How to Equip Yourself to And Others to Achieve Success and Make an Impact with Fran Maier

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today's episode, our guest is Fran Maier. She is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and fundraiser responsible for five successful business ventures. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">She's also a former co-founder of Match.com and the founder of a new company called Baby Quip. She has gone through a journey of world-changing businesses, so if you want to create a great business idea and do things differently, this episode is for you.</span></p> <p><strong>[2:05] Why should I listen to you? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You should listen to me because I am a fun conversationalist, I’d probably ask you what you’re up to and eventually get around to introducing myself as the CEO of Baby Quip and the services we render as a startup business. </span></p> <p><strong>[3:10] If you were to break down baby quip in its basics, what would it be? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Baby Quip is the largest baby gear rental and delivery service in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Australia. We are the Airbnb of baby care, and we have over 1400 people (mostly moms) who own baby gear, and they are the ones who deliver it to families who are traveling to their local area. This isn’t moms renting their extra cribs, strollers, or seats. Most of these moms are building a real inventory of strollers, car seats, cribs, toys, baby monitors, and all kinds of other things. Because of the bombs, they get a lot of gratification from serving other families who are trying to have a good vacation. Baby quip is the one who connects the parents to the providers and parents can choose among providers their destination. </span></p> <p><strong>[5:22] How long has Baby Quip been around? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We launched it in May 2016. I finished my fourth startup sometime in 2012, and between 2012 and 2016, I got on the Airbnb craze, so I bought a house in San Francisco and was renting rooms on the top floor of my house. Afterward, I went to