Shan-Lyn Ma- CEO and Co-Founder of Zola

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Shan-Lyn Ma is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zola. Shan-Lyn started her career at Yahoo!, which was a company she had dreamed of working at all her life. In 2008 she moved onto Gilt, where she started as a product manager and eventually became Senior Director of Product. She also Founded and was the GM of Gilt Taste, the food & wine division. In 2012 Shan went to Chloe + Isabel, but quickly realized that it was time for her to start her own company. Her company, Zola, launched in 2013 and quickly became the country’s fastest growing wedding registry. Today Zola carries 60,000 gifts from more than 600 different brands and it has been used by over 500,000 couples. On top of all this, Shan is an angel investor in about 15 companies including several female-founded companies. Today Shan is here to talk about her journey to becoming an entrepreneur, how to pitch to Venture Capitalists and the right way to transition your career.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Girl Boss Radio. I'm Sophia Amruso.
0:07.0	Kidding, I'm not, I'm Jericho Mandiva, the editorial director of Girl Boss and the host of that other Girl Boss radio
0:14.3	podcast self-service which is your weekly bite of self-care weird wellness astrology
0:19.1	and more. So I'm feeling in for Sophia this week while she's out in the world doing her girl bossy things
0:24.4	and I'm really excited to talk to our guest today, the CEO and founder of Zola, Shanlin Ma.
0:30.1	We'll get to do that in just a minute, but before we do, I want to remind you to check out our other amazing podcasts at Girl Boss.
0:36.0	We have my show, Self-Service, which comes out every Sunday. Our newest show, Jen Gotch is okay sometimes which comes out every Tuesday and there's also
0:45.0	lip stories are six-part podcast in partnership with Sephi. You can find all
0:49.0	these shows on Apple Podcasts or ever good podcasts are found. Success.
0:55.0	It's such a complicated idea and yet for so long we've all collectively subscribed to a single definition of the word
1:04.6	which was likely given to us by a white-haired dude somewhere in a boardroom in the
1:09.3	1960s and there's nothing wrong with that definition with the notion of climbing a corporate
1:14.3	ladder with a singular focus.
1:16.5	But it's time to make space for a few other definitions, for side hustles and well-being and
1:21.8	failing forward, and for the idea that success is a wild ride,
1:25.9	not the destination at the end of it.
1:28.6	Join me for a journey into the lives of women who are redefining success in paving the way for others with grit and
1:34.1	grace.
1:35.1	I'm Sophie Am Russo, the founder and co-founder of Zola.
1:49.0	Shanlin holds a degree in business commerce from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
1:54.2	and an MBA from Stanford University. After idolizing Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang
1:59.6	for all of her life, she found herself doing an internship at Yahoo, and later held product and marketing
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