Ouidad Wise
9 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 8, 2024 by Ouidad Wise · across every show →
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Jul 8, 2024 positive
Jul 8, 2024
Wise: L'Oréal, Unilever, and Bumble and Bumble sought curl partnerships
“And then hair companies started coming after me and L'Oreal wanted me to work with them with their Garnier line and Bumble and Bumble were there. And then all of a sudden a lot of companies, Unilever I worked with. To help out with their product line in Latin …”
Jul 8, 2024
Jul 8, 2024
Ouidad: SBA provided $25,000 grant to help launch original salon
“Reagan was the president and he had just passed the law where he was allowing the SBA, which is the small business administration to grant little money for immigrant people to be able to open their businesses. And they gave us 25,000 dollars”
Jul 8, 2024 negative
Ouidad Wise: 1970s salons required curly hair to be blown straight
“That's all they knew. At the time, the media, the newscasters, all the everything, the magazines were all blonde hair blown out and straight. Maybe some were brunette. Once in a while, you get a redhead, and if somebody came in with curly hair, the first thing…”
Jul 8, 2024 neutral
Ouidad Wise banned her private equity partners from entering her salon
“And my poor partners were not allowed to set Foot in the salon. They were only allowed to be in the corporate office and whatever discussion they wanted to do was in the corporate office. No one was allowed to come into the salon. That was my domain, my kingdo…”
Jul 8, 2024 neutral
Jul 8, 2024
Ouidad Wise lived apart from her family on weekdays for 16 years
“I, in return, stayed in the city for five days and went home on the weekends. So I would get on the train early Tuesday morning, get to New York, stay in New York till Saturday after work, get on a train, and go back to Connecticut. And we did that for almost …”
Jul 8, 2024 neutral
Ouidad Wise and husband chose salon over restaurant via coin toss
“And then finally we came up with the idea. We'll flip a coin. If it's heads, It's salon. If it's sales, it is actually a restaurant, and we swore to each other we won't put our hands behind our back, cross our fingers, none of that, be really fully committed, …”