Amanda Hesser: Food52 Co-Founder and CEO

<p>Amanda Hesser is responsible for the chic e-commerce and community site&nbsp;<a href="https://food52.com/" target="_blank">Food52</a>, which she launched with co-founder Merrill Stubbs in 2009. Before she struck out on her own, the foodie had a thriving career as an editor for&nbsp;<em>The</em>&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em>&nbsp;and as a cookbook author, both unexpected paths seeing as the entrepreneur studied economics and finance in college. "I had no idea really what I wanted to do, but I knew the sort of lifestyle I wanted," she tells Hillary Kerr on episode&nbsp;33 of&nbsp;<em>Second Life</em>. Here's how she made the leap from cooking to writing to running her own company.</p>