Podcast #27: Julia Pimsleur — Found in Translation
Podcast #27: Julia Pimsleur — Found in Translation
Helping women build million-dollar businesses: this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Julia Pimsleur, founder of the Little Pim foreign language-learning series and author of Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big. They discuss her career trajectory, from documentary filmmaker to nonprofit fundraiser to entrepreneur, and talk about her experiences raising venture capital — and how the specific challenges for women in the VC world led her to start teaching other female entrepreneurs.
Julia: But in fact I’m really the first entrepreneur in my family, unless you count my great grandmother Ada, who I referred to in Million Dollar Women, who ran a cigarette and candy shop on lower Broadway at the turn of the century.
Rich: Wow.
Paul: And you grew up in the city.
Julia: I did. Right here in New York.
Paul: This is the real story here, Rich.
Rich: Yeah.
Paul: This is like —
Rich: Every time we…I mean, it’s fine. My own insecurities. Talk about impostor syndrome, here we go.
Paul: Rich grew up in Bay Ridge, so he’s a little bit, like —
Rich: She doesn’t know where Bay Ridge is. Do you know where Bay Ridge is?
Julia: It’s on the N/R!
Rich: [laughter] Ouch! She threw out the train line!
Paul: Great Manhattan burn!