Carrie Gross

1 appearance on the record.

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8statements → 5claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.75/5average certainty → 1/5average debate potential →

2 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Carrie argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Carrie Gross: Main Post Partners minority investment deal closed in June 2020
“About three months into the pandemic, I got a phone call from main post and like, we want back in. We figured out a way to make the deal happen. And so we got the deal done in June of 2020.”
Carrie Gross Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 46:03 Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross

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How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Carrie Gross on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Carrie Gross said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Dennis Gross Skincare founders took zero salary for 20 years
“Neither of us took a salary for 20 years.”
Carrie Gross Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 39:54 Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross
Disclosure
Carrie Gross: Selling out 30-day take-home peel kits proved the brand concept
“So between 1995 and 2000, Dennis had his clinical peel, his doctor's peel, which was the strongest, and then we went to a contract manufacturer and asked them for pads in jars, a thirty-day supply, which was sort of a go-to-market strategy that you go into the…”
Carrie Gross Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 18:16 Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Carrie Gross: Early MD Skincare never advertised, relying entirely on beauty press
“The beauty press were Dennis's patients. We never advertised. We just had articles in Elle, and Vogue, and Harper's, and”
Carrie Gross Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 21:16 Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Carrie Gross: Dennis Gross Skincare broke even around 2006 without e-commerce
“I think we hit break even around 2006, but we didn't even have an e-commerce site until 2007.”
Carrie Gross Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 32:18 Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross
Disclosure
Carrie Gross: By 2019, the profitable brand sought governance over capital
“And so, by 2018, 2019, now I'm starting to feel like, oh my god, I actually don't need capital. We're successful, we're profitable, we're making money each year, but I need A board of directors.”
Carrie Gross Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 44:02 Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross
Assertion Supported
Carrie Gross: Main Post Partners minority investment deal closed in June 2020
“About three months into the pandemic, I got a phone call from main post and like, we want back in. We figured out a way to make the deal happen. And so we got the deal done in June of 2020.”
Carrie Gross Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 46:03 Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross
Assertion Supported
Carrie Gross: The brand launched in 17 European countries in 3 months
“We actually, in 2023, launched into Sephora Europe, so I think we opened something like 17 countries in a period of, like, three months.”
Carrie Gross Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 47:09 Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross
Assertion Partly supported
Carrie Gross: MD Skincare launched in 2000 with Ritz-Carlton as initial account
“We were ready to go in 2000, and our first accounts was the Ritz Carlton, Paula Breck Day Spa.”
Carrie Gross Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 20:57 Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross Mar 24, 2025 18m
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