商界有女初長成：美國25歲以下的創(chuàng)業(yè)新星
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????家常菜女王 ????Gobble 家常菜 ????年齡：24 ????年僅24歲的加爾格名下已經(jīng)有了兩家公司。大三時她在斯坦福大學(xué)（Stanford）開辦了自己的第一家公司，一家名叫Anapata的求職網(wǎng)站。她在Anapata上花了三年時間，主要業(yè)務(wù)是把求職的學(xué)生與潛在雇主進行配對（主要是在法律行業(yè)）。2010年10月，法律服務(wù)公司LawWerx出資收購了Anapata。加爾格稱，她之所以選擇出售Anapata，是為了把精力集中在她的第二家公司Gobble上。不過現(xiàn)在她仍是Anapata的董事會成員。 ????她目前的這家公司，也就是她的第二家公司Gobble，將顧客與一個龐大的廚師網(wǎng)絡(luò)連接在一起（雖然他們的烹飪水平參差不齊），使顧客能獲得家庭自制的、可以外送的飯菜。加爾格之所以會產(chǎn)生創(chuàng)辦這個公司的念頭，是因為她自己在吃飯問題上也遭遇過難題。她說：“在Aapata剛創(chuàng)業(yè)的日子里，我的飲食習(xí)慣每況愈下?！焙髞砀改附ㄗh她在舊金山灣區(qū)找找家庭自制的飯菜，于是加爾格在Cragslist分類廣告網(wǎng)站上發(fā)布了一條廣告，希望能找到6到8美元一頓的家庭自制飯菜，而應(yīng)聘者提供給她試吃的飯菜足夠她免費吃一個月的了。 ????現(xiàn)在Gobble已經(jīng)募集了120萬美元的資金，投資者包括商務(wù)社交網(wǎng)站LinkedIn的共同創(chuàng)始人、藍籌股投資人里德?霍夫曼，他定期視察Gobble的發(fā)展情況。加爾格的團隊有6名核心員工，另外還有大量司機、廚師和配送經(jīng)理。原谷歌（Google）總部的首席大廚也把他的業(yè)務(wù)搬到了Gobble上，他每年能從Gobble上賺到的錢達9萬美元。今年5月，網(wǎng)站全面推出，目前該公司每月增長高達200%，而且它還想做得更大：Gobble計劃2012年1月將版圖擴展到美國東海岸。 |
????Ooshma Garg ????Gobble ????Age: 24 ????At just 24 years old, Garg has two ventures to her name. She started her first company, a job-search site called Anapata, during her junior year at Stanford. She spent three years working on Anapata, which matched job-seeking students with potential employers, primarily in the legal industry. In October 2010, legal services company LawWerx acquired Anapata. Garg says she sold so she could focus on Gobble, her latest venture, but she remains on the Anapata board. ????Her second and current venture, Gobble, connects customers with a network of chefs (at varying levels of expertise) to secure home-cooked, deliverable meals. Garg's interest in creating the company stemmed from her own dietary decline. "Starting [Anapata], my eating habits went down the drain," she explains. When her parents suggested she search for home-cooked meals in the Bay Area, Garg put an ad on Craigslist, asking for a home-cooked meal for six to eight dollars -- and got enough audition dishes to eat free for a month. ????Gobble has raised $1.2 million in funding, led by LinkedIn cofounder and blue-chip tech investor Reid Hoffman, who checks in on the company regularly. Garg heads a team of six core staffers and an array of drivers, chefs, and distribution managers. The former head chef at Google headquarters has moved his business to Gobble and earns as much as $90,000 a year through the site. The company has grown 200% each month since its full launch in May. And the company only aims to get bigger: Gobble plans to hit the East Coast in January 2012. |
