THE 21 HATS PODCAST
Special Episode: He Patted My Hand and Told Me I Didn’t Know Anything About Business
In this episode of The 21 Hats Podcast, we did something a little different. Along with one of our regulars, Karen Clark Cole, CEO of Seattle-based Blink UX, I interviewed four women from EY’s Entrepreneurial Winning Women program, a leadership program started more than a decade ago after EY concluded that not enough women were competing for its annual Entrepreneur of the Year award. (Karen was a finalist for the award in 2015.) Each of the four women Karen and I spoke with had an impressive story to share.
Sherry Deutschmann explained how, in her words, she went from being a 42-year-old single mom with a high-school education to owning a debt-free business generating $40 million a year in revenue.
Lori Torres talked about how she built and why she decided to sell Parcel Pending, her package-locker business—and how she got more than $100 million for it.
Diana Lee walked us through how she managed to build her ad tech company, Constellation Agency, to $20 million in revenue and profitability without taking a single investment dollar.
And Michelle Vondrasek explained why—while she has self-funded Von Technologies thus far—she is now looking for capital.