Ep96: Kim Kaupe

On this episode of The Angry Millennial, we're chatting at WeWork in NYC in the offices of ZinePak, with Co-Founder, Kim Kaupe.

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Kim is an entrepreneur out of New York City + Co-Founder of ZinePak; a company of dedicated SuperFans, who’ve worked with entertainers as diverse as Katy Perry and KISS; properties ranging from Frozen to Orange Is The New Black; teams including the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets; and brands including Unilever, MillerCoors, and American Express. Kim + her partner, Brittany Hodak, have been featured in Inc.'s 35 Under 35, Forbes 30 Under 30, + Entrepreneur's Top 30 Startups to Watch.

In this episode, we chat about how we met at the Next Gen Summit earlier this year, the importance of patience when building a company from nothing, how they managed to be the only 100% self-funded company on Inc.'s 35 Under 35 List, what it was like being on Shark Tank + ultimately turning down a ~$700+ million dollar deal, how her mother is really not going to like the foul language in this interview, the current state of women-owned businesses in a report done by American Express, and more on this episode of The Angry Millennial.

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Ep90: Alex Wolf

On this episode of The Angry Millennial, we're chatting with digital anthropologist + innovation researcher, Alex Wolf.

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Alex is the CEO + founder of BossBabe, Inc. as well as being named one of the Top 100 Creative People in Business in 2016 by Fast Company.  Alex studies what makes an idea go from weird to normal, working with brands such as Bae + Shopify, and creating the fasting growing brand of business-minded millennial women in BossBabe, Inc.

In this episode, we chat about her early entrepreneur roots selling a Pókemon card to a classmate (you know, before all this Pókemon Go nonsense), what is was like growing up in Brooklyn with an Italian gay father who loved tech + Barbara Streisand in the best age for Internet tech—the early 90's, dropping out of Berkeley at 19, what I loved about the Next Gen Summit in NYC, her thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence + why non-creative jobs will be largely at risk and more on this episode of The Angry Millennial.

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