Birchbox, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 33Katia Beauchamp 2Matt Meeker 1Davis Smith 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Birchbox comes up
BARK: Matt Meeker
- ▶ 23:24 Matt Meeker And at that time, um, one of the hot startups in New York was Birchbox.
- ▶ 27:16 Guy Raz Did you, and I think this is around the time where you've got a, again, I mean, you mentioned Birchbox, which got Dollar Shave Club, and I mean, there's some really interesting new business models starting up.
KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin
- ▶ 1:51 Guy Raz Birchbox, for example, which did samples of personal care products, was valued at half a billion dollars at its peak. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:07 Guy Raz And this was around the time, I mean, 2011, when you had subscription boxes starting to really, not necessarily take off, but, but, I mean, Birchbox, which was one of the earlier ones, I think, launched in 2010, um, and were you looking at… 3 times in the scene
Briogeo Hair Care: Nancy Twine (2020)
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
Briogeo: Nancy Twine
Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- ▶ 45:48 Davis Smith Uh, this is an investor that she's backed, uh, Warby Parker and Away and Birchbox and, uh, Dollar Shave Club, and she believed in us, and she believed in our mission, and so she, she wrote the first check, and, uh, that was the beginning…
Birchbox: Katia Beauchamp
- ▶ 0:30 Guy Raz With Katya Beecham of Birchbox.
- ▶ 1:55 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Katya Beecham put some beauty samples into a box and made monthly subscriptions a multi-million dollar industry with Birchbox. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 Katia Beauchamp And we basically came up with the idea for Birchbox that didn't have a name within two days.
- ▶ 24:54 Guy Raz It's already, you decide you're gonna call it Birchbox. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:44 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Birchbox took off much more quickly than anyone expected, and why, to Katya, that felt less like a blessing and more like a curse.
- ▶ 34:38 Guy Raz So it's 2010, and Katya and Haley are having trouble getting angel investors to buy into their vision for Birchbox.
- ▶ 38:58 Katia Beauchamp We were funding ourselves, and as we started working more and more hours, it became clear we had to hire some people to work at Birchbox.
- ▶ 54:44 Guy Raz Um, but that year, um, there were lots of reports, and you know what I'm gonna ask you about, that you were looking to find a buyer, somebody to buy or acquire Birchbox, and you, you did not sell a company in 2017 or get acquired, uh, but… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:11 Guy Raz She's the co-founder of Birchbox. 3 times in the scene