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Tang: SHEIN survey data shows only 10% throw away clothes after one use
“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.”
Tang: SHEIN is pursuing an IPO to embrace public diligence and oversight
“We wanted to embrace public diligence.”
Tang: Harris Poll shows SHEIN customers wear products longer than competitors'
“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.”
Tang: SHEIN made a mistake by neglecting regulators when entering US
“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.”
Tang: SHEIN launches styles in initial batches of 100-200 pieces
“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.”
Tang: SHEIN is expanding beyond apparel into electronics and home appliances
“So these apparel things, we do make everything, not everything, most of the things we sell. But if it's a refrigerator, if it's a whole bunch of other things and electronics, so we're kind of getting into that.”
Tang: SHEIN's Core Brand Proposition Is Choice, Not Cheapness
“We like to think our brand is selling for choices.”
Tang: SHEIN is an on-demand fashion company, not fast fashion
“I repeatedly calling us, ah, on demand fashion company, because we, you know, I think the image of fashion, Conjures up the change. If you have change, and you have too fast of a change, that kind of represents fickleness and if you change your mind before you…”
Tang: The paradox of choice only affects privileged consumers
“It's only for the people who are kind of privileged. If you're talking to very resourceful people and successful people, yes, you're right.”
Tang: Excellence in work and parenting simultaneously is nearly impossible
“Probably impossible unless you are extremely lucky. No, human being, we're not machines. We don't allocate just perfectly.”
Tang: Obsession is useful only in specific phases, not everything
“Obsession is good. In certain parts of your life, in certain period of your life, and in certain way of you doing things. But it cannot be good for everything, everything you do.”
Tang: Access to technology and education increases inequality rather than equalizing
“The ability to use the resources to acquire education, technology, all that, all of those tools becoming a, not equalizer, actually is disequalizer.”
Tang: Global business success requires operating as a local community business
“If you want your business to thrive on a global scale, you have to become a local community business.”
Tang: SHEIN does more business in rural UK than in London
“We do a lot more business in the rural areas, villages in UK than London, for example, and Paris, and the like, and America.”
Tang: All SHEIN suppliers must use SHEIN's supply chain software
“We have exclusive suppliers. We also have non-exclusive suppliers. But all of them, if you want to onboard with us, you have to be on our supply chain software platform.”
Tang: Traditional retail unsold inventory rates range from 25% to 35%
“You know, traditional thinking it would be like 25 to 35%.”
Tang: Modern fashion is driven by consumer choice, not top designers
“So the fashion business today is becoming very diverse. Well, the fashion statement itself is becoming very diversified. It's no longer just listen to a few designers say, okay, this is what You should wear it. They wanted to have their own say in it.”
Tang: Large apparel factories refuse micro-orders of 100 pieces
“Big factories won't take 100 pieces order. It's not enough.”
Donald Tang: SHEIN Operates as a Grassroots Movement via Micro-Influencers
“I think we are a grassroots business or you can call it grassroots movement company. And you know, every time you have grassroots and you would like to have some grass tops you know, that's what we've got. And they have intimate relationship with The group of …”
Donald Tang: SHEIN scales globally by automating localized product strategies
“We sell different things differently to different people in different countries. So, and then the trick obviously to automate everything.”
Tang: Getting shot at in Santa Ana built my resilience
“It was in Santa Ana, and I got shot at. But that trained me to be tough and resilient.”
Donald Tang was rejected 58 times after graduating in chemical engineering
“58 times I was turning down every single time.”
Tang: SHEIN expanded beyond Gen Z apparel to follow aging customers
“We had, ah, younger generation Gen Z as our main customers. Ah, they grew up, and then they get married, and now we have kids. They have houses, and now we have pets. Ah, and we have home goods, arts and crafts, and we have many.”
Tang: SHEIN has established a massive customer following in Saudi Arabia
“By the way, we have a huge, very, very grateful that we have a very good following in Saudi Arabia, for example.”
Tang: Making decisions continuously prevents the burden of unmade choices
“If you keep on making decisions, right or wrong, and then you will have less of a burden of unmade decisions because you don't allow that pile up.”
Donald Tang: Trying to Be Nice to Everyone Reflects Hubris and Overthinking
“You cannot be nice to everybody in the world, because, you know, now you're overthinking, or you're giving yourself too much credit.”
Donald Tang's primary mentor was a world champion bridge player
“You know, like, you know, my mentor was a champion in Well, is a world champion in bridge, and this is, you know, he's the smartest guy in the world in my dictionary, right?”