EP 5 Building a Tech Business in Your 60s
If you think you’re too old to launch a business, think again.
According to a recent study, a 60-year-old startup founder is 3 times as likely to found a successful startup as a 30-year-old startup founder – and is 1.7 times as likely to found a startup that winds up in the top 0.1 percent of all companies.
At 62, our guest, Fran Maier, embodies the entrepreneurial spirit, proving that age is no barrier to innovation or success.
From setting up a frozen yogurt stand at Stanford, to shaping the online dating scene as a co-founder of Match.com, to founding, building and selling TRUSTe, and now revolutionizing the way traveling families connect with essential baby gear through BabyQuip.
Fran's story is packed with lessons on overcoming challenges, not least of which is the bias and assumptions that come from being a woman chasing venture capital in her sixties.
Her current company, BabyQuip is revolutionizing the way families travel, by connecting them to a network of local parents and grandparents providing high-quality baby gear.
Fran has kindly offered an exclusive BabyQuip discount code for our listeners – use AGE20 at checkout – woo hoo!
Learn more about Fran and BabyQuip via these links:
BabyQuip: https://www.babyquip.com/
Fran’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franmaier/
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Listeners, please remember – you have so much to give – don’t let those internalized ageist beliefs prevent you from pursuing new dreams and opportunities – no matter your age.
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Fran Maier
CEO and Founder, BabyQuip
Fran Maier is a serial entrepreneur and Super Founder with over 25 years of experience pioneering category-disrupting B2C and B2B internet businesses. Fran is widely recognized for her leadership as Co-Founder and first General Manager of the online dating service Match.com, Founder of the privacy compliance tech company TRUSTe (now TrustArc), and Founder and CEO of her current venture, BabyQuip, the #1 global baby gear rental brand. She is also known for breaking boundaries as a Latina business leader.
Since launching BabyQuip in 2016, Fran has made game-changing contributions to both the family travel industry and gig economy model with its breakthrough platform, which gives traveling families access to high-quality baby equipment rentals through proprietary technology and an independent contractor community called Quality Providers. Under her leadership, BabyQuip currently serves over 1,300 markets and maintains a network of independent gig economy entrepreneurs in the thousands. To-date, Fran has raised over $8.5M in seed funding for BabyQuip. In 2022, BabyQuip's GMV nearly doubled vs. 2021 and grew its QP network by over 60%.
Previous career highlights include establishing the first membership business model at Match.com, which drove $3 million in revenue and attracted over 500,000 subscribers, and raising more than $30 million in venture funding for TRUSTe. As a founding member of Kmart Corporation and Softbank’s former joint venture BlueLight.com, Fran drew four million subscribers to the Internet service in less than nine months.
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