Amber Venz Box, Co-founder and President of RewardStyle: “[Find] the yin to your yang.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Valentine’s Day is coming up. And Amber Venz Box knows a thing or two about making relationships work … at work. She’s the president of RewardStyle -- the company she founded with her then-boyfriend, now-husband Baxter. Amber started out as a personal shopper. But she realized that people were buying the products she recommended on her blog on their own … and cutting her out of a commission. So in 2011, Amber and Baxter started RewardStyle. It connects brands and influencers so both sides can benefit. In 2017, they drove over a billion dollars in sales. And launched their app, which attracted a million users in just 9 months. But building her company hasn’t been easy. On the Couch, she talks to us about being an introverted leader, how to network, and what it’s like to build a business with your SO.

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0:00.0	We can talk about work and when we come home in the car we can talk about work but when you walk in the door
0:05.3	Work talks often if you have an idea that you need to share then you can either send an email or you can set up a meeting the next week
0:11.1	Wait, so are you just sitting like,
0:12.9	you can be watching TV and you get an email
0:14.6	from your husband or not?
0:16.7	So you're like, like.
0:18.0	I'm Carly Zaken.
0:19.1	I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:20.1	Welcome to Skim from the couch.
0:21.6	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:25.2	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.
0:27.9	To the rough stuff like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:33.5	We started the skim from a couch,
0:35.0	so what better place to talk it all out
0:37.2	than where it began on a couch? So please welcome Amber Vens Box to our couch.
0:48.4	Amber was born and raised in Dallas, Texas,
0:50.9	and she has always been interested in fashion and design. After college
0:54.4	Amber realized that people were visiting her blog and buying products she
0:58.1	recommended but they were buying them independently and so she was getting cut out of the commission by accident.
1:05.0	So in 2011, she started reward style with her then boyfriend, now husband Baxter Box.
1:11.5	We have a lot of questions about that dynamic. But first you should know about their business.
1:17.0	Rewards Style connects brands and influencers and allows both parties to benefit from sales, which by the way there are a lot of. In 2017
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