Dubin: Razor manufacturing has high barriers due to metallurgical complexity
Michael Dubin · Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018) · Jan 5, 2026 · at 34:39
Dollar Shave Club founder Michael Dubin explains to Guy Raz why few global manufacturers are capable of producing quality razor blades.
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“There are not that many people in the world that make great razors. And you think about the science that's involved. For such an old school sort of product that's been around for a long period of time, There's an extraordinary amount of science that goes into taking, you know, raw metal, then thinning it out, then creating a blade edge, then coating a blade edge, you know, that can actually slice hair off your face and not skin off your face. There's a lot that goes into it. You can do it. People do it. And so, but it's hard. And that's why there's not that many people that do it.”
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