Dan Rattiner chats with Kathleen King, founder of Tate's Bake Shop, about her journey from creating a beloved cookie recipe on a farm to scaling the business, partnerships in the food industry, and her retirement adventures. They also discuss her children's book, 'Cookie Queen,' and the important lessons it conveys about perseverance and resilience.

Kathleen King was 11 years old when she started baking cookies to sell at her family's farm stand on Long Island. After college, she opened a small bake shop, and eventually started selling her cookies to gourmet grocery stores in Manhattan. But after twenty years of running a small business, she wanted more time for herself. She brought in two partners to grow sales, but the partnership was a disaster—and after bitter lawsuits, Kathleen was forced to start over from scratch. 18 years later, Tate's Bake Shop—the second cookie brand that she built out of the crumbs of the first—sold for $500 million. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.