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No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

#60: Tracy Sun - Co-Founder, Poshmark

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Tracy Sun was an aspiring neurosurgeon until an internship at a fashion startup changed everything. Today, she's the Co-founder and VP of Merchandising of Poshmark, the largest social commerce marketplace for buying and selling. Under her leadership, the company has raised nearly $160 million in funding to date. On this episode, she talks about changing her path from pre-med to fashion and tech, dealing with failure when her first startup went under, that time USPS almost shut them down and how entrepreneurs are building careers through the Poshmark app. Congratulations to our No Limits Entrepreneur of the Week: Co-Founder of Berk Boys Holdings LLC (Berk Boys Ice Cream) with her 7-year-old son Ryan, and President of R&J Advisory Group, Inc. Find out more: http://berkboys.com/ Want to be a featured NLEOTW? Know someone who should? Send your nominations to [email protected] Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! It’s easy! Click here: http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 ABOUT REBECCA JARVIS: Rebecca Jarvis is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the Chief Biz, Tech and Econ correspondent for ABC News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Rebecca, and you can hear new episodes of No Limits four days early on tune in.

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You may have heard, and if you're a loyal No Limits listener, you've definitely heard that we launched our first episode of RJ answers, where I'm taking your questions.

0:13.7

So if you want a chance to talk to me on No Limits about your career, you can send those questions to me at No Limits with RJ podcast at gmail.com.

0:22.4

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0:26.6

I read all the emails you send there, and I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

0:30.9

He wanted to shut us down because he had a binder, a really, really thick binder of all of the times that we had shipped.

0:38.2

But he had every instance of when we didn't pay enough.

0:41.5

And he's like, you owe millions of dollars of backpostage fees.

0:44.9

And we didn't have millions of dollars.

0:47.8

From ABC, it's no limits.

0:50.8

I'm Rebecca Jarvis.

0:52.0

And each week we're talking to the most bold and influential women playing at the top of their game,

0:58.2

trying to demystify success and what it really takes to get there and all the trade-offs.

1:04.4

Whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place.

1:14.7

On today's episode, a once aspiring neurosurgeon turned fashion tech guru Tracy Sun. She's the co-founder and VP of merchandising for

1:21.7

Poshmark, which is the largest social marketplace for fashion, where anyone can buy or sell

1:26.8

clothing from the convenience of their

1:28.6

phone. Now, with another $87.5 million raised, they just raised this money, their total funding

1:35.7

is nearly $160 million. So how are they going to disrupt the $2.4 trillion global fashion industry?

1:45.8

You're about to find out.

1:53.1

Tracy Sun, welcome to No Limits. Thanks for having me, Rebecca. I'm thrilled to have you here. So you're the co-founder and the vice president of merchandising for Poshmark. That's right. And you helped

1:58.3

create this company. How many years ago was it now? Oh gosh, you know, seven years, seven years ago.

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