[3] Following her move to San Francisco, Goldin began working for a start-up called 2Market, a spin-out of Apple pursuing a computer-based shopping idea that Steve Jobs developed.
[12] When AOL acquired Netscape in 2001, Kara decided to take a step back from this field of work and focus on raising her family.
[13] She had trouble losing the additional baby weight and came to the realization that her main problem was that she was addicted to diet-sweetened beverages, which were reinforcing her craving for high-calorie sugary foods.
[14] Goldin then took this idea and launched Hint in 2005 in San Francisco [15] as a healthy alternative to the sugary, diet-sweetened drinks she had been consuming.
[17] In the 12 years since its creation, Hint Water has become an asset of the break rooms of some of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile companies, including Google, Facebook and LinkedIn.
She created The Kara Network as a place for fellow entrepreneurs to reach out and tell their stories as well as provide some helpful insight to those who were interested in following a similar path.