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Michelle Kennedy

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first: 2019-05-15
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“I love Pastor. I like Vietnamese. I like steak. Yeah More important than the food is the wine. Really good red Italian wine Have the best night”
2019-05-15 · The Diary of a CEO · E32 Michelle Kennedy - From Matchmaking to Motherhood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I do love her stuff, and I love her story, and I'm interested in her story with Diego. And so I think she would be amazing and fascinating. She would be number three. And number four, I'm going to bring my best mate Sophie along because I think she's a journalist. For the BBC, and I think that the thing that I find most interesting about Sophie is that she is so nosy and has brilliant questions. So she would make sure that we got all of the best information out of those women.”
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“What? I thought Pool seats. Okay, they're my two Going to go with Frida Callow. Little boy is obsessed with Frida Callow. He's got this book and he reads about her all the time. And I've got this like weird flower thing that I wore for some fancy dress. And he's always like, wear it, mummy. You'll look like Frida Callo. I don't know anything about art. I'm really ignorant about art. I just have feelings about stuff that I like. And I don't know, it's not something that I grew up around and it's like something that I actually have to try hard to understand.”
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“Changing the perception slightly and running that business and how amazing, what stories she could tell. So they're the two.”
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“Gonna have Jacqueline Kennedy because I have a friend who is just completely all knowledgeable about the Kennedy family and it really is something that I find so interesting that she's so into it and she got me into it and I watched the Natalie Portman movie and I got really into it. So I'd love to sit with her. She was a cool woman. And I think the other person I would like to have the founder of Verve Clicko, the Champagne. So her husband. Died and she was amazing and changed the label to yellow. So, you know, the label is yellow. No champagne was yellow, and she was basically this unbelievable female champion hundreds of years ago. Better check that fact, but a long time ago, and really was like at the forefront of the kind of Changing a perception, taking something that was there and loved and respected.”
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“You have to go and speak to your user base. And so even with peanut, I spoke to one woman and then every, I would always get that woman to introduce me to another woman, right? So it's not my network. So that woman would then give me the number or email address of another woman, and I'd speak to her and get her view and on and on. And what it also meant is when it came to launch peanut, I had 100 women who I could go and see the product with and say, here's what you helped me build, what do you think? They're natural ambassadors for your product, they're going to go and share the word. That was really important.”
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“And not to know, read, go read, speak to people, read about it. Like, don't be hard on yourself and prescriptive. And then be dogged and get a thick skin because you're going to need it. Some of them get rejections or you're going to get things wrong. It's okay as long as you're kind of put yourself up and get back and do it again.”
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“Exactly. And the point is, there are no limitations When I was growing up, definitely I was like the first person in my family security university and the messaging was always, you can be anything you want as long as it's a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant, or a teacher. And that was what I was presented with work hard and go and be one of those things. went with lawyer, I liked Allie McBill at the time, you're too young I think that was so prescriptive, and I never knew what the big wide world. I never knew what was out there. So it's okay to go and explore and find different things.”
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“I think my advice is speak to as many people as you can. Get information from people, learn from people, be around people. You can go into a business for a day and shadow someone and sit and watch them. And unless you're asking what they're doing, why they're doing it, most people want to tell you. Most people want to help you anyway. So just getting in and speaking to people is really important. What do you mean by tech? Tech could be engineering, tech could be product, tech could be marketing.”
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“by my I want to be remembered by Finn as someone who worked tirelessly, but played tirelessly with him too. Like, I always want him to feel like we have fun and we have serious moments too, but we go out and we do things. We went to see Matilda the musical last weekend and it was, you know, just trying to make it so that he knows that mummy works hard, but she always has time for me. Really important to me. We're reading like we're working our way through Roll Dahl at the moment. So we read a chapter of Georgia's marvelous medicine every night and it's really important to me that that's our thing. And I want him always to remember that we had our things.”
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“Totally. And does anyone want to hear that their CEO was up at 2am with the sweats because she was freaking out about, I don't know, runway? No, no one in the team needs to know that. That's my issue And so I suppose it was just finding different ways and outlets to manage that and just recognizing that it's not good to work on no sleep.”
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“I founded this company. I'm going to make it work. I'm not going to be like a nutcase, or I don't want anyone to think I'm my crazy or whatever.”
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“And that did make a big difference. Not checking my emails past 11 o'clock and, you know, turning my phone onto airplane, that made a difference. Not having a glass of wine every night, and you know, all of those, that did make a difference. So I think that's all had an impact. People don't really talk about it. And I suppose there is this element of a little bit of bravado, right?”
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“I would say it was relatively. I've never been an amazing sleeper, actually, since I had my little boy before that. I was literally that person who would sleep in a nightclub and that didn't bother me. Like since Vin, my sleep was not as great. I think the cause was anxiety. Like being new to being a founder As you said, knowing what it's like to keep the lights on, knowing how much runway you've got, what your burn is, you know, are you going to raise money again? All of those things, is the product working? Crazy things that pop into your head at 3am and make you sweat and your heart race and that can be really tough. I started using an app calm. For sleep stories to help me get to sleep, like the meditation stuff wasn't really working because I couldn't really lose my. In the meditation, my thoughts were just even louder.”
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“Insomn Really don't sleep very well. And I'm getting better But there was a period of time last year where it was unrelenting every night I was maybe sleeping for an hour or two. And it was like having a new baby. And the honest truth is not sleeping is so detrimental to your health. It is like a form of torture. And when you're trying to run a business with clarity and be visionary and yet you feel a bit like a zombie, that's really tough. And I had to do something about it because it was really getting on top of me. You can't function. And also, you look skinny and you're just don't feel like the best version of you And that was pretty tough.”
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“But I'm trying to move on from that. And next time, I'm never going to make that mistake again, right? So it's just about balance, juggle, whatever.”
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“Sorry, and a lot of kind of okay, I understand, and you know that we have to be like that. And communication, if I'm being clear about it. And vice versa, if I feel like he's not really understanding what I'm working on or going through, I'm pretty vocal about it. I think it's just accepting. We're human, right? We get stuff wrong all the time. Sometimes on the world's most amazing mom, and sometimes I'm not. And sometimes I'm killing it at work and sometimes I'm not. And that's just the way it is. And it's about getting over it and giving myself a bit of a break. I simp into school. He wasn't in fancy dress. It was a fancy dress day. I felt like the worst mom in the whole world. Finn probably hasn't thought about it since. I'm still scarred.”
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“That's so hard. I mean, it is really hard. Sometimes we're having a conversation and I'm only partially participating because in my head, I'm thinking about all the things that I need to do. A peanut related, I think it's about forgiveness, a lot of forgiveness in our house.”
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“He's really fully involved, but also because he's an amazing cheerleader and will always say, you know, keep going or doesn't matter if that one hasn't worked out. What about the next one or whatever it is? He's amazingly proud and supportive. That said, it is hard. I travel a lot. I'm away from them both. That's really tough.”
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“I'm also really fortunate for the fact that he is like the biggest team peanut supporter and like he's like our biggest stalker. He finds like weird bits of press that we didn't even know we had.”
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“That is really hard, and that again is something that no one ever really speaks about and no one really told me about. I'm really, really, really, really fortunate in that my husband is, he's a bit older than me and he has his own career in a different, totally different field, but he's really, really supportive. And I don't just mean supportive to me, I mean to our home life. He's really like 50-50 with Finn, my little boy. Everything is a shared obligation or like juggles. So tomorrow is Finn's first day at school. And I am going to drop him off and pick him up because I really want to do it. But then I have to go to Sweden for a couple of days for an investor event. And then Rit will be on. And it's his kind of over to him. And we really share that. And I'm really fortunate for that.”
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“Yeah, and you feel like you've been on it, but nothing's really changed. They're the days where I suppose I feel the most like this has been an average day. Don't mean average and kind of normal, just average in terms of”
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“Really doing a lot of data work, speaking with a team about product and priorities and that kind of thing. Today has been a bit more, I've been to investors. I've had some calls. I'm having great chat with you. I've got another, like, so it's a bit more. Random. Some days we're working on branding and marketing. So there is no average day. I suppose the days when I come home and I feel like nothing got off that list, nothing moved off that list. They're the days where it.”
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“You know yourself. I don't know if there is an average day. I mean, it really depends. Yesterday was very much like an office day and I was, you know,”
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“And that was to me really exciting. I felt so proud. It was testament to PINA and the team. And it was testament to Apple, like even knowing who we were and recognizing. Yeah, and recognizing what we were doing for women who were mothers.”
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“And Tim Cook's on stage. And there's little peanut, like there's my little face bobbing around. And then they later did that kind of conversation around peanut being the first on the meat the developer on the new app store. We were the first company they featured. We were four months old. We were genuinely I couldn't believe it. I couldn't understand that our tiny little company of five people. had created something where people at Apple knew who we were, let alone they were talking about us at the biggest event of the year for them. It was also cool because like, you know, average person in the street wasn't seeing it. It was like our peers. It was like people who were at WWDC developers, engineers like. Other geeks for want of a better word that were seeing us.”
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“No it was something far more basic than that, but I started to think, I don't want this, actually. Maybe this is not what I want. And not like raise my head above the parapet and kind of stand out and have this product and be a founder. I want to go and run someone else's business again is actually what I thought.”
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“It was someone that I had formerly worked with. And it hurt me in a way that I didn't know was possible when it comes to business. I think the reason that it felt so bad and made my day feel so low or the time feels so low is because I really wanted this person to be on the journey with me because I'd been part of a journey with them. That felt really hard.”
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“Yeah, I've had some pretty tough days, dark days. With peanut. One of them is kind of work related, but nothing to do with directly peanut. It was a personal relationship with someone who I really considered to be a friend. And it broke down in the most like dramatic and catastrophic way for reasons that I just didn't really understand. And it wasn't actually until very recently that I started to understand them and they still don't, that's gone past. But that was very, very low.”
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“But to be honest, then I moved on with our day, you know, it was one of those things that happened. Haven't thought about it since.”
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“So I remember it now it wasn't about me, it was about someone in the team Yeah, and so I remember it. I mean, I remember receiving it. I remember getting the email about it. You know, listen, we've been hacked and you're not the only one. We're really sorry. What did I think? I suppose at the time, I, you know, just being honest, I probably thought it was unprofessional. I thought that You can be quite lambasting. I think I probably would have appreciated a phone call from you at the time. I think we spoke maybe the next day, but at the time I was a bit like, huh?”
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“Exactly, and it's good for you, and it's good for them, and it's good for the business. It's much worse to think you're being kind by kind of not really telling them or digging on them a bit, but not really getting to the point And then discovering that actually you've really destroyed their confidence because that little dig that you've been delivering every day is really like buried somewhere within them. And that's no good for your business either, right? That's become more important, I think.”
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“And just culturally within peanut being a good person, being a good person doesn't mean you're weak. Being a good person doesn't mean that you're ineffectual. It just means that you are acting with good values. Those good values might be, I'm telling you that you're not doing a very good job today. That's okay, that's still good values because at least you're being open and you're acting with integrity. That's important”
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“What are the other things? Professional integrity. Never really thought about that when I was younger. Not that I didn't have it, I just didn't care. Like, what's that? And now, to me, it's everything. I want people to know that I act with integrity and I want to act with integrity. And I want to work with people who do. That is really important and has become so much more important the older I get. Because my mum used to say this weird thing of like show me your friends and I know who you are. And I think about it a lot. I think it more and more as I get older. And so that is important to me, the importance of that network. There are people that I met along my journey who I never really understood why they might be important to me later in life. And yet they are.”
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“Parts of the world that I never saw and still have never seen. So is it linked to happiness? Not happiness is linked to security. I have an obligation to have a secure home for my son and a secure future for my son. And money is linked to that security What's more tied to happiness is like the integrity of work ethic and the integrity of feeling like, yeah, I did that for us and you can do it for you and that kind of reward, I suppose. That sounds really corny. I didn't mean it to be corny, but.”
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“You know, I don't know. I didn't come from money. I worked hard. I didn't, I want to give, it's ironic. I didn't, you know, I went to school in Petersburg and now I want my son to have a better life than I did. And I want him to have more opportunity than I did. And I work hard for that. But equally I want him to understand what working hard is. And I want him to understand that, yeah, you get up at six and you grind. And that's how it feels. And some days it feels amazing and some days you're like the walking dead and that's okay. I want him to experience those things, and yet that massive contradiction of, and yet I also want you to go to a better school than I did. And I want you to have more opportunity than I did. And I want you to.”
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“Impacts me in terms of I want to work hard and I want to achieve things. It's not the motivator in terms of I want to have a nicer car because I don't know. I just feel that that's. Like quite immediate.”
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“And I certainly really have always worked hard. I've always had a tremendous work ethic because I think that's just something that I took from my kind of early career. You had to. And I earned well. Was it the thing that motivated me? No, can't be. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to step out and do this. Does the potential of having a life-changing amount of money at some point excite me? Yes, but not because I want to stop working, because maybe it will give me the opportunity to do something else. People always say, you know, what's the goal? I don't know. In 10 years time, I would like to have my own fund that invests in women, for example, because I know that that was a challenge. I'll be able to do that if I get to a point where I've exited peanut and I've made a life-changing amount of money.”
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“When I was Junior lawyer, my very first role as a junior lawyer, I was paid 17,000 pounds a year. And I felt rich. I'd gone from being a student. I felt like it was the most money in the world. I felt that anything was possible and I was a lawyer and I was earning this salary. It was only when I started to live and realize, actually, that's not going to take me so far that, you know, You start on that almost like a treadmill of the more money you have, the more you spend.”
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“No, I don't worry about that. It will be worth it because if I can just change one woman's experience of motherhood, if I can just change one woman's perspective on what it means to have this title mother. It will be a success. And so the fact that there are women meeting, connecting, not feeling lonely, not feeling isolated, not feeling like they don't really fit within the description, that's success. So no, I don't worry about that.”
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“I believe in it and that means that there are things that I can't do that I used to do. I don't go out with my friends as much as I used to. I am that boring person who considers whether they can really afford to take that one night to see their friends because the next day they've got a full day of meetings. Am I going to be on my top of my game? There are sacrifices in terms of personal relationships. It will take its toll on some of your friendships. Not all of your friends will understand that you are consumed by this thing that you're doing and that inevitably your conversation or your mind space might turn to it, that can be hard. Not everyone will be on the journey with you. That can be hard.”
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“Sacrifice, it's really interesting. No one's ever asked me that, you kn I think it's really important because you have to kind of be eyes wide open when you're going into this. It is all consuming. And it means that there will be things that for my son I might miss, or I'll go to and I might miss something for work and then feel horrendous about it. And there is that constant kind of juggling of the guilt. What do I feel more guilty about? That can be hard. But even on a more basic level sacrifice, I had a nice salary. I had a nice life and I don't have that anymore. I hustle hard and I work hard and I don't take a salary from peanut currently because I really want it to push forward.”
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“Lego or Minecraft or any of these things which are really developing their minds in kind of problem solving. But girls are doing it too. So there's just such a full spectrum of things. What we do know is this. Women led businesses which have women on their boards perform better. and they outperform because it's a diversification of what we have. Why wouldn't we want that? It's good for everyone, it's good for business, good for the economy, it's good for women. So if we know that those businesses perform better, let's get more of them.”
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“I think it's, you know, there is that Harvard study which says that man and woman go for an interview for a job. The woman is kind of has the qualifications for it. The man doesn't, the man gets the job because he goes in and he kind of talks about his potential and the woman goes in and talks about where she is right now and she talks quite factually. I think that we have to help women to feel like it's not self-promoting. It's not a bad thing even if you are self-promoting, you know, this is about opportunity, creating those opportunities, diversifying what we see at investment level, diversifying what we see at the top tables so that we know that we have mentors or role models. Getting young girls at school involved in the same things as boys so that it's not just the boys who are playing.”
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“No, I don't think so I think there are more challenges. I think there are obstacles. I think it's becoming better. I think that what's important is we keep having conversations about it. And we keep enabling women to feel able to try. On my own personal standpoint, I for a long time had a really, really big fear of failure. I still do to a certain extent. But that worry of if it all goes wrong, what will that mean about me and my capabilities? And it's only actually spending a lot of time with engineers when engineers are like, what? But failing is how you get to the right answer. What are you talking about? But you kind of start thinking, right, it doesn't matter. So, yeah, that's, I don't think it should be harder for women. I think there are obvious challenges. And I think we're having conversations trying to make it better.”
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“There are other ways to achieve things. And, you know, Andrea Badu really changed my mindset about that. And I owe him a lot in terms of challenging me to think in different ways. There were times that I despised what he had me doing. Because I didn't want to go out and door to door hawk an idea that he had. But actually it was the best learning I ever had because Learned to think about things in a different way. If everything went wrong with peanut tomorrow, would I try something else? Yeah, I think that I really strongly believe if there's something wrong or there's a problem and you want to fix it, why can't it be you? Why can't you be the person to do it? And if that's a rhetoric that I want to pass on to my son and if that's a rhetoric that I want other women to feel inspired by, then I have to stand by it.”
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“You know what I think? I never, I didn't always have this mindset. And I think it's really important to note that you can change your mindset. I trained as a lawyer and I was a corporate lawyer and I was doing a lot of M&A. And the very real fact is as a lawyer, you are trained to spot risk. And you find the risk and you do everything you can to avoid the risk. And you know yourself. It's completely the opposite when you're an entrepreneur. You see it and you do it anyway. Aware of it, but you're going to do it. It was only through time that that mindset changed where I was like, okay, I don't want to be the risk person anymore. I don't want to be that mindset.”
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“I had a, I was going to say a normal job. There was nothing normal about my previous job, actually, but I had... I worked for someone else, I worked as part of someone else's business, I created things for someone else's business, I loved every minute of it, I loved what I did. But there came a point for me and it doesn't happen to everyone, but there came a point for me where I wanted to go and try something because I had a concept and I felt that there was a market that really deserved a product and deserved something better. no one else was going to approach it in the way that I was. No one else is thinking about the dating industry and moms, you know, the two Fairly light polar extremes. No one was thinking about my thoughts about building the product or brand in the same way. And I felt like that should be me to go and try it.”
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“Oh massive, but I have to say it's a huge sweeping generalization, right? There are people that you meet all the time who won't get what you're doing, and that's fine. There are people who you'll meet. They don't care that it's that I'm a woman. They don't care that this is a product for moms. They care about the market size and business opportunity and how I'm going to tackle the problem. They're the people that you want on your side. They're the gems. And they do exist. You just have to find them. Self-doubt is something that can consume you if you don't keep it in check. And I suppose it's just having that element of what's the worst that can happen? Seriously, what's the worst that can happen? I can try and build something. People don't like it. I'll try again and I'll keep trying. But that's not for the faint-hearted.”
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“I suppose because you can only be what you can see, and if I can only see like, you know, older white males around me who are controlling the checkbook, that can make it challenging for me in terms of how do I get in there? How do I have the confidence to go and pitch what I'm saying? How do they understand the product that I'm building?”
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