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Donald Tang · Donald Tang: How SHEIN Got So Big So Fast - The Fastest Growing Company in History | E1208 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Sep 30, 2024 · at 44:17

Donald Tang is the Executive Chairman of SHEIN. 20VC host Harry Stebbings asks him how to successfully balance fatherhood with leading a demanding executive career.

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“Probably impossible unless you are extremely lucky. No, human being, we're not machines. We don't allocate just perfectly.”

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“We have the data to, the survey to say that's incorrect. But that doesn't mean that people don't throw it away. There are still that 10% of people, they still do.”
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“We wanted to embrace public diligence.”
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“We're profitable. We have growth.”
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“The Harris poll that we commissioned recently, the UK and the US, came back exactly that. You know, our customers wear our products longer and more often than others, other brands.”
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“Well, in the very beginning of the time that we paid more attention to the consumers, and I think to paying attention to stakeholders is a very important thing to do, and we should do it earlier and more often, and we still haven't done enough.”
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“It's not test. We actually make them, and we sell them. If you sell them well, you pump it up. If you don't sell them well, you know, you shut them down.”
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