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Mar 5, 2015 | Updated Jun 3, 2024
How Having My Daughter Tripled Blink's Business
After a series of interviews with Inc. author, Laura Garnett, published Karen Clark Cole’s story about how having a daughter had a profound impact on Blink.
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Most people think having a family will hamper success at work, but the lessons on being present and focused that I learned being a new parent had quite the opposite effect.
I tracked Blink’s revenue before my daughter: the company was growing 5-10% a year on average, and post-birth, we have grown 20-50% with a 35% average over the last six years.