Kara Goldin Email Address

Co-Founder and Board Member

Hint is the brainchild of Kara Goldin, a San Francisco mother of four who wanted to stop drinking diet sodas and didn Et want her kids drinking sugary drinks. Kara couldn Et find anything that tasted good but didn Et have any calories, sugar, or diet sweeteners. Her simple solution - fruit infused Hint Water. Launched in 2005, Kara developed Hint in response to the growing number of beverages that had tons of sugar, diet sweeteners, and other additives. Hint helps people fall in love with water, and is available in many delicious flavors including Blackberry, Watermelon, Crisp Apple, Pineapple in Hint Still and Peach, Cherry, and Grapefruit in Hint Fizz. Hint Water can be found in stores all over the United States, or purchased online at www.drinkhint.com.

Kara Goldin is CEO and founder of San Francisco based hint Inc., which produces the leading unsweetened flavored waters with nothing artificial and always no sweeteners. Since its launch in April '05, hint® has received numerous accolades from national publications including “Best Flavored Water” (in Health, Men’s Health, and SELF in both 2010 and 2012), “Best Enhanced Water” (BottledWaterWorld and BevNET) and “Top 25 New Products”.Kara started hint, Inc. to make it easier for consumers to lead a healthy lifestyle. Flavored only with natural fruit, hint delivers refreshment without unnecessary additives and sweeteners. hint’s latest brand extensions include the introduction of hintfizz, a carbonated version of hint water that received the 2012 Better Homes and Gardens “Best New Product Award” as well as the 2012 Silver Stevie Award for “Best New Product or Service of the Year.” Recently, hint launched hintkick -- the first all natural unsweetened caffeinated beverage.Kara was formerly the Vice President of Shopping and E-commerce Partnerships at AOL, where she grew AOL’s shopping business from startup to more than $1 billion in revenue in less than 7 years.In 2015, Kara was selected as winner of the prestigious Marketers That Matter award for Brand Building Small Company. Kara was also selected among only 10 other women as Fortune’s 2011 “Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs,” and in 2012 as one of Ernst and Young’s “Entrepreneurial Winning Women.” She was honored with the 2012 Gold Stevie Award Winner for “Female Entrepreneur of the Year” & was listed as a “CEO to Watch in 2013” by OpenForum.com. Forbes recently named her as one of the “40 Women to Watch Over 40.” And finally, the Huffington Post named her as one of six Disruptors in business alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Kara is also an active speaker and writer. She has contributed to many top publications and sites. She is also a member of SFBay YPO.