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Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:04 Harry Stebbings I had Jen from Rent the Runway on, and she really nailed home the drive towards profitability.
Jennifer Hyman: Rent The Runway's Journey to $1.7B IPO; Lessons from Beyoncé & Estée Lauder | E1031 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings So what was the ah-ha moment for you with Run the Runway, and what was that idea inspiration?
- ▶ 1:20 Jennifer Hyman I mean, women in their twenties and thirties, who were the primary segment we were targeting at the beginning of Rent the Runway, understood that they were going out and buying dresses to be bridesmaids and to go to holiday parties and to… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:21 Jennifer Hyman Who ascribe to this core value of everyone's a founder of Rent the Runway. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:17 Jennifer Hyman I think that the team here is, you know, 99 plus percent missionary, and that's actually been the greatest privilege of my experience leading Rent the Runway, that over the past 14 years I've worked with people that really consider… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:34 Jennifer Hyman If you want people to be ride or die intense for you at the company, which I do at Rent the Runway. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:56 Jennifer Hyman Everything about Rent the Runway is different. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:23 Jennifer Hyman And until recently, Rent the Runway is a company that has burned a lot of cash and we've been unprofitable. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:50 Jennifer Hyman The interface that that enables with ChatGPT of being able to have almost a shopping companion that you could have with Rent the Runway that can answer all of your questions, and we have all of the data to deliver into that, I think it… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:57 Jennifer Hyman The fact that every single brand that has ever started working with Rent the Runway has decided they want to continue working with Rent the Runway is really a testament to the power of our platform in the industry, to how good of a partner… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:02 Jennifer Hyman So Rent the Runway has taken the business and turned fashion into a replenishment business, similar to grocery.
- ▶ 57:13 Jennifer Hyman With the passion that he's had for decades, and that's really what I aspire to be for Rent the Runway, whether I'm, you know, working at Rent the Runway as the CEO or I'm sitting on the board, I want that level of passion and that level of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:12 Jennifer Hyman And he had seen the company grow up. 7 times in the scene
20VC: Top 3 Considerations When Evaluating Consumer Businesses Today | 700 Meetings, 70 LPs, 2 Years, What It Takes To Raise a First Time Fund| The Power of The Female Network In Action Today with Anu Duggal, Founding Partner @ Female Founders Fund
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Within their incredible portfolio is the likes of Zola, Rent the Runway, Maven Clinic, Tala, and previous guest, Rockets of Awesome.
20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- ▶ 30:32 Alex Taussig And there's actually just in my class in business school, Harvard business school, 2009, you had rent the runway, thread up cloud flare and tough mutter.