Karlie Kloss
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177 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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And also, you know, candidly, like there is nothing more gratifying. Even though I would not wish what happened to our family or to, you know, that responsibility on me. I would not wish that on anyone. But I am so grateful for the… The gratification and satisfaction I have been able to experience in building for myself. Yes. I am so proud of the life, career, success I have built for myself.
I am self-made. And that gives me such pride and confidence. And, you know, I make investments for myself. There is such power to that, that I want my kids to feel that.
And I think that's it. It's like, there's things that we can't control that our kids are going to, you know, be exposed to or experience. But like, there's a lot that we can control. And I think the intentionality... So any advice you have, please, I'm all yours. Like, we're kind of figuring this out in real time.
I'm going to clock that for future. Take your kids to work. I take the kids to work. No, I think that's such sage advice and I can relate to that. And I think Josh certainly as well, like he has so many stories of he was like, you know, working, cleaning up trash and working on construction sites and like joining his dad at meetings, you know, early on.
And I even went to, I mean, this was probably highly illegal, but there was like a take your daughter to work day. And like my dad worked in the emergency room. So there's like- like extreme trauma and like people. And I'm like in a lab coat at like 13 years old, totally should not have been there. And I, I loved it.
And I loved seeing my dad in that light and the sort of like, you know, you like when somebody, when you love what you do, like your kids see that and they see it and they admire it. And they, they, that is something to aspire to that feeling, no matter what it is that you do, the way that you feel when you do it, I see it for you. It gives you energy.
And by the way, I know it in myself when I am feeling that energy and when I'm not. And so I think I, what I've really tried to do is tap into like, what are the things that are not giving me that energy and that sort of state of flow and eliminating those things from my life or as much as I can.
And I think that's so important to always take stock.
Yes. And I think I'm sort of almost even evaluating again, it's only just hitting me that this is third baby will be here soon enough that I'm like, okay, what are the things that kind of no longer serve me?
I am so proud of our scholars. You should be so proud of it. It's pretty surreal. I mean, Emma, I would have never imagined that it would grow into what it is today. And I didn't really think Think about it, I guess, all that much. How did you start it? Talk to me, like, from the beginning.
Again, sort of that period of when I was... Wanted to kind of, again, evolve my life and let go of some things. And I went back to school and I walked away from Victoria's Secret. And I was really kind of soul-searching of, like... What actually does feel meaningful to me? What is intellectually stimulating? And also, sort of a moment, and this is around 20… I guess at this point, 2014.
And I had, again, felt this sort of responsibility… an opportunity with so many young women following me on social media. And I felt like I needed to do more with that or I wanted to do more. It was an opportunity to actually be impactful. So I didn't want to fully walk away from my fashion career because that was part of the power that gave me that sort of influence.
So it's like, how do I stay one foot in this world but use it in a more meaningful way, at least to me? And that's when... I went back to school. I went back to this coding boot camp called the Flatiron School. It was like a deep intensive in the sort of front end and back end of tech, both software, hardware.
The only thing I knew—so I went to a great public school. There was no comp sci. You know, we had, thank goodness, a financial literacy class. Fantastic. Which was ahead of its time, but we did not have computer science. It was still early. So I had had no exposure, but what I had had was, by way of Josh, certainly, and all the entrepreneurs I met through him—
And I was meeting, you know, Kevin Systrom was one of the co-founders of Instagram and he was, you know, a friend of mine.
I'm coming to that dinner. Oh yeah. I know all the portfolio companies. Like I know, I know things. So I'm like, I met, you know, Kevin was a good friend and it sort of clicked for me. Okay.
Instagram, which has transformed my job as a model and certainly the fashion industry and many other industries, you know, he started with an idea and he not only had this sort of business idea, but actually he, more than even a business idea. He just, he knew how to code.
He had this secret skill set of this fancy language that only certain, at the time, it felt extremely sort of out of access to anyone outside of Silicon Valley. It was this intellectual thing that only certain, primarily men. Yeah. If you knew, you knew.
And this was sort of still like early-ish days and... in a lot of sort of tech platforms. And so I was really fascinated by that. And I also loved sort of the challenge of that. I think maybe because I'm one of four daughters and I have this like sort of competitive drive of like, whatever the boys can do, we can do, I can do as well.
It does. And so I think that like, I felt like, all right, first of all, how amazing that like one person can build an idea that can transform the world.
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