128. Create your own milestones, w/Babylist’s Natalie Gordon

Rather than pursue conventional milestones, define your own. Babylist’s founder and CEO, Natalie Gordon took baby steps to grow her e-commerce site from a 45-minute-a-day side hustle to a platform used by over 50% of new parents in the U.S. Natalie learned that as Babylist grew, her goals must grow with it. Despite wins and losses along the journey to scale, Natalie continued to play her own game and no one else’s. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com/ Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter at http://eepurl.com/dlirtX See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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