014. The Sharing Economy: Airbnb For Pets Founder On Raising $50 Million to Overnight Widow: Dog Vacay, Rover│Karine Nissim on Grief, Being A Single Mom & The Unsexy Side of Consumer Brands

Podcast: STACKED: Money, Investing & Business for Women | The Brickell Babes · Emily Dempsey

Opublikowano: 2026-06-09

Welcome back to STACKED, the show about becoming your own best asset. Today I sat down with Karine Nissim, serial entrepreneur, who studied filmmaking in Los Angeles, and built her first real company there alongside her late husband. That company was Dog Vacay, the Airbnb for pets, which raised $50 million and went on to merge with Rover. During the pandemic, she launched Shmask on her own, a shirt with a built-in mask for kids, and sold over $100,000 in a single day on the Today Show. Then Aaron passed away...