Wurwand: Dermalogica paid first chemist in manufactured product royalties
Jane Wurwand · Dermalogica: Jane Wurwand · Oct 24, 2016 · at 20:44
Jane Wurwand explains how she and co-founder Raymond compensated their original formulation chemist when founding Dermalogica without sufficient capital to pay him standard fees.
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“Raymond figured out this amazing kind of way of paying him based on the first two years of manufactured products. So a percentage of The product that we manufactured, not a percentage of sales, because we wanted to make sure he was tied into the fact that if we weren't actually able to ever make this product, he wasn't going to get paid. And he agreed.”
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