Season 2, Episode 5: ”The Plight of the Female Founder” Guests: Ali Kriegsman & Leigh Stein

On this special double-guest episode female founders Ali Kriegsman and Leigh Stein sit down with Denise to discuss their career paths and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. Ali and Leigh get real about ditching feminist politics as a religion, sexism in venture capital culture, and conflicts in female-powered online communities.

 

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About Ali Kriegsman: 

 

A recipient of "Forbes 30 Under 30" and named one of Fast Company’s "Most Creative People in Business," Ali has helped thousands of brands expand their distribution and sell in both offline and online stores all around the US and Canada through her multi-million dollar company, Bulletin. She is a salesperson, self-taught publicist, marketer, and growth strategist and has experience scaling both bootstrapped and venture-backed businesses. Her first book, How to Build a Goddamn Empire, is the no bullsh*t book on entrepreneurship you've always needed, and it is now available in both hardcover and audiobook formats. Using the questions she's most frequently asked as her guideposts, Ali writes about her experience launching and growing Bulletin directly from the trenches, and features words of triumph, failure and wisdom from 30 other women-owned businesses. The book has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine,The Today Show, and more, and is now available internationally in the UK, Australia, Finland, Denmark, South Africa, Germany and beyond. 

 

About Leigh Stein: 

 

Leigh Stein is a writer interested in what the internet is doing to our identities, relationships, and politics. Her five books include the critically acclaimed satirical novel Self Care and What to Miss When, a collection of poetry written about and during the pandemic. She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker online, Allure, ELLE, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed, The Cut, Salon, and Slate. 

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Recommended Reading: 

 

50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About The Multiverse by Karyna McGlynn

 

What To Miss When by Leigh Stein

 

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides