The former consultant who launched the ‘Airbnb of yachts’ says she got her business idea after a taking a 6-month sabbatical — and watching her brothers struggle to sell their boats

• Jaclyn Baumgarten, the CEO of Boatsetter, the largest peer-to-peer boat-sharing company in the US, was recently named to Inc.’s Female Founders 100 list.
• She founded the company in 2012 after realizing she didn’t want to keep shaping change in someone else’s business when she could run her own.
• She’s far from the only woman to up and quit her job to found a successful company.
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Jaclyn Baumgarten initially set out on a path that she viewed as “obligatory” and traditional: After graduating from college, she moved to New York City to work in strategy read more >>>

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