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Gloss Angeles

Behind-the-Scenes of a Brand Acquisition With Ju Rhyu of Hero Cosmetics

Gloss Angeles

Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan

Charlotte Palermino, Halsey, Sara Tan, Kirbie Johnson, Rihanna, Beauty Podcast, Arts, News, Entertainment News, Selena Gomez, Hailey Bieber, Fashion & Beauty, Beauty

4.8679 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder what it’s like to sell your beauty brand for hundreds of millions of dollars? Same. Ju Rhyu, co-founder of Hero Cosmetics, which was acquired in 2022 for $630 million, is on the pod to shed some light on the recent Naturium M&A news, what really goes down when your company is bought, and how much money founders actually walk away with. Plus, she shares which brand she thinks will make the next big exit. But first: will *NSYNC reunite at the VMA's tonight? Kirbie thinks so.


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0:00.0

Hi Kirby. Hi Sarah. Welcome to Los Angeles. Welcome glamgelinos. We hope you stay a while.

0:12.8

Do my cheekbones look higher than usual? I was going to tell you, your cheekbones and your jaw line look extremely

0:22.4

snatched. Thank you. It takes a village. It takes a lot of microcurrent Kirby Johnson. I just came back

0:28.9

from the Joanna Vargas spa on Kings, the new one. It is so beautiful. In West Hollywood. Yes, in West Hollywood. So previous to that, the spa was at

0:42.1

Sunset Tower Hotel, which is iconic. But unfortunately, it was just like in the dungeon,

0:48.6

sort of. It was dark. Yeah. There was just not enough room for everything that Joanna Vargas wants to

0:53.3

offer. There were like four

0:55.1

treatment rooms or something like that. So they have this new spot and there's 12 treatment rooms.

1:01.9

It's beautiful and sunny. The sound of birds chirping is the soundtrack. And no, truly, I was like,

1:09.8

what is that? The lovely aesthetician tina she did microcurrent with the actual

1:16.9

like spheres orbs and then she did this mask that uses i don't remember what the technology is but you

1:25.3

put it on top of like the sheet mask so it helps like penetrate

1:28.1

it really, really deeply into your skin. And then she finishes with microcurrent gloves. Yeah,

1:35.4

the microcurrent gloves, man. Oh my gosh. I wish that we could have those at home. I want to pair.

1:40.3

I would literally all day just be like this. Shawnee did them on me when I went to see her last week.

1:46.3

Oh my gosh.

1:47.0

And literally like my eye was twitching, but I was like, just give it to me, girl.

1:50.6

Keep going.

1:51.4

Yeah.

1:51.9

It's such an interesting feeling because you just can't really control what's happening,

1:57.0

but you're like, more.

1:59.2

Turn it up.

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