dot com, the iHeartRadio app and the Bloomberg Business app, or watch us live on YouTube. All right, we're going to switch gears a little bit off of earnings. Talk about the skim. It's a non partisan digital media company catering to women. It's a subscription newsletter company to offer up things like the daily Skim Skim Money. There's also a podcast and a lot more in terms of what they do the privately held company. Their investors include GV which was formerly Google Ventures. Also Disney. We just heard Denise talk about Disney when it comes to the Hulu ownership. Ventures is another investor in the company. We talked with both of the founders back in March, and great to have back with us this time around. The Skim co founder Danielle Weisberg. She's on Zoom in New York City. Danielle, how are you. I'm good, Thanks so much for having me here today. Before we get into some specifics, I always like to talk perspective. You guys have been around for more than a decade. It's been a few months, about six months or so since we last talked. Talk to us about, you know, how business is doing this year, and just talk to us about how you see the environment right now. Yeah, So you know, listen, you guys are in this day in and day out in terms of public companies, and I think that when it comes to this environment, we know ADS spending has been really up and down. It's been tenuous. I think that when those budgets flex, the biggest thing that you can rely on is a direct relationship with a sought after customer. And at the Skim we have been representing millions of win women for over a decade. Our audience is the people that you want to reach and that you need to reach. They are the ones that are making ninety five percent of household purchasing and spending decisions. So while the overall media landscape continues to have challenges, we've certainly felt that, but at the Skim, what we come back to again and again is what you can't duplicate and what you can't just start overnight, which is a real direct relationship with a group of women who look for look for us every single day. How big is that group? Just remind us in terms of your reaction base over twelve million women. Wow, that's a lot. That is a lot. Are you just remind me to only subscription based or no, there's ad dollars that comes in. No, we have a differentiated revenue model. So we have sponsorship, we have subscription, and actually our fastest growing line of revenue has been commerce. Danielle, at the Skin, you have a very interesting initiative going on called show us your Childcare, Talk to us a little bit about what that is, what the goal of that is. Yeah, so it's a good day to talk about it because there was I don't know if you guys saw this, but there was a report today where we were finally able to look at data in comparison to childcare costs in twenty nineteen. So the price of childcare is up thirty two percent. That means that many families can't afford to both work, and that price search outpaysd overall inflation. I mean, when you look back this year, how much time have we spent reporting on inflation and thinking about what that is doing to families and the decisions that they're having to make, and think about then what it means to say childcare costs are going beyond that. And again this isn't new. This child share share childcare crisis has been in existence for years and the pandemic only made that worse. And in fact, the only time that there has been an investment the US has ever made a sizable investment in childcare was during the pandemic. And when that pandemic era funding expired, which it did, there were no other solutions offered. So it's leaving about three point two million children and their families without childcare options, and that is absolutely just unacceptable. We have an economy that more and more relies on parents, both of them to work, and to do that, you need to make sure that your kids have proper care. Right Listen, you're preaching to the choir. Nobody's going to like get. We totally agree. We talk so much here, I feel like about the lack of affordable daycare or childcare, if you will, for many, many millions of Americans. Other countries seem to have figured it out. You guys, have a partnership and talk to us a little bit about it with moms first. You're partnering also with companies such as Verizon, MasterCards, show Banni on this. Tell us what specifically are you are doing to kind of impact this problem or the situation. Yeah, So we launched hashtags show us your Childcare. And this is the second real civic action campaign that we've lost that we've launched. The first was hashtag show us Your Leave. And what we believe is really matching areas with there is a disconnect for what the government is doing so. Again, childcare has not been something that's been solved by Democrats in leadership or Republicans, and so because of that, we again have really needed the private sector to step up. And I think that this is a time when there's not one right way to know how to support your business through a childcare cliff. But how best do you think the private sector can do it? I think many would argue, yeah, maybe the government doesn't need to be involved, that there are private sectors that have definitely been very profitable and that as a benefit, or to help out their workers to make it easier, or in a tight labor force, bring more workers in to actually provide childcare. So what are the one or two things that can really make a difference here. Well, the first is use it to attract and retain talent. So this is a big way to make your policies transparent. Use our hashtag show us your childcare. And that's where we've gotten over eighty companies such as Pinterest, Shobani, ww ets, Verizon to make their policies transparent. And what that does is it really virtue signals that you care about families and that you are going to put your money where your mouth is. But what any of those companies actually do, That's what I'm curious about. What do they do that actually helps people with their childcare needs. Yeah, so it's everything from flexible work hours to cash stipends to put towards childcare costs. One of the things that we do at the SKIM is team up with a partner VB to make sure that there's backup care options. So we offer kind of a bank of credits those days when you have normal childcare but you need a plan B your childcare provider is closed or someone sick. So it really runs the gamut to onsite childcare centers. And again, you know, it's going to depend on the size of your business how much you're able to invest. But there are different things out there, and we want to make sure that that's part of the conversation when it comes to benefits. And I imagine there's a pretty good economic incentive for some companies to get more engaged with childcare. Is that a selling point of this initiative? And Daniel just got about twenty seconds. Yeah, I think it is, and I think overall as a society, we should all make sure that we have a growing workforce that we have nice things like social securities, and to do that, we need to make sure that women stay in the workforce. So I think overall there's a benefit there, but there's also investing employees they'll stay longer. All Right, we got to run, Thank you so much, A very timely issued something we've been talking about. Bloomberg. This give co founder Danielle Weisberg on zoom in New York City. This is Bloomberg. You're listening to the Bloomberg Business Week podcast. Catch us live weekday afternoons from three to six Eastern on Bloomberg Radio, the Bloomberg Business app, and YouTube. You can also listen live on Amazon Alexa from our flagship New York station, Just say Alexa playing Bloomberg eleven thirty. Yeah. One man's loss is another one's game. That is definitely cocky. Attention of the hedge fund industry on this FED decision day Wednesday, if you will, the US Treasury, you know, trade is definitely on our minds, Mike. The funny thing is it's been on our minds a lot this year, amid big swings in the trade volatility in any given day, we've seen tremendous swings. Yeah. Absolutely, and it's fascinating to see sort of new classes of hedge funds get involved in the treasury market. You know, there's certain macro funds that are always president there. But whenever I see the name long tail Alpha, you know, a tail risk catch fund, I know something's gone wrong somewhere when these guys are actively involved in the trade. So I think that's the case with the story. Well, let's get to it, because it's a story that is reported out in the new issue of Bloomberg Business Week. Let's get into what's going on, as I said in the upcoming new issue on newsstands tomorrow, already online a Bloomberg dot com slash business Week, and of course on the Bloomberg terminal. So let's get to it. Bloomberg News Chief correspondent for Global macro Markets, Liz McCormick is with us. She is on zoom in New Jersey, and also with us is Bloomberg News crossauset reporter Denisatsakova. She's here in our Bloomberg Interactive Brokers studio. Guys, so great to have you here with us. It is in BusinessWeek, the upcoming new issue, which will be out on newsstands tomorrow. Denise, let's start with you. I'm curious about the conversation in the newsroom. Joel has a tendency they'll kind of walk around the newsroom and like kind of poke people about stories. How did this story come about? What was the conversation or did you know one of you say like, you should see what hedge fund guys are up to, So tell us how this came to be. Yeah, so it came back to that theme. We've talked a lot about price sensitive and price incentensitive buyers, so we wanted to look into who are really those new buyers, and hedgephone's a big part of it. And obviously, like if you think of just generally trading treasuries and think of it as the safest market and kind of a little bit slower moving market compared to I don't know, compared to equities, currencies, I don't know. So the conversation came, how has the day of those people changed? And this is what we ask them, So won't tail Alpha ven year's day is very different? You know. The first anecdote is he wakes up every two hours to check the prices, and you know, it's being there on your Bloomberg terminal or whatever. You check your prices all the time and following every little move and then every small data release is very important and potentially it can make you move things. And obviously, like some of those traits have voice trades, sometimes you have to be in the and look at all those releases together decide where you have to make moves. And you can imagine this is very different than I don't know, five years ago, when the FED was such a big important buyer and prices maybe weren't as sensitive to those things. Yeah, this is why I'm not a tail risk hedge fund. That that well, well, I want to bring listen to this conversation, Liz, because we talk about the extreme volatility that we see in the US bond market this year. So are they playing our hedge fund guys and gals, if you will, playing a significant role in that volatility? Well? Yeah, right? Is it circular? Right? And they like the volatility, they come in, they create more volatility, right, So it kind of feeds on itself and then more it becomes and I have to do a shout out. I know Tracy Alloway at some point did a story treasury is trading like a meme stock, so we have to book that one up. But that it becomes like, you know, what was it? Oh, I think Mike Reagan must have edited one of these stories we did where there was other things that were like the hot things that was crypto. And now look at this treasuries even today, look at the yields across the curve. It's like down, you know, over fifteen bases points. It's crazy. So I think hedge fund's coming in because there's more volatility and trading than that adds to it. But they do kind of on the flip side say hey, we're adding to the liquidity, we're you know, making markets. And Deniza knows. Today we had the refunding today and they had their barring committee, which the Treasury always does look into different things. One of them was like the demand base, and they brought up things that were in our story, not that it was from our story, but that the buying base has changed. You know, you have less commercial banks, foreign central banks, you have more households and hedge funds you know, involved in the treasury market. So it's kind of interesting that they brought that up today. Mike did call it a meme stock by the way early. Yeah, I really wanted to take credit for that, but of course Liz Tracy's way ahead of me as usual. But Liz, you know, one of the sort of standard bread and butter hedge fund trades when it comes to the treasury market is something known as the basis trade, which basically looks to profit between discrepancies in the price of bond futures and the actual bonds trading in the cash market. That seems to be kicking into high gear this year, and there's a bit of a backlash to that from the government and some scrutiny about what hedge funds are doing. I know, it's created its own backlash to the backlash, Ken Griffin coming out and saying, why do they care about this? This is sort of an innocuous trade that actually helps save taxpayers money in the bond market. Walk us through the basis trade and why there is scrutiny of it right now? Yeah, in fact, you're front running another story I have covered. Helpful get it out before you do. But yeah, it's been interesting. Like you said, we've had the FED, the BIS, A lot of regulators say hey, we'll worry the side of the size of this basis trade is gotten as jig as it was like in March twenty twenty, and we know what happened then. But yeah, normally this is kind of like you say, picking pennies up under steamroller. You're shorting the futures, you're buying the cash. If you take it to you know, to expiration of the futures, they should converge and where they see some discrepancies, some price discrepancies, that's why you'll do that trade. Where the risk comes in is that most of that is done using leverage, meaning using the repo market to finance the treasury side. So you have the risk that's what happened in like twenty nineteen, that repo rates go crazy for whatever reason and you just can't keep funding this trade. On the flip side when volatility picks up, as you know in futures, you tend to get margin calls. It's just part of the metrics. And so if you started getting margin calls on the short side, so you know, things can just go awry on both sides and all of a sudden, you know you just can't keep in this trade. Then there's a mass exit. That's the way that there's a problem when everyone's running on the same way, right and no one can get out. And remember Mike, in twenty twenty, we had people saying, hey, I had a good trade, I couldn't even get out of that because there's just no liquidity, right. Well, that's what I wanted to ask. Don't we want it to be a little bit of a sleepy market that you know, foreign central banks and the Fed and others you know, use and can count on to be kind of trade a certain way. I mean, don't we to some extent they need to care about the composition of buyers or are we just glad that there are buyers in this market. We do care about the composition for sure, and obviously, like just to give perspective, So those big traditional buyers, including the FED, commercial banks, foreign buyers used to count for seventy five percent of the ownership of the treasury market. That number now is fifty five percent. So this is a very big drop. And speaking to different experts who've been following this for a year, a lot of people saying that in a case where there's a little like a slightly bigger shock, probably there will be very sharp moves, and the market is more fragile to those moves that and it was in the past because obviously hedge funds are a big part. They're very price sensitive, but mutual are also growing fast, pension funds are growing fast. They're not necessarily moving as fast as hedge funds obviously, but are sensitive to macro events. So all those different participants are a lot more likely to react on who knows the next banking news or oil prices or any of those little things. But hedge funds have always been a part of this market, right, it is now there a bigger part we know, percentage wise. Yeah, they have tripled in the past year. So currently they own two point three trillion, which is close to ten percent of the treasury market. Which makes me wonder if he gets sleepy again, Mike, do they just run in the other direction right to make money? Yeah, and it makes me You know, the dirty word in macroland is are you a tourist in this market? Yeah? Are you really a macro fund who's used to this trade and knows what to do? Or are you taking riskue you're an equity manager, you know. I've seen a few headlines out this week Bill Ackman with shortening treasuries, he's changed his mind. He's now covering that shere Stan, Truck and Miller are a very wealth known hedge fund manager used to work with George Sourez without saying he's very bullish treasuries. So is that at least the tourist sort of mentality. Does it seem like the consensus is we've seen the peak and yields, it's now time to back up the truck and start going along the treasury market? Do you think? I think the peak is for sure, very important, but it's also very important that for a very long time it was the direction of trouble was very sure. And obviously like the Fed is likely to continue rowing off its bounce sheet, so them being a smaller portion of it guarantees more volatility, whether those traits are whether short bonds will still be a successful trade. Obviously this is this is going back to the debate where we've seen the peak, but the fact that they're more say realty value trades or or you know, basis traits or things where you can exploit that volatility stace. No matter whether we've reached dot peakids I wonder too, Liz, come on back in. I mean what you make for someoney who's also followed this, you know for a long time in terms of the bond market and treasury trade to see a greater role of hedge funds. I do wonder, listen. They love volatility, right, they want things to move. That's how you make money and quickly for investors. But I do wonder does that potentially, you know, or could it spell trouble? We always talk about right, these changing rate environments, and you know, as the tide goes out, like we get to see all the problems and we you know, could it create some kind of crisis many or otherwise in the future. Well, I have to say, and I wouldn't be doing a good service. And maybe Treasury Department will still talk to me if I do mention that. John Josh Frost, to the Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets, said publicly in a press conference. Listen, we still have a very diverse buyer base. We're not lying on any one type of investor or group of investors. So they're saying, hey, we're doing fine. But to your point, Carol, I think that is why regulators worry like they're zoning in on leverage of things, but you don't want a massive positioning and with one group of investors, who if they go the other way, you just create this groundswell of movement and they take everyone else out in the process. So I think that's the risk when any trade gets too big, especially when it's leveraged, that's a problem. But like I said, Treasury saying, we're okay, we're looking at all this, but we still have enough folks that want to buy our stuff that we're not concerned. But like, who knows well to see what happens for now? How? Yeah? Yeah, Well, let's I wonder you know that that expression crowded trade comes to mind with a story like this. I mean, is there enough diversity in sort of the trades going on or is there a risk of crowding in certain trades, especially you know when you look at how the yield curve is really steepened pretty aggressively in the last couple month, you know, is that potentially a crowded trade or you know, are there any pockets of crowded trades we should think about in this market right now? Well? I would say I think the biggest one is the basis, even though some people argue there's reasons it's not as big, But I keep saying, like Denisa says, it's this debate have yields peaked and that I think people keep getting burned, you know. I mean, we've seen a massive fall today, but that yields have peaked, let me just load up, bring up the truck and buy them, and then yields go up again. And so I think that's where the risk is that people are trying to just can't seem to time this market right, you know. So that's creating the extra volatility, not just from the hedge funds but just regular macro funds, et cetera, thinking it's time now. Maybe they're okay in the long run because this will come back. But I think that's the risk that people just can't seem to get a clarity for sure where rates are going. Yeah, right, exactly. The crystal ball is really muddy right now, Deniza. Just to bring it back to how you guys kick off this story the founder of long Tail Alpha and talking to him, does it feel like it's a trade he plans to be in for a long time or is it something he's like, Yeah, this is maybe a one or two your thing or I don't know. Yeah, I think this is not including the story. But he actually said that probably the best time for this trade is yet to come. As cliche as that is, but this is something we've also heard. We talked to people, of course, I mean, what else could he say, But we also talk to people like who are selling trading algorithms and who very you know, have a very good perception where the basis trade is growing, and they're saying that in the past three months they've seen the most demand they've seen for these type of things, and obviously they have interest in saying that this will continue to be strong. But this is this is a thing we're saying. So for sure, there are numerous players in this space that are saying that as long as there is uncertainty of peakios, as long as the FED is rowing off his bounce sheets, as long as we see that volatility, uh, there may be more appetite for those things. Feels like we could see some more volatility, guys. Thank you so much. Bloomberg News process that reporter Deniza Zakova along with Bloomberg News, she correspondent for Global Macro Markets Liz McCormick. This story in the new upcoming issue of Bloomberg Business Week, on newstands tomorrow, already on the Bloomberg and already online at Bloomberg dot Com. I'm brother Marco, the journal. Now about you. Let me drive? No no, no no, no, please going to drive, honey, please, I'll do the gravels. Let's wat I want to try it. It's good question that try. This is the drive to the clothes dot com tek we'll buy around fold it on Bloomberg Radio and a very good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Bloomberg Business Week live in our Bloomberg Interactive Broker studio, streaming on YouTube than Bloomberg Originals. It is a FED Wednesday, as you've been listening on TV and across Bloomberg channels. FED Wednesday, the first day of November, and the FED holding rates at a twenty two year high for a second straight meeting, and the FED Chief Jay Powell asking should we be hiking more? Which I feel like sets the tone. I'm Carol Masser. Tim Stanovec is off today and with us as Bloomberg's Mike Reagan, and I do feel like Mike. There was a lot of things where they He kind of continued to remind us that inflation is still elevated, and I feel like they might not be done yet. Yeah, I mean, and I don't think he said anything too new today really changed the outlook for interest rates at all. But we do have this really wild rally in the stock and the bond market right now, So I wonder you know how much of that is sort of people caught on the short end, short selling both stocks and bonds before this and now having to cover. I'm not one hundred percent convinced you can trust this as sort of the markets interpretation of what he's saying. Right you think about how they were positioning ahead of all of this and thinking it was going to be a lot more negga, Yeah, and so often, you know, we see these reactions in the market the day of a FED press conference and then wake up the next morning and wait a minute, everyone, wait twenty four hour cycle that hasn't happened before this year. It's a really good point. But we are seeing equities hold and it's pretty broad based buying. Let's get back to the markets. It is a FED Wednesday. Stocks are ralling. We've seen yields back off, and lucky for us on our drive to the close on this FED Wednesday is Amanda Gotti. She's chief investment officer at P and C Asset Management, joining us once again out there on zoom in Philadelphia. Amanda, there's a rally underway in stocks. Yields have backed off. I think Mike makes a great point that maybe some investors were caught off guard expecting a much more negative tone or negative description statement whatever from the Federal Reserve. Do you discount the trade today? Oh? Absolutely, I discount the trade. I mean, there's no question that sentiment has been pretty lousy in the last you know, four to six weeks. Yields of move rapidly higher. We think very crowded positioning at one end. So there's a scurrying around that's happening here into the close today to reposition. But I'm not sure that we learned a lot of new information. I mean, I think it's hard for me to say that Powell had his hawk costume on for Halloween. Maybe it was a little bit lighter of a tone than he has been recently. But the door is still very much open for additional tighter policy from here. So we think this rally is going to be short lived. And I know you're in Philadelphia, and I think we should make a deal not to discuss the Phillies at all during this interview. Thank you, I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah, me too. But I wonder, as October, for all the wrong reasons, I was in a hotel with the Arizona team when they lost. Uh yeah, am I wrong? Well they lost, they lost a few games in Philly, but they ended up winning the series. Hey, we're not going to talk about it, Carol, all right, Okay, still too soon now, I mean, you know, we're going to talk later in the show about sort of this wild year of volatility in the bond market. And I wonder, just as a professional in these markets, what's it like coming in every day and seeing these wild moves in the treasury market, you know, this market we were so accustomed to being quiet and sort of boring, you know, And what do you think is needed to calm it down? Well, it's a great question. It's almost an unanswerable one at the moment here. I think as investors we've been conditioned to a hashtag high volatility regime for quite some time now. I mean, think about the last three years of unprecedented challenges and return negative returns in the bond market, so we're starting to get conditioned to this. But I think at the end of the day, it's all a function of this unprecedented policy accommodation that came in at the onset of the pandemic and now this unprecedented unwinding. At the end of the day, it's just going to take a lot longer. I keep saying longer for longer. It's not higher for longer, it's longer for longer. Everything about this is just going to take longer to normalize than what investors would like. And I think it's, you know, again, kind of just hammering the same thing that I feel like Mike and I kind of agree in terms of what we got from Japwell, the risks of doing too little. They're worried about that, even though he's stressed right out of the gate, we've got a dual mandate and that eventually maybe some of this will start to work its way into the labor side of the equation. The risks of doing too little is certainly I feel like top of mind for him, absolutely, and we agree with that that's why we continue to think that the door is potentially open for some tighter policy ahead. I think the key question is whether the market has done the Fed's job for it or not. And he even acknowledged that a little bit that with the I think the market has done enough of the job for the FED at this point. I think it's done enough at the moment. I mean, think about the you know, one hundred bases points that we've seen a move here in the longer term portion of the curve. It's been a very violent move, no matter how you slice and dice it. And so I think for now we're definitely in sufficiently restrictive territory. But there's still plenty of ammo from an economic data perspective to go further here. Economic growth continues to come in pretty strong. Ism report today gave a very polar opposite story here, but US consumer is still very strong, inflation not to the long term target, So I think there is room. I think we just need to, as Pale said, let some of the lagged effects of this policy work its way through here. But we are definitely in restrictive territory for sure. Yo. I meta one of the themes this year is the yield curve, you know, the difference between yields on shorter term debt and longer term debt. And we've been living with this inverted curve for a long time where the shorter maturity debt is yielding more than the longer maturity debt. We have seen this very aggressive steepening in the last few months, and you had a really interesting point in your note to us talking about that steepening of the curve, and it's a very unique thing that's happening, this bear steepening of the curve while it's inverted. What's the takeaway from that, Well, I think it's an interesting dynamic because we of course have this inverted yield curve, it's been consistently inverted for the better part of a year plus, but we're also having this bear steepening phenomenon. And usually when you see that start to come into the equation, it's like, oh, here's the signal for something's going to crack in the backdrop. But it's actually only happened once in the last fifty years where we've had both of these dynamics in play that you don't usually see them together, and so the one time that we have in history was right before the nineteen sixty nine nineteen seventy recession began. And so one data point does not make a trend. It's not a perfect guide or predictor for what's to come next. But we do think the net effect is just a lot of pressure on high valuation stocks and the long end of the curve too. All right, we've got to run. Hey, listen, Amanda, Thank you so much, so appreciate. Amanda A. Gotti of URPNC. This is the Bloomberg Business Week podcast, available on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcast. 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Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg are the co-Founders and co-CEOs of theSkimm, a digital media company dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. Founded in 2012, theSkimm began as a daily newsletter that broke down the news, policies, and trends so that women could live smarter. Now, the company's ecosystem has grown to include the Daily Skimm, the Daily Skimm: Weekend, Skimm Money and Skimm Your Life newsletters, The SKM Report, the “9 to 5ish with theSkimm” podcast, and theSkimm mobile app, and currently has an dedicated audience of over seven million users. In this episode, we talk about how Danielle and Carly first met, where the idea for theSkimm came from, and the importance of supporting women in the workforce. Don't miss this interview where we discuss:How Carly and Danielle first thought of the idea for theSkimm, and the signs that encouraged them to go for ittheSkimm's early years and Carly and Danielle's efforts in getting the company to its first reader milestonesBecoming CEOs, creating a team, and how to be effective leadersHow to have confidence in your product or idea even when it feels like you're only hearing “no”theSkimm's State of Women report and #ShowUsYourChildcare initiative, and how it's up to companies to create policies that help support women and families Find Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin:www.theskimm.comIG: @theskimm; @carlyanddanielleLinkedIn: Danielle Wiesberg; Carly ZakinFollow Lydia:www.lydiafenet.comIG: @lydiafenetLinkedIn: Lydia Fenet
Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg are the co-Founders and co-CEOs of theSkimm, a digital media company dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. Founded in 2012, theSkimm began as a daily newsletter that broke down the news, policies, and trends so that women could live smarter. Now, the company's ecosystem has grown to include the Daily Skimm, the Daily Skimm: Weekend, Skimm Money and Skimm Your Life newsletters, The SKM Report, the “9 to 5ish with theSkimm” podcast, and theSkimm mobile app, and currently has an dedicated audience of over seven million users. In this episode, we talk about how Danielle and Carly first met, where the idea for theSkimm came from, and the importance of supporting women in the workforce. Don't miss this interview where we discuss: How Carly and Danielle first thought of the idea for theSkimm, and the signs that encouraged them to go for it theSkimm's early years and Carly and Danielle's efforts in getting the company to its first reader milestones Becoming CEOs, creating a team, and how to be effective leaders How to have confidence in your product or idea even when it feels like you're only hearing “no” theSkimm's State of Women report and #ShowUsYourChildcare initiative, and how it's up to companies to create policies that help support women and families Find Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin: www.theskimm.com IG: @theskimm; @carlyanddanielle LinkedIn: Danielle Wiesberg; Carly Zakin Follow Lydia: www.lydiafenet.com IG: @lydiafenet LinkedIn: Lydia Fenet Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/ClaimYourConfidencePodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/ClaimYourConfidencePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Become a Patreon for access to bonus content and to support the podcast, or buy me a (metaphorical) coffee * In this episode, I speak with Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of theSkimm - a non-partisan digital media company dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. Carly and Danielle disrupted the male-dominated media landscape and defined a new category altogether when they launched theSkimm. In the past decade, they have grown it from a daily newsletter, to an entire ecosystem of newsletters, podcasts, a mobile app and more. TheSkimm breaks down the news, trends, policies, and politics impacting women so that they can navigate their daily lives with confidence. In our conversation, Carly and Danielle talk about the problems they identified that drove them to start theSkimm, how it continues to address gaps in the male-dominated market, and advice they would give to aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders. Some topics we cover include: The gaps in the male-dominated media landscape that led Danielle and Carly to start theSkimm Challenges they faced as young, female entrepreneurs Their journey of building theSkimm from a single email newsletter to an entire ecosystem with more than 12 million skimmers The power millennial women have as a key voting block and financial decision-makers The current state of women in health, money, family, and politics - and how this challenging moment presents an opportunity for driving progress Danielle and Carly's advice for aspiring entrepreneurs And more! Transcription is available here theSkimm's State of Women report: https://www.theskimm.com/stateofwomen Changemakers: How women make change happen This is the first episode of the new Changemakers series which explores how women make change happen from those at the top helping to drive it. Each episode, we look at where we are on this long march to equality, what lies ahead, and how important you are in the fight. In this 14-episode series, we'll hear from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn, and Afghanistan's youngest ever female mayor Zarifa Ghafari, among others. Guest host Asha Dahya speaks with co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Movement Alicia Garza. — Become a Patron for access to bonus content and to support the podcast, or buy me a (metaphorical) coffee Follow us: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Tik Tok | Youtube | LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly dose of all things WOMAN We need more women's stories in the world! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share, subscribe, rate and review on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts Explore The Story of Woman book recommendations in the US and the UK - purchases support the podcast AND local bookstores
Two Dudes head to employee training at the Krusty Krab with comedy writer, Danielle Weisberg (The Simpsons, Krapopolis). Debuting in 1999, Danielle shares why these two episodes of the long-running series are standouts and how Spongebob Squarepants has influenced her comedy. Created by Stephen Hillenburg and featuring the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Carolyn Lawrence and more, slap on your Krusty Krab uniforms and dive down to Bikini Bottom with us. Follow Danielle on Twitter @danielleweisber or Instagram @danielleweisberg Follow the show
In this episode of Season 8 of The Mother Honestly Podcast, Take The Day Off, Powered by Splendid Spoon, Hosts Blessing Adesiyan is joined by Danielle Weisberg who is co-founder and co-CEO of theSkimm, a digital media company dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions and helping them live smarter. Since disrupting the media landscape a decade ago with the launch of theSkimm, Danielle and co-founder Carly Zakin have built a brand that continues to be a trusted source for a community of millions. theSkimm's first book, How to Skimm Your Life, was released in June 2019 and debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. Danielle has been featured on a number of prominent lists including: Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media, Vanity Fair's The Next Establishment, Fortune's 40 Under 40, Variety's Power of Women, and Adweek's Young Influentials, and has also been recognized by Goldman Sachs Builders and Innovator Summit as one of the most 100 Intriguing Entrepreneurs. Prior to founding theSkimm, Danielle graduated from Tufts University in 2008 before starting her career in broadcast and digital media at NBC News DC Bureau, Nightly News, Today, and MSNBC. In this episode, they discuss the powerful movement around paid leave theSkimm started with #showusyourleave with over 600 companies joining in and being transparent about their leave policies. They also talk about the very real impact that keeping women in the workforce has on the economy and the practical steps carrer men and women need to take to help them get more flexibility at work and ultimately take more time off. This podcast is in partnership with Splendid Spoon. Visit www.splendidspoon.com and join us as we #DropTheGuilt #TakeTheDayOff To become a Mother Honestly Member for only $97/yr, visit www.motherhonestly.com/membership and if you are a Company seeking support for your employees and their families, visit www.motherhonestly.com/atwork to provide real solutions at home and at work. Grab Your Copy of The Modern Workplace Report by Care.com and MH featured in Fortune, Romper, The Bump, and more. You can find Danielle here
My guest today is entrepreneur and author, Carly Zakin. Carly, along with Danielle Weisberg, co-founded theSkimm, a membership company dedicated to helping millennial women live smarter. We talk about founding the company, raising capital, and political activism during this episode. This episode is proudly sponsored by Proximity, a workspace management company that streamlines how companies […]
Hoda Kotb is a pro at a lot of things. And speaking with other incredible women is at the top of that list. In this special episode, Hoda flips the script and interviews our co-founders and co-CEOs, Danielle Weisberg & Carly Zakin, about the past ten years of theSkimm. This week, they discuss how they — as leaders — have evolved in the last decade, why being told no was important to their growth, and how theSkimm will continue to meet women where they are in the years to come. PS: Keep up with Carly and Danielle between episodes. Follow @carlyanddanielle on Instagram.
Looking for ways to stand out in your industry, but not sure where to start? Renee Mauborgne and TheSkimm founders, Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin are here to help! You'll learn how to think more creatively for your business — and when to throw out the rule book and follow your curiosity.
Welcome to a special bonus episode of 9 to 5ish with theSkimm. A few weeks ago, theSkimm's co-founders and co-CEOs Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg hosted a Back to "Normal" power panel, talking about what a return to “normal” in the workplace looks like amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We were joined by… Tina Tchen, then-president and CEO of Time's Up Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center Ai-jen Poo, co-founder and executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance And, Tami Forman, CEO of Path Forward It's no secret that women have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic: One in 10 moms with young kids quit their job — with half of them saying it was because of school or daycare closures. Gender equality in the workplace was set back more than a decade. And women were feeling burned out at faster rates. Now, as women head back into the workforce and office, it's important to make sure they're equipped with the information and tools they need to make their work-life balance real. Hit play to hear from the experts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Our guests this week are Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, the co-founders of The Skimm, an American media company that provides a subscription-only newsletter targeting how female millennials consume news. The past year and a half have been crazy for all of us in different ways, and as business owners, Danielle and Carly have had a lot of tough choices to make. Very early on in 2020 Carly was on vacation and Danielle made the decision to test out remote working with the team at The Skimm to see if it would be possible. And while a lot of people inside the company are moms and they had a lot more on their plates with kids, homeschooling, and other difficult situations, it all worked and the company was able to go fully remote (and it still is today). As Danielle shares, “I think that that has been the hardest time, is you want to give your team flexibility, you want to be empathetic for what we've all gone through. And at the same time, we want to create stability. We want the company that we've all worked so hard to create, not just to survive, but to thrive. And I think those decisions have been, you know, at the crux of kind of what the past 15 months have been like for us.” The mission behind The Skimm and how it came to be The company is now nine years old and as Carly shares, the mission statement has stayed the same since the first day. The whole purpose behind The Skimm is to make it easier to live smarter and to help, specifically millennial women, clear the weeds and cut through the noise of everything that's going on in the world. Since then they have expanded to not just focus on news, but to also address other categories in life such as how do we make money, how do we think about our health, how do we think about the purchases we need to make, how do we think about our rights, etc… Carly and Danielle believe that a new way of addressing these issues was needed because there has never before been a generation of women like the one we have now. She's been leading in paychecks and degrees, she's out earning her male counterparts, she's been getting a seat at the table, she is the household decision maker and she holds the purse strings. But she's also drowning in student debt, isn't able to afford a first home, is having children later in life, might not have social security--and on top of that we're going through a pandemic. There has never been a more important time for something like The Skimm to address these issues and to help women navigate these things in a more informed way. The challenges that come from building a company from the ground up The Skimm has some very impressive investors including Shonda Rhimes, Tyra Banks, Sara Blakely, and Mariska Hargitay. But as Carly and Danielle share, raising money for the business was the single hardest thing that they have had to do professionally. Neither of them had a business background before starting and they only had $4,000 to their name. They were told by people along the way that email is dead and the idea didn't stand a chance, that women were a niche market, they were told they couldn't do it unless they had a technical co-founder. They had a lot of obstacles along the way, but they kept pushing and they worked really hard to get great people on board. Another big learning curve for Carly and Danielle came with managing a board of directors. They knew that it was important to surround themselves with people who could help them fill in the gaps of the skills they lacked to ensure the success of the business. And while their first board meeting was very casual and they didn't have a lot to talk about, it has grown into a great resource today. They now have more frequent, planned out meetings where they discuss the business in great detail. As Carly shares, “I think part of our philosophy with the board is there shouldn't be any surprises, and we don't think you should hide things. It's about being proactive with the issues you're facing. And last year, you know, we were talking to them every week, because we didn't know what was going to happen. And we were drawing on them, not just for their expertise, but also for the fact that they sit in other boardrooms. And they're seeing these issues, not just at our meeting, but what's going on with their other companies.” How to grow your email newsletter (and is email dead?) Carly and Danielle have heard a lot of people say that email is dead over the past 9 years, but they both disagree with that statement. Email isn't dead, the problem is people mistake email as being something that it's not. Email is just a platform, it's one method of communication, and you should consider it as part of your strategy, but it can't be your only strategy. You shouldn't be just on email. When looking at their ideal customer, Carly and Danielle realized email would be part of her routine, so it is part of their strategy, but it's not the whole thing. They also utilize social media, they have a podcast, they have apps, etc… When considering whether or not to use email you have to think about what do you want to get out of it, what are you trying to put out there, and what platforms make sense for what you're trying to do. Where are your customers spending time? If you spend a lot of time and effort creating daily emails, but no one is opening them, that's not a great use of your resources. Carly and Danielle's advice for entrepreneurs and their message to women Whether you are trying to build an email strategy or a physical product Carly says their advice would be to know your audience. Who are you building this product or service for and what problem are you trying to solve? She said if you can answer those things clearer than your own mission statement, then you have something. But knowing your customer is key. Their message for women is around empathy. Everyone is going through a hard time, especially nowadays, and putting empathy first can be a game changer, it goes a long way. It doesn't change what you're going through or the resources you have, but it can be very powerful. And as we get to the point where people are returning to work employers need to show empathy to employees who may not want to go back. Carly says, “As we kind of started this conversation we talked about, you know, going back to work, we talked about the idea of the “great return” that everyone keeps talking about. And you know, at The Skimm, you know, Danielle and I are calling it “her turn” the “great her turn”, like we don't want to go back. And part of how we want to go forward to build the workplace that we want and to build the company cultures that we want to work for and to work at is to really ask for what you need. And then on the other side, if you're the employer, to respond with that sense of empathy. And so to me, they actually go hand in hand.” We frequently get asked things like: What do we use for courses and email marketing? What platform do we use to find people to join our team? What tools do we use for project and task management? Where do we host and publish podcasts and how do we transcribe them? And More. Well, we just put together the Entrepreneurs' Online Business Toolkit PDF which will give you a complete breakdown of the tools we use to run our 7-figure businesses and how we use them. Click here to grab a copy, it will be an invaluable resource in your entrepreneurial journey! Connect with us: Website: https://www.byobpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/byobpodcasting Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebyobpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebyobpodcast Newsletter: http://www.byobpodcast.com/newsletter
Have you ever wondered what it's like to build a media company in the modern age? Or perhaps what the future of content creation will look like? In today's episode of WorkSmart, Morgan chats with Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, co-founders and co-CEOs of theSkimm. They share how they grew The Skimm to one of the most influential media platforms for this generation of women, and how they thought about branding, scale, and mission at every stage of growing their business. Click here for detailed Show Notes and to download this episode's Freebie: https://morgandebaun.com/?p=4923 Click here to listen to the 9 to 5ish Podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/qcfOmZ_X?sid=WorkSmart Click here to learn more about theSkimm: https://www.theskimm.com/ Click here to connect with Carly and Danielle: https://www.instagram.com/carlyanddanielle/
Meet our revamped career podcast, 9 to 5ish with theSkimm. We're bringing you the work advice you need, from women who've been there. Every week, join the co-founders and co-CEOs of theSkimm, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, as they help you get what you want out of your career by talking to the smartest leaders they know. New episodes drop every Wednesdays, starting July 21st. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single ep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, co-founders and co-CEOs of trusted news source TheSkimm, completely changed the way millennials consume news by creating a platform that delivers digestible current content. Since its launch in 2012, TheSkimm has expanded its offerings through producing two top-rated podcasts, multiple events, countless videos, TheSkimm app, Skimm Well, and Skimm Money. Its initial product, the Daily Skimm, remains the fastest-growing newsletter on the market with over seven million subscribers. On this episode of Second Life, find out how Zakin and Weisberg's early careers in major news organizations like MSNBC, The Daily Beast, and NBC led them to disrupt traditional news media forever.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has had dire economic consequences worldwide, its impact on women has been especially harsh, setting back strides made towards gender and economic equity. Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, co-founders of TheSkimm, a digital media company aimed at millennial women, join to discuss the recent launch of SkimmU, a free online financial education series for women impacted by the pandemic. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders
This week I am joined by Danielle Weisberg. She has been a writer's assistant on The Simpsons for the last three seasons, and she recently wrote her first episode for Season 32. We talk all about production codes, what it was like to work for Conan, and plenty of other stuff.
The Skimm co-founders Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, college friends-turned news producers-turned roommates, created The Skimm as a news source that spoke to smart, busy people and gave them their news in a way that fit into their routine. Like many entrepreneurs, Carly and Danielle launched The Skimm right from their couch in 2012 when they noticed more and more people coming to them with basic questions about the daily news. What started with an (enormously popular) daily email newsletter has since expanded to include an app, podcasts and more. Carly and Danielle have raised more than $30 million in funding, most recently in a round led by Google Ventures and Spanx founder Sara Blakely. Tune into this debut (!) episode of The Partner Ship to learn about how they've scaled their startup into a bona fide media company — and how they've done so together, every step of the way.
Ashley Graham sits down with the amazing co-founders and co-CEOs behind theSkimm, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg! Carly and Danielle are two journalists turned media mavens that show no signs of slowing down. There’s a good chance you’ve heard of their newsletter — The Daily Skimm. You may even be one of their 7 million subscribers. At The Skimm, their mission is to “make it easier for millennial women to live smarter,” and they’ve accomplished that and then some. Between their newsletter, subscription services, and book “How To Skimm Your Life,” these ladies are certainly building an empire to watch. HOST: Ashley Graham GUESTS: Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Ashley Graham, Penni Thow, Scooter Braun EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Michael D. Ratner, Scott Ratner, Miranda Sherman PRODUCED BY Pretty Big Deal Productions, OBB Picture & OBB Sound CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Kelsey McWilliams, Ava Coleman DIRECTED BY: Kaliya Warren WRITER: Ava Coleman LINE PRODUCER: Jess Vogel ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Ilyssa Walker RESEARCHER: Shahnaz Mahmud EDITORS: Crystal Arnette, Lucy Tatiana Morales MAIN TITLE THEME BY: Johannes Raassina, Lefteris Ioannou POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR: Jess Vogel SOUND MIXER: James Sparber TITLE THEME PRODUCER: Johannes Raassina KEY PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Julissa Ramirez PRODUCTION SOUND: Kit Jirles ADDITIONAL SOUND RECORDIST: Deanne Williams ART DIRECTOR: Laura Miller PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Catrina Kokkoris DATA MANAGEMENT: Melissa Bueno-Werner PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: Masha Zhak, Adam Duplechain, Nick Kaufmann, Christian Guinanzaca, Guy Mueller ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION SUPPORT: Raquel Dominguez, Jennifer Spottz SPECIAL THANKS: Mina White, IMG Models, Argon Props. Adorama Rental Company, YouTube Studios, YouTube Space NY
How do you build a community that is engaged and passionate about your brand? In this episode recorded live at HYPERGROWTH San Francisco, Sammi and Sara sit down with Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, co-founders of TheSkimm (and all-around boss ladies), as they discuss how to enable your community to take action, how to measure the success of expanding channels, and how to take a “good idea” and grow it into an empire.
Released Mar 4, 2019 It's a special crossover edition of No Limits and Skimm'd from The Couch! Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg were in their mid-twenties when they quit their jobs at NBC to create theSkimm, in their New York City apartment with no plan B. What was once known as project TBD became a daily newsletter that is sent out to over 7 million subscribers and has transformed the way female millennials receive news. On this episode, co-founders and co-CEOs, Carly and Danielle discuss how they got the courage to quit their jobs at NBC to pursue entrepreneurship, what it was like to build theSkimm and they provide insight into their partnership and what to look for in a co-founder. After you listen to this episode check out Skimm'd from The Couch where Danielle and Carly interview Rebecca. Don
S4 E41: In this episode meet Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, authors of HOW TO SKIMM YOUR LIFE; Kristy Shen, co-author of QUIT LIKE A MILLIONAIRE; and Summer Rayne Oakes, author of HOW TO MAKE A PLANT LOVE YOU. With topics like making day-to-day tasks easier, learning about money, and caring for plants, these books were inspired by these women’s desire to help others. Plus, discover which author’s dream narrator is Lorelei King—the voice behind Stephanie Plum. How to Skimm Your Life by The Skimm: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/606226/how-to-skimm-your-life/ Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen, Bryce Leung and JL Collins: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592323/quit-like-a-millionaire/ How to Make a Plant Love You by Summer Rayne Oakes: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/599282/how-to-make-a-plant-love-you/
We all know knowledge is power. But the power doesn’t just come from what you know—it comes from acting on that knowledge. And for theSkimm’s Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, their mission is to give that power to millennial women and beyond, to arm them with the tools and confidence to take charge of their lives and conquer the world, and they’re doing it all through the media company they founded called theSkimm. When they left their jobs at NBC News in 2012, Carly and Danielle started a daily online newsletter from their couch. Since then, their office has grown from 2 employees to more than 100, and their handful of subscribers has ballooned to a whopping 7 million (!). Why? Because they tell hard news in a way that people can not only understand but actually want to read, and they’re making a difference. In fact, theSkimm helped register more than 200,000 new voters in the 2018 midterms, and they’ve already set their sights on the 2020 elections. Jen sat down with Carly and Danielle to talk about their rise as female CEOs running a female-led company, and the best career advice they’ve received from powerful women in their lives. And speaking of advice, theSkimm team assembled of their best nuggets of wisdom, from how to invest to how to pack jewelry for a trip, in their just-released New York Times bestselling book, How to Skimm Your Life.
Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, co-founders of theSkimm and authors of HOW TO SKIMM YOUR LIFE, started the wildly popular newsletter TheSkimm back in 2012 while they were just two roommates working from their couch. Fast-forward seven years and TheSkimm is anything but a small idea with a small team. Carly and Danielle now manage a team of 100+ people and they’re often transparent about their management challenges and they’ll be sharing their management learnings. And because we’re here for that real-talk advice, be sure to stick around till after Carly and Danielle’s teachable moment because we’ll be answering your listener questions starting with how to grow your network within your company when you work a 100% remote job. You can submit your career questions for us to answer on future episodes by leaving us a voicemail at 844-FEMAILS. Show Notes: CareerContessa.comCareer Contessa Instagram: https://bit.ly/2IOuKlX 844-FEMAILS (844- 336-2457) HOW TO SKIMM YOUR LIFE: https://bit.ly/31e0Td7 TheSkimm.com
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How did a conversation on the couch transform into a popular newsletter with over 7 million subscribers? Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, co-founders of theSkimm sacrificed sleep and financial comfort to make their daily newsletter become an empire, and their hustle paid off in huge dividends. They explain how they've fostered an intensely engaged community, what 3 key components will help you create quality content, and how to manage time and stress so you can show up and serve your audience as your best self. - Join the Passion to Profit Accelerator Course! cathyscourse.com - Sign up for Tuesday's masterclass http://bit.ly/2wHuIou -Preorder Cathy's book dontkeepyourdayjob.com/book - Get your copy of How to Skimm Your Life theskimm.com/book - Thanks Skillshare! Skillshare.com/dreamjob2 for 2 Free months - Thanks LinkedIn! Find the job meant for you at LinkedIn.com/JOBS - Thank you Experian! Boost your FICO score instantly for free Experian.com/dreamjob
Today we are joined by theSkimm co-founders, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg. In 2012, friends Carly and Danielle created this subscription based newsletter full of easy to digest news stories. The Skimm makes it easier to live a smarter life by integrating in the routines of their target audience, female millennials. In our conversation today, the four of us talk about creating culture within a growing company, starting a business with your close friend and what challenges that brings, building a team, and much more. We also talk about: Leaving their jobs to start the Skimm Deciding what to spend their money on Staying aligned with one another + letting other people in Self-care and setting boundaries The upcoming book + tour for Carly and Danielle Find more to love at almost30podcast.com! Resources: Learn more: theskimm.com Instagram: @theskimm Download: theSkimm App Listen: Daily Skimm Read: How To Skimm Your Life Upcoming Events: June 20th: Los Angeles with Bree Melanson July 27th: San Francisco with Lacy Phillips Almost 30 Retreat Sponsors: Alchemized Life Podcast | Head to avajohanna.com/podcast to learn more Honeybook | Use code ALMOST30 for 50% off the first year of Honeybook at honeybook.com FitVine Wine | FitVine is offering 10% off your first order a www.FitVineWine.com. From now until August 4th, use code ALMOST30 at checkout to redeem your discount. Plus when you order a case, shipping is included! Chosen Foods | Use code ALMOST30 for 50% off at chosenfoods.com/almost30 Buffy | Go to www.buffy.co use code ALMOST30 for $20 off SAKARA | Go to sakara.com/almost30 and use code ALMOST30 for $60 off your first order Almost 30 is edited by Crate Media
Rebecca moderates this panel with The Skimm co-founders and CEO's Danielle and Carly. They talk about the struggles of managing a team, being emotionally investing in your business and the power of asking for what you want. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/superwomen/support
1. INTRO Today is a great day because we get to chat with a guy whom we adore and revere as a close friend – Adam Japko. Adam is the CEO of Esteem Media. If you are a designer or design enthusiast, you might know of his publications Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles and New England Home Magazine. He is also the Founder of the Design Influencers Conference (formally the Design Bloggers Conference). We are talking to him today because he’s got a new trick up his sleeve – The launch of the Luxury Home Design Summit to be held on Cape Cod, Mass this May. Welcome Adam. 2. A LITTLE BACKGROUND Sidebar: One of our favorite new podcasts is Skimm’d from the Couch with Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg. We recommend that every entrepreneur listen to this podcast for inspiration and wisdom. Many times, they ask their guests to “skim” their resumes so before we dive into the Luxury Home Design Summit, Adam can you skim your resume for us? 3. LUXURY HOME DESIGN SUMMIT – MAY 19-21, CHATHAM BARS INN RESORT and SPA, CHATHAM, MA A. This unique event is focused on helping passionate and creative architects, interior design principals, landscape architects and designers, builders, contractors, showroom operators and suppliers that serve the luxury design market. You can check out more details on luxuryhomedesignsummit.com. B. All I need to see is Chatham Bars Inn as the venue and there are 18 speakers on tap like Alexa Hampton, Andrew Davis and Steve Miller and my interest is piqued. But if I wasn’t familiar with your crazy spirit Adam and all that you do with Esteem Media and other conferences, give me your pitch for this new Summit. 4. SUSTAINABILITY IN BUSINESS A. As consumer behavior changes with the digital interference of our lives, the conversation around thinking forward and breaking models is an important exercise for all businesses – not just those of us in interior design. You are so good with stories and analogies – can you drive this point home with one of your stories? 5. VERY IMPORTANT ADVICE A. You are our only friend who is the closest thing to a wine sommelier we will come to, and you’ve exposed us to a lot of great wines (even tho Joann will never be converted) – so tell us, what are your current favorite recommendations for a red, white and rose under $30/bottle?
It's a special crossover edition of No Limits and Skimm'd from The Couch! Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg were in their mid-twenties when they quit their jobs at NBC to create theSkimm, in their New York City apartment with no plan B. What was once known as project TBD became a daily newsletter that is sent out to over 7 million subscribers and has transformed the way female millennials receive news. On this episode, co-founders and co-CEOs, Carly and Danielle discuss how they got the courage to quit their jobs at NBC to pursue entrepreneurship, what it was like to build theSkimm and they provide insight into their partnership and what to look for in a co-founder. After you listen to this episode check out Skimm'd from The Couch where Danielle and Carly interview Rebecca on this week's episode. Don
The more successful you become, the harder it feels to take big risks. This week on the Brave Not Perfect podcast, Reshma talks with Danielle Weisberg & Carly Zakin, founders of a little website you might have heard of… TheSkimm. The two former news producers launched theSkimm from their couch in 2012 as a newsletter - they now have over 7 million subscribers, reaching them Monday through Friday with bite-sized news and recommendations. Hear from these two failure champions about channeling their brave 25 year old selves - the ones who quit their jobs to start their own business - and feeling secure in who they are and what they do. Be sure to follow theSkimm's daily newsletter here: theskimm.com/?r=66f6da09 and on social media at @theskimm. Carly and Danielle are sharing their own adventures (and misadventures!) on Instagram at @carlyanddanielle. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bravenotperfect/message
Our fond farewell to Dr. PM Forni, our longtime Satellite Sisters Envoy of Civility who passed away last week. We reminisce about the many thoughtful conversations we had with Dr Forni about why we should all be kinder, calmer and stronger. Here's his NYT obit. You will be inspired by his books Choosing Civility: 25 Rules Of Considerate Conduct and The Civility Solution: What To Do When People Are Rude. Plus we welcome Claire Tansey to talk about her new cookbook Uncomplicated. Lian tested the recipes at home! In Entertaining Sisters, Lian recommends Netflix movie Dumplin with Jennifer Aniston and the soon-to-be released Jennifer Lopez comedy Second Act.Want to share Satellite Sisters with your friends? Go to giftofpodcast.com and enter your email. You'll get a page you can print out and personalize with your fave podcasts (including us!) and a second page that explain HOW to listen and subscribe to podcasts. Perfect for giving to your friends in person or in their stocking! Thanks to our Satellite Sister Gretchen Rubin of the Happier podcast for creating this.Thanks for our sponsors. Please use these special urls and promo codes.CareHarry'sBrooklinen Use promo code sistersMeUndiesA complete Satellite Sisters website, archive and shop is here.HOLIDAY GIFTS: For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here.Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship"Check out Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work. On a recent episode Liz interviewed Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, best friends and co-CEO's of The Skimm. Definitely worth a listen, sisterhood.To check out the newest Satellite Sisters merch, go to our shop here.To email us, use info@satellitesisters.com
Media Mavens Who PodcastOn the 5th day of #InVinoFabPodmas your hosts give to thee... podcasts, of course! Check out two podcasts co-hosted by media mavens who share about their experiences in a startup, journalism, and the reality of all things that happen when you take a leap to create your dream job with a friend.The Skimm'ed From the CouchDescription of Pod: The Skimm's (https://www.theskimm.com/) co-founders and co-CEOs, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, started The Skimm company from a couch. “Now they're bringing it back to one, and inviting powerful female leaders to sit down and chat about everything from celebrating career wins to the worst advice they've ever been given.” Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cadence13/skimmd-from-the-couch ZigZag Podcast https://zigzagpod.com/ZigZag is “a podcast about changing the course of capitalism, journalism, and women's lives. For real.Manoush Zomorodi and Jen Poyant left their steady jobs at New York Public Radio to launch Stable Genius Productions (https://www.stableg.com/).” These women share honest, real, and conversations about their experience in launching a media company, support great journalism and inform the listeners about what it takes to start a business that involves cryptocurrency, creativity, and more on season 1 and 2 of the podcast that is produced in partnership with Civil and Radiotopia from PRX. Connect and follow their story here:https://twitter.com/zigzagpodhttps://www.instagram.com/zigzagpod/ What podcasts are bringing you joy? Who are you learning and loving lately in your ear? Tell us what you're listening to lately or what podcasts are inspiring your productive & creative self!Stay connected to the #InVinoFab Podcast: Hosts: Patrice (@profpatrice) & Laura (@laurapasquini); pronouns: she/her Twitter: https://twitter.com/invinofab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/invinofab/
Julie has thoughts on George H. W. Bush, an Urban Nana report from Brooklyn and a review of the Radio City Holiday Spectacular. Lian tests recipes from Claire Tansey's new cookbook Uncomplicated, has advice from Rancho La Puerta on how to have a zen holiday season and speculates about the job skills needed to be an "influencer" based on the Palessi/Payless switcheroo. Liz has thoughts about Neil DeGrasse Tyson and the future of #metoo. Plus, a super special behind-the-scenes report about Dick Van Dyke from the Hollywood premiere of the movie last week. In Entertaining Sisters, we talk about the movie Widows and two events that Hamilfans cannot wait for! First, the premiere on Dec 19 of Mary Poppins Returns with Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda and the great Dick Van Dyke. And the Kennedy Center Honors on Dec. 26 with a special salute to Hamilton. Thank you to today's Satellite Sisters sponsors. Please use these special urls and promo codes:FabFitFun Use promo code sistersGreen ChefAWAY Use the promo code sisters20Brooklinen Use promo code sistersTo listen to our BONUS Holiday Special with Alan Alda, go here. To listen to our interview with Maureen Kavanagh about If You Love Me, her moving memoir about living through her daughter's opioid addiction, go here. A complete Satellite Sisters website, archive and shop is here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here. We are also on Google Podcasts and NPROne. HOLIDAY GIFTS: For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here. Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship" The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TV if you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretary and PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome. Check out Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work. On a recent episode Liz interviewed Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, best friends and co-CEO's of The Skimm. Definitely worth a listen, sisterhood. To check out the newest Satellite Sisters merch, go to our shop here. To email us, use info@satellitesisters.com
Julie has thoughts on George H. W. Bush, an Urban Nana report from Brooklyn and a review of the Radio City Holiday Spectacular. Lian tests recipes from Claire Tansey's new cookbook Uncomplicated, has advice from Rancho La Puerta on how to have a zen holiday season and speculates about the job skills needed to be an "influencer" based on the Palessi/Payless switcheroo. Liz has thoughts about Neil DeGrasse Tyson and the future of #metoo. Plus, a super special behind-the-scenes report about Dick Van Dyke from the Hollywood premiere of the movie last week. In Entertaining Sisters, we talk about the movie Widows and two events that Hamilfans cannot wait for! First, the premiere on Dec 19 of Mary Poppins Returns with Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda and the great Dick Van Dyke. And the Kennedy Center Honors on Dec. 26 with a special salute to Hamilton. Thank you to today's Satellite Sisters sponsors. Please use these special urls and promo codes:FabFitFun Use promo code sistersGreen ChefAWAY Use the promo code sisters20Brooklinen Use promo code sistersTo listen to our BONUS Holiday Special with Alan Alda, go here. To listen to our interview with Maureen Kavanagh about If You Love Me, her moving memoir about living through her daughter's opioid addiction, go here. A complete Satellite Sisters website, archive and shop is here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here. We are also on Google Podcasts and NPROne. HOLIDAY GIFTS: For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here. Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship" The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TV if you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretary and PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome. Check out Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work. On a recent episode Liz interviewed Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, best friends and co-CEO's of The Skimm. Definitely worth a listen, sisterhood. To check out the newest Satellite Sisters merch, go to our shop here. To email us, use info@satellitesisters.com
Food and Entertaining Special. Welcome to our Holiday Food & Entertaining Spectacular featuring our list of Must Haves for the Season. Liz, Lian and Julie share their favorite food memories and traditions and we hear from listeners about what foods and rituals mean the most to them. Urban Nana brings the advice about finding a spot for all generations in the kitchen. And Liz has a fun game you can play at the table: Name the Top 6 Reasons People go the ER on Thanksgiving.We’d like to thank our sponsors for this episode. Please use the URLS below for offers:Thanks to our sponsors. Please use these special urls:NectarRitualRothys Use the promo code sistersGreen Chef Must Haves for the Season:Lian's Recommendations: Gnome Place Card holders from Harry & David. These heirloom quality figures are just the cutest and they have a secret. Inside of each little Gnome is a chocolate truffle. (I believe in chocolate at any point in the meal on certain days…) My kids would have loved these when they were little, a special little something on the table every year. Great gift for a new little family. Six Gnomes and two rounds of truffles. https://www.harryanddavid.com/h/gourmet-foods/kitchen-dining/32503?searchTerm=gnome%20truffle%20holders&storeIdTab=21051&catEntryId= Festive Small Plates for the Season. I’m a believer in small plates! I like to eat these things that come on small plates: appetizers; salads; desserts. And I love the way they plates can make a table look special, even if your regular china is just white. I have a Twelve Days of Christmas set that I sue from Thanksgiving to New Years Day. Below is a round-up of great plates I found that would be a festive addition at any table. Great gifts. 12 days of Christmas modern/fun from Anthropologyhttps://www.anthropologie.com/shop/twelve-days-of-christmas-canape-plates-set-of-12 !2 days From Pottery Barnhttps://www.potterybarn.com/products/twelve-days-of-christmas-salad-set/?pkey=cappetizer-salad-plates&isx=0.0.4492 Flexible non-holiday specific but festive plates from Pottery Barn in Red or Bluehttps://www.potterybarn.com/products/mezze-salad-plate-set-of-4-red/?pkey=cappetizer-salad-plates&isx=0.0.2065 Big selection at William sonomahttps://www.williams-sonoma.com/shop/tabletop-glassware-bar/tabletop-plates/appetizer-salad-dessert-plates/?cm_type=lnav Pier 1-- super cute/festive by not holiday specifichttps://www.pier1.com/spirited-ikat-appetizer-plates-set-/3605921.html?cgid=pattern_dinnerware#nav=tile&icid=cat_dining_entertaining-subcat_dinnerware-subcat_tile_pattern_dinnerware&origin=gridswatchJulie’s Recommendations:Fresh Aprons, Oven Mitts & Dishtowels! Who doesn’t love appreciate some fresh linens and kitchen accoutrements at the holidays—or any time really. It makes for a festive kitchen crew and a themed food prep and clean up. You can find Satellite Sisters aprons at our shop! Or check out the selection at Minted. I love the city specific toiles: Atlanta, Chicago, NYC, SF, Texas . www.minted.com Liz's recommendations: I don’t like to be too on the nose with my holiday décor, so I like Stuff You Don’t Totally Have to Put Away after the holidays. I’m into Gold and a red you can live with like Pomengranate, not Santa hat red. My go-to Holiday Shop is Crate & Barrel. https://www.crateandbarrel.com/holiday/For my house in Oregon, Lian gave me some Woodland Creatures from Pier 1 a few years ago. Hooper and I both like them, so I’m thinking of adding a few more this year, like this decorative Hedgehog. https://www.pier1.com/harold-the-natural-hedgehog-with-basket/3655158.html#internal-search-product&autocplt=hedge To listen to our BONUS Holiday Special with Alan Alda, go here. To listen to our interview with Maureen Kavanagh about If You Love Me, her moving memoir about living through her daughter's opioid addiction, go here. A complete Satellite Sisters website, archive and shop is here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here. We are also on Google Podcasts and NPROne. For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here. Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship" The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TV if you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretary and PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome. Check out Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work. On a recent episode Liz interviewed Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, best friends and co-CEO's of The Skimm. Definitely worth a listen, sisterhood. And thanks for subscribing. To check out the newest Satellite Sisters merch, go to our shop here.
HOLIDAY BONUS: On this Satellite Sisters Family Dynamics Special, Alan Alda visits to talk about improving family communications. Listen more. Laugh more. He shares great communication tools with us here and on his own podcast Clear + Vivid. The Satellite Sisters always say "Not every conversation will change your life, but any conversation can." This conversation with a longtime favorite Satellite Mister proves how true that is. We are grateful to him for this great pep talk. Ho Ho Ho. Ha Ha Ha. Want to learn how to to connect better with others in every area of your life? Listen to this BONUS Satellite Sisters episode, then subscribe to Satellite Sisters here on Apple Podcasts. While you are at it, subscribe to Clear + Vivid with Alan Alda here too.Thank you to today's sponsors. Please use these special urls to enjoy their Satellite Sisters offers. The New Yorker Use the promo code sistersRothys Use promo code sistersGreen ChefTo listen to our previous interview with Alan Alda, go here. To listen to our interview with Maureen Kavanagh about If You Love Me, her moving memoir about living through her daughter's opioid addiction, go here. A complete Satellite Sisters website, archive and shop is here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here. We are also on Google Podcasts and NPROne. For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here. Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship" The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TV if you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretary and PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome. Check out Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work. On a recent episode Liz interviewed Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, best friends and co-CEO's of The Skimm. Definitely worth a listen, sisterhood. And thanks for subscribing. To check out the newest Satellite Sisters merch, go to our shop here.
High energy today! Advice for Chip & Joanna Gaines on their new Magnolia TV, our #staynoisy report on women in the midterm elections, opinions on the sham process by Amazon to pick their HQ2, thoughts on taking a golden gap year and instructions on how to peel a boiled egg. You heard us right. How to peel an egg. Thank you to our sponsors. Please use these urls to take advantage of their Satellite Sisters deals.FabFitFun Use the promo code sisters Salsa Basket Use the promo code sistersCareMeUndies Our #staynoisy report: More women than ever elected to Congress and they are from many worlds. Yeah! Plus, the new Congress will be younger than ever. We think that's good news, too. You go, millennials! We salute poll workers everywhere, especially this one: Poll worker, 97, marks her 79th consecutive year working electionsBitter Business Bureau: Who do you think you are fooling, amazon? Not us. Amazon Bait + Switch. Trends from Julie:Thinking about a Golden Gap Year? Read this. Curious about Jealousy Day in Finland? Read this. Looking for very old art in Borneo? Read this. Lian's travel tips here: https://www.aarp.org/travel/travel-tips/transportation/info-11-2013/holiday-travel-tips.htmlhttps://www.smartertravel.com/10-tips-holiday-travel/https://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/holiday-travel-tipsEntertaining Sisters: Liz recommends Melissa McCarthy's new movie about forger Lee Israel called Can You Ever Forgive Me?Stay tuned for our holiday bonus episode featuring Alan Alda dropping on November 16 and our Thanksgiving Food and Entertaining Special on November 20. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here. We are also on Google Podcasts and NPROne. For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here. Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship" The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TV if you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretary and PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome. Check out Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work. On a recent episode Liz interviewed Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, best friends and co-CEO's of The Skimm. Definitely worth a listen, sisterhood. And thanks for subscribing.
Today's topics include Liz on the murder of Whitey Bulger in prison, Julie's tale of the swallowed Lego while Urban Nana was on duty and some compelling panda facts Lian wants you to know. Julie is going to tell you how to get into Harvard. Plus we recommend the new Netflix series Bodyguard, are skeptical we can pull off Martha Stewart's Thanksgiving DIY Decorative Turkey and wish Joni Mitchell a happy 75th birthday. Joni, you're the best. We are also grateful to all the Satellite Sisters and Misters who are poll workers today all over the country. We love your posts in our Facebook Group.Thanks to our podcast sponsors. Please use these special urls and codes to take advantage of their offers.Beach Body On Demand Text sisters to 303030HarrysZipRecruiterAway Use promo code sisters20 Join our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group to get in on the conversation. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @SatSisters For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here. Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship" To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here. To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here. We are also on Google Podcasts and NPROne. The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TV if you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretary and PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome. Check out Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work. On a recent episode Liz interviewed Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, best friends and co-CEO's of The Skimm. Definitely worth a listen, sisterhood. And thanks for subscribing.
So much sadness about the Pittsburgh Tree Of Life Synagogue killings. We look for ways to express kindness and find joy. Plus our monthly book club discussion: Maureen Cavanagh tells us about If You Love Me - A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Opioid Addiction. Thank you, Maureen, for your advocacy and all you do for others at Magnolia New Beginnings. You can reach Magnolia's addiction support groups on Facebook here.We have cool new Satellite Sisters products in the Satellite Sisters Shop. Use this link to get there or go to the home page of our website and click on the Stay Noisy photo of us in the upper right.Thank you to this week's sponsors. Please use these links to special urls to take advantage of their offers.Nectar SleepSalsa Basket Use promo code sistersBrooklinen Use promo code sistersRitualJoin our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group to get in on the conversation.Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @SatSistersFor great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here.Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship"To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here.To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here.We are also on Google Podcasts and NPROne.The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TVif you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretaryand PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome.Check out Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work. This week Liz interviews Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, best friends and co-CEO's of The Skimm. Definitely worth a listen, sisterhood. And thanks for subscribing.
On today's podcast, we remember the day we with spent with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the California Women's Conference hosted by Maria Shriver in 2010. Read Lian's original blog post from that day here. We are saddened to hear of Justice O'Connors Alzheimers' diagnosis. What a heartbreak. Also today, travel trends from West Texas - Julie recommends Marfa, the McDonald Observatory and Big Bend National Park. Lian wants to know what's happening in the milk aisle at her supermarket (SO many choices) and Liz has the answer from the business pages. Plus artisanal snacks on airplanes are supposed to make us happy? Really? How about more legroom?Lian will post her Poldark Random Thoughts in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group.NEW Satellite Sisters merch in our Satellite Sisters Shop! Check out our new tees, hats, hoodies, water bottles, stickers, beach towels and more. New collections for Urban Nana and Nana Camp plus classic Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters logo'd gifts.Today's Satellite Sisters sponsors. Please use these special urls:Molekule Use promo code sistersRitualRothy's Use promo code sistersThirdLoveJoin our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group to get in on the conversation.Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @SatSistersFor great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here.Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship"To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here.To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here.We are also on Google Podcasts and NPROne.The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TVif you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretaryand PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome.Check out Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work. This week Liz interviews Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, best friends and co-CEO's of The Skimm. Definitely worth a listen, sisterhood. And thanks for subscribing.
Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, co-founders of the multifaceted media company The Skimm, join us to talk about how their friendship powered them through the unpredictable early days of starting a business together, and they give us their advice on how to tell if a friendship will survive once it’s part of a business venture. Then, Liz and Rico do what they do best: help some listeners! Daphne’s boss just hired his unqualified sister and the nepotism is running the company into the ground, while Steven’s working way above his pay grade — and job title — without getting any credit or support from his supervisors. And noted business luminaries Ferris Bueller and Rico Gagliano give us some advice on how to fake sick and skip school...or work, as the case may be.To sign up for their daily newsletter, The Daily Skimm, or to check out their new podcast, visit https://www.theskimm.com/Don’t forget! We’re working on a bunch of special episodes, so if you have a question — any question at all — for either of our hosts, or if you have a NOT safe for work story, don't hesitate to send us an email. You can reach us at Safe@Wondery.com, or you can leave us a voicemail at 424-224-5711. You can also find us on Twitter — we’re @SafeFor Work — and don't forget to follow our sage hosts on Twitter, too; they're @SSLiz and @RicoGagliano.You can support this show by supporting our sponsors!Nectar - Get a 365-day risk free trial, $125 off, free shipping, and 2 free premium pillows when you purchase a mattress at NectarSleep.com/safe ZipRecruiter - Hiring with ZipRecruiter.com/SAFE is the smartest way to hire.
Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg started their business as good friends on a couch, with nothing but their laptops and a healthy dose of hustle. Today, their millennial women-focused media company theSkimm serves seven million daily subscribers, employs 70 people, and boasts more than 30,000 enthusiastic brand ambassadors. The company also just closed a round of Series C funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and a group of mainly female investors—including the likes of Shonda Rhimes, Tyra Banks, and Spanx founder Sara Blakely. Weisberg and Zakin have maintained a close friendship and strong collaboration throughout their six years in business. This dynamic forms the backbone of their company and sets the tone for daily operations, which is largely focused on supporting and empowering women. In this interview, learn about the early days of theSkimm, the power of community and connection, and how the brand monetizes its content to build a sustainable media business. The company publishes news that fits into the daily routines of its members, continually nodding to its mission statement of making it easier for people to live smarter, more connected lives. But if you ask us, these powerful founders are the smart ones, effectively proving the mantra, “We are all stronger when we work together.” Key Takeaways How and why they waited two and a half years to monetize their community of loyal followers How they monetize their content with multiple income streams to build a sustainable, well-rounded business Details of the Skimm’bassadors program and why it has grown so rapidly Zakin and Weisberg’s top tips for growing a content-based business
Boss Files with Poppy Harlow: Conversations about business, leadership and innovation
The Skimm co-founders and co-CEOs, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, have grown their company to more than 6 million newsletter subscribers today. They open up about the initial challenges they faced getting investors on board, why they feel a responsibility to educate their audience, and how they are using their platform to get more millennials to register to vote. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.
Kent sits down with theSkimm's Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg. Danielle and Carly are the co-founders of theSkimm, a media company that started as a daily newsletter but has since expanded into video and audio. Today theSkimm has an audience of over 4 million active readers. On this week's show, Kent had the opportunity to talk to Carly and Danielle about where they started, the ups and downs of raising capital and what it's like co-leading a thriving organization. To find out more about The Skimm visit: https://www.theskimm.com/ To connect with Kent Ingle: www.kentingle.com Twitter: @kengingle Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kent.ingle/
The media industry as a whole struggles to build a loyal audience for their brands. But theSkimm, which covers big national and global stories of the day, launched about six years ago with email newsletters. Now, with over 6.5 million subscribers, theSkimm is growing into a bigger brand with a loyal audience, and it all started when cofounders Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg aimed at becoming a part of people's routines. The cofounders joined us on this week's podcast.
Brit + Co founder/CEO Brit Morin and theSkimm co-founders/co-CEOs Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg talk with Recode's Jason Del Rey at the 2018 Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, Calif. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.
Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Whitney Casey, CEO of Finery.com, a "wardrobe management platform" that helps women catalog their wardrobe. The company raised $5 million of seed funding in a deal led by New Enterprise Associates. Farfetch, BBG Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, C Ventures, Halogen Ventures, Cotter Cunningham, Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin also participated in the round.
LionTree Executive in Residence Betsy Morgan sits down with Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, co-founders of theSkimm -- a newsletter-driven media company that reaches over 6 million folks daily (including Oprah, Michelle Obama and Sarah Jessica Parker to name a few). Launched in 2012 with the mission of “making it easier to be smarter” about news and current events, theSkimm has evolved into a diversified lifestyle brand, with 25,000 “Skimm’bassadors,” savvy cross-media components, an influential book club and many more real-world extensions. For more information and content from the show, follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@KindredCast). Please read before listening: www.liontree.com/podcast-notices.html
This week on the podcast: Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, co-founders and co-CEOs of the Skimm. Their core product? The Daily Skimm, a newsletter targeting millennial women that keeps you up to date on what's happening in the world. They didn't invent the daily newsletter by a long shot, but Weisberg and Zakin are working the kind of magic with it that should make every media executive in the world sit up and take notice. Here's a little context: The New York Times announced recently that it has 13 million subscriptions to its 50 newsletters. Weisberg and Zakin have 5 million subscribers who open their one newsletter multiple times per week. I caught up with Carly and Danielle at The Skimm's headquarters on 23rd Street in Manhattan, to talk about their journey as business partners and friends, the roots of their entrepreneurial drive, and today's unique challenges for women in the startup game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TheSkimm is a morning email newsletter that tells 5 million subscribers — including Oprah — the news they need to know. But it was not easy for founders Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg to get TheSkimm off the ground. The two were roommates who had a "quarter-life-crisis" and quit their jobs at NBC. Then hundreds of startup investors rejected them, and the went into credit card debt. Finally, the found success. They share their war stories and future plans on this episode of Business Insider's podcast, "Success! How I Did It" with host Alyson Shontell.
Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, co-founders of theSkimm, sit down with Today co-host Hoda Kotb to discuss how they are reimagining the idea of morning television and changing the way female millennials receive news and information. It was recorded on Jan 18, 2017 in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd Street Y.
This week, we have not one, but two guests on Girlboss Radio - Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, the Co-founders of theSkimm! TheSkimm started a daily newsletter, giving its readers all the news and info to start the day. It's since grown into an 'audience company' that has a circulation of over 4 million active readers including fans such as Oprah and Hoda Kotb. Carly and Danielle met studying abroad together in college and several years later they both found themselves working at NBC News. They became fast friends, roommates, and eventually co-founders. On the podcast, the Sophia, Carly, and Danielle discuss how the co-founders met, how Danielle and Carly engage with their Skimmbassadors, and how they've learned to manage their growing team over the years.
This week, we have not one, but two guests on Girlboss Radio - Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, the Co-founders of theSkimm! TheSkimm started a daily newsletter, giving its readers all the news and info to start the day. It's since grown into an 'audience company' that has a circulation of over 4 million active readers including fans such as Oprah and Hoda Kotb. Carly and Danielle met studying abroad together in college and several years later they both found themselves working at NBC News. They became fast friends, roommates, and eventually co-founders. On the podcast, the Sophia, Carly, and Danielle discuss how the co-founders met, how Danielle and Carly engage with their Skimmbassadors, and how they've learned to manage their growing team over the years.
We're all processing this election together. We want to create a nurturing, constructive space to do that. Please take a minute and listen to Manoush's short audio message to you, dear listener. We believe this is the beginning of a rigorous and critical conversation between us, you and your fellow listeners. So we move forward. And whoever you voted for, chances are you're still thinking about the surprise of the results. The fact that no one picks up their phone anymore meant pollsters were WAY off. The way we get our media and journalists do reporting contributed to one of the biggest political surprises in history. Donald Trump became our president. It would be weird to pretend things here in podcast land are just "business as usual." Yes, we are grappling. Sure, we're asking ourselves: "What does this election mean for the country?" But we're also asking: "What does this election mean about me? About how I live my life? About how I connect to human beings and information?" As a way to start processing all of this: we curated a list from the archive... 7 Episodes For Your Post-Election Reality There is no right way to deal with the election aftermath. It's time for me to get out of my social media echo chamber. We click on things we agree with already. Here are some concrete steps to get out of our comfort zone and expose ourselves to different people, opinions, and voices online. How can I deal with the hatred or racism in my social media feed? There's a formula for a productive conversation about tough topics. Please. Get me some Zen. Kindness would be nice too. Chade-Meng Tan, Silicon Valley's mindfulness coach, is making meditation accessible and he's got tips to incorporate it into our everyday lives. I need to rethink my information intake. Information overload. Enough said. How can I deal with the confusion I'm feeling without hiding beneath a large duvet? In a time of racial tension, how do you manage the storm of news online when paying attention is painful? Two friends find their answers. Should I have paid closer attention to the nuances of the election? We dive deep into the modern media diet with theSkimm co-founders Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, and John Herrman, media reporter at the New York Times. I need to escape to a galaxy far far away. Failed 2016 presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan (convincingly) explains why you might live forever and vote for him in 2040. Support Note to Self by becoming a member today at NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.
Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg started theSkimm — the daily email newsletter that millions of women start their morning with — by floating it on their credit cards. It wasn’t until this year that they dug their way out of debt. How did they do it, and what’s their best advice for women entrepreneurs? In Mailbag, we talk about when you may need a financial planner and how to transfer balances on your credit cards for less.
Think about where you go to find news. Podcasts? WNYC? The New York Times? Facebook? Twitter? Newsletters? Do you want us to stop asking questions? Welcome to the Attention Economy. There is fierce competition for your eyes and ears — (thank you for choosing correctly). Media companies know that a good way to find an audience is to write and speak like the people they're trying to reach. It's the reason Buzzfeed, Vice, Mashable and so many others are popular with Snake People. Identity Media is a big part of why theSkimm — a newsletter that targets Millennial women by rounding up the day's news from Kanye West to Ban Ki-moon — has over 3.5 million subscribers. You might be one of them. This week we talked to theSkimm co-founders Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg about how they go about presenting the news. Identity Media is more than just a business model, it's changing how we consume the news. To try and sort out why this "Skimm" approach to serious stories made her feel a little queasy, Manoush talked to John Herrman. He reports on the media for the New York Times. Together, Manoush and John embark on a mission to answer that age-old question: Do Justin Bieber and Hiroshima belong in the same sentence? Here's a rundown of links to supplement this week's episode: The Skimm issue that mentions President Obama's trip to Japan The New York Times article about the same trip How the Japan Times covered the same trip How Buzzfeed covered it, and then went in a different direction The Politico playbook A silly guide to generation gaps In a way, this whole conversation ties into — you guessed it — our Infomagical project. (Did you catch last week's boot camp?) How we consume media and our goals for reading the news can influence our ability to think and communicate. If you want to get in on the project, it's still around for a limited time. For more Note to Self, subscribe to Note to Self on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, I Heart Radio,Overcast, Pocket Casts, or anywhere else using our RSS feed.
Co-founders of theSkimm Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin talk with Peter Kafka about how they built up an email newsletter that gets opened by 1.5 million people, and why they want more. TheSkimm's mission is to make its readers (predominantly young, educated women) more informed and engaged with brand partners, and Weisberg and Zakin explain why email is just one tool to do that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Now, if you're someone who's always on the go, looking for a way to consume the day's top new stories in the fastest way possible, you may already be a subscriber to this or you've heard about it, but you have to check out theSkimm - one word. It's a free, daily email newsletter that goes out each morning, gives you all the important news across subject lines, and party lines. It is simple, and kind of a sassy roundup of the latest news stories with fresh editorial content catering mainly to a young female audience. It's fun to read, easy to understand, easy to explain to a friend after work at a happy hour, what's say going on in Greece or the latest in the electoral race. And I'm not only a fan, I guess you could also say I'm sort of a contributor to theSkimm. In my partnership with Chase Slate, the brand partnered with theSkimm to create some cool and interesting editorial content around financial fitness that I helped create. So I'm very proud to introduce today's guests, the co-founders of theSkimm. They are friends, Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin and you're gonna love their story. Carly and Danielle, they originally met in Rome, they were studying abroad, it was a rainy day and they were both studying in Rome, they were in college. Years later they reconnected in New York as they were both producers for NBC News - how bout that? And they not only became fast friends again, but they also became roommates and co-founded theSkimm from their living room couch. Both of them have now been included on Forbes 30 Under 30 List this year. They were honored by Goldman Sachs Builders and Innovator Summit as one of the most 100 Intriguing Entrepreneurs in 2014. Danielle is a Tufts grad; she hails from Chicago. While Carly is a New Yorker who attended the University of Pennsylvania. And what brought them together and what really sparked theSkimm, was and is their passion for news. And so these ladies are just a force to be reckoned with, and they're also really relatable. I loved talking with them.
Carly and Danielle quit their jobs at NBC News without a product and only two months worth of savings in their bank accounts. Today, they’re the founders of theSkimm, which has been called Oprah’s must-read newsletter. And Oprah’s not alone -- theSkimm has grown to over one million subscribers, and the founders are well on their way to turning news into a lifestyle brand.
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