Gwyneth Paltrow reveals why she controversially parted ways with first Goop CEO after his mom got cancer
Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed how she ditched her first Goop CEO after his mother was diagnosed with cancer in a shocking tell-all interview.
The 52-year-old detailed her pivot from acting to business in a sit down chat with fellow entrepreneur Emma Grede on her new podcast, Aspire with Emma Grede.
At the start of the discussion, the Iron Man actress discussed her first CEO, Seb Bishop.
‘He came on board and he helped me start to think my way around how to do this and how to build a team,’ Paltrow said about Bishop.
‘He was running Project Red at the time for Bono and he was ready to kind of go back into e-commerce. We started to build a team and started to do collaborations and started to develop a supply chain and build an e-commerce engine on the site.
‘It was a slow process of us thinking through how we were going to offer this curation and offer special products to people.
‘That was kind of like phase one. It was when I was in London – very early stages of Goop.’
She continued: ‘I had another CEO and then I was going to move to LA and, unfortunately, his mother became ill with leukemia, so he couldn’t come and that’s when I moved and I really started trying to run this thing kind of by myself.’
Gwyneth Paltrow revealed in a tell-all interview that she ditched her first CEO after his mother was diagnosed with cancer
The Goop founder, 52, detailed her pivot from acting to learning how to curate a business with fellow entrepreneur Emma Grede on her new podcast, Aspire with Emma Grede
Grede chimed in, clarifying: ‘So it wasn’t like a conscious decision “I’m going to get rid of this guy and become the CEO.” That just kind of happened to you.’
DailyMail.com has reached out to Paltrow’s representative for further comment.
Despite ultimately parting ways with Bishop professionally, the actress said the pair are ‘still really close’ and she had just hosted his birthday party at her home the week before.
Paltrow’s wellness and lifestyle brand launched as a weekly email in September 2008.
It later expanded into e-commerce and now collaborates with fashion brands, launches pop-up shops, and even has a podcast and Netflix docuseries, The Goop Lab.
In recent months, the actress has been in the throes of a comparison game between Meghan Markle’s Netflix show With Love, Meghan and lifestyle brand As Ever and Paltrow’s Goop empire – sparking rumors of a clash.
Speaking on a new episode of The World’s First Podcast With Erin & Sara Foster, Paltrow was asked about a rumor that ‘you and Meghan Markle hate each other’.
She said: ‘You know what I won’t be at this point in my life? Like, I won’t be a pawn in some drummed up, you know, triangulation of women feud in order for your f***ing clickbait.
Despite ultimately parting ways with Bishop professionally, the actress said the pair are ‘still really close’ and she had just hosted his birthday party at her home the week before
‘Leave us out of it, leave us out it. Like, don’t do that. I will not stand for that.
‘I wish Meghan nothing but the best. Like, like, it’s so great what she’s doing. I’m proud of her.
‘Every woman deserves to go into anything that they want to do, like, people need to just check themselves.’
Paltrow added: ‘She lives in Montecito so I’ve seen her, I’ve hung out with her a few times. She seems really lovely. I don’t know her super well, but she seems really, really lovely.’
It comes a month after Paltrow addressed the speculation during an Instagram Q&A on March 25 after one of her 8.7 million followers asked if she was ‘comprehending the Meghan Markle beef that social media says you two have?’
