Babylist founder built a $500 million business
– growing up. Natalie Gordon launched Baby Registry Babylist in 2011 to serve customers like her. Former software engineer Amazonshe had her first child and began building a registry that met her needs. This led to Babylists as new parents’ destinations in the early 2010s, the registry for them was baby blue and pale pink, and there were cute cartoons they didn’t want to send to friends or family. “I was our core user,” she recalls. “I was writing all the code. I was building it for myself, so it was very easy to know what to build.”
Fourteen years later, at his 14-year-old home, Gordon is no longer a core client of the platform. Currently the registry, new parent e-commerce destination, affiliate sales powerhouse. It is profitable with annual revenues of over $500 million. luck I reported it first. Gordon tells new recruits on Babylist that they don’t have children.
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Babylist growth to become a $5 billion business depends on reaching a wider market for parents. The platform has traditionally been a place where people register to buy everything from a $29 baby bottle to a $1,399 gliding nursery chair. Two years ago, the company secured a license to operate Health Vertical. There you can order a wealth of pumps with insurance covered, Medicaid is also included. That vertical is already a $50 million business. 40% of US infants are born under Medicaid, and Babylist aims to serve 80% of its population by 2027. “We do an exceptional job of serving both audiences.”
For Gordon, this growth comes from her disgust and from fundraising, the traditional part of running the startup. “I was actually awful with fundraising,” she recalls. She has raised under $50 million over the past 14 years. “It felt like a curse. It’s a blessing now,” Gordon says. “We’ve always treated it as a business, not a startup.”
Emma Hinchliff
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Words of farewell
“I like being free. I don’t want to have a commitment.”
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