Kara Goldin

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Kara Goldin
Born
Kara Ellen Keenan

1967or1968(age 56–57) [1]
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Alma mater Arizona State University
OccupationBusinesswoman
Known forFounder and former CEO, Hint Water
SpouseTheo Goldin
Children4

Kara Ellen Goldin (nee Keenan; born 1967/68) is an American businesswoman. She is the founder and former CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. [2] [3] [4]

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Early life

She was born Kara Ellen Keenan, a daughter of William and Kay Keenan of Tempe, Arizona. [5] Her father worked for Con-Agra, and then for Armour & Company in Phoenix, where he retired as the general manager for distribution, and her mother worked at a local department store. [5] [6] She is the youngest of five children. [7] Goldin grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona, after moving there from Minneapolis when she was three years of age. [7]

Goldin majored in communications and minored in finance at Arizona State University, graduating in 1989. [8]

Career

After graduating in 1989 from ASU, she moved to New York City, after accepting her first job out of college at Time Inc. [9] Goldin worked in circulation at Time Inc. for three years. [10] She started out as an executive assistant and worked her way up to managing the airline circulation for the Time Inc. publications. [7] She then moved on to work in advertising sales at CNN. [3]

Following her move to San Francisco, Goldin began working for a start-up called 2Market, a spin-out of Apple pursuing a computer-based shopping idea that Steve Jobs developed. [10] She was given the position of National Sales Manager for two years until the company was bought out by AOL. [10] Goldin then began working in e-commerce for AOL as the Vice President of Shopping and E-commerce Partnerships while her husband worked for Netscape. [11] In this position she grew AOL’s e-commerce and shopping business to about a billion dollars in revenue. [12] When AOL acquired Netscape in 2001, Kara decided to take a step back from this field of work and focus on raising her family. [12] After having three children, Goldin realized that she wanted to spend her time creating and living a healthy lifestyle. [13] She had trouble losing the additional baby weight and came to the realization that her main problem was that she was addicted to diet-sweetened beverages, which were reinforcing her craving for high-calorie sugary foods. [14]

Goldin then took this idea and launched Hint in 2005 in San Francisco [15] as a healthy alternative to the sugary, diet-sweetened drinks she had been consuming. [16] Hint Water is flavored solely with natural fruit. [17] In the 12 years since its creation, Hint Water has become an asset of the break rooms of some of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile companies, including Google, Facebook and LinkedIn. [3] [18] Hint Fizz carbonated beverage was launched in 2011 and in 2017, Hint began to market sunscreen. [13] [19]

Following her work and creation of Hint, Goldin wanted to share her experiences as an entrepreneur with the world. She created The Kara Network as a place for fellow entrepreneurs to reach out and tell their stories as well as provide some helpful insight to those who were interested in following a similar path. [3] [20]

Kara’s first job was at age 14 working for a local toy store, Alphabet Toys in Scottsdale where after a few weeks, she was asked to help with buying for the entire store. [21] Kara credits this experience with launching her on the path to entrepreneurship.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

Right before she began working with CNN, Goldin met her husband, Theo Goldin, who at the time was in law school at New York University. [22] They married in 1995 at the Wrigley Mansion in Phoenix, Arizona. [5]

They moved to San Francisco when Theo graduated and they were married shortly after. [22] They have four children together. [23]

Awards and recognition

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