Building for the circular economy and the future of shopping with Poshmark’s Manish Chandra | E1805
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 9 September 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Today’s show:
Poshmark CEO Manish Chandra joins Jason to discuss the expansion of the “Circular Economy” (2:47), consumer-to-consumer shopping (18:30), building a community with Poshmark (32:59), and much more!
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Time stamps:
(0:00) Poshmark CEO Manish Chandra joins Jason
(2:47) The expansion of the "Circular Economy" and what drives consumers towards Poshmark
(6:31) The most popular shopping categories and Poshmark’s day one vision
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(13:20) Impact of the fast fashion movement
(20:56) Global shipping and areas for optimization
(24:38) Poshmark introducing live shows
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(28:12) The social shopping space
(32:59) Important factors in building a community
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(39:20) Lessons learned from Manish’s entrepreneurial journey
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| 0:00.0 | and then on the people side by one principle that has been very core to me as an entrepreneur is |
| 0:06.0 | embracing the weirdness of every single person you meet and also embracing your weirdness which means |
| 0:11.4 | recognizing your special and your kind of unique but you're also kind of screwed up and |
| 0:15.9 | effed up like everyone else and then aligning with the person you're meeting and knowing that they |
| 0:21.6 | have strength and figuring out how to combine those strengths and admire that and that has allowed |
| 0:26.1 | me to tap into various folks you know for example in my board we get people of certainly different |
| 0:32.0 | ethnicities and colors you know I was privileged to have two black women on my board but that was |
| 0:37.3 | sort of what you can look but then when you think of their strengths with each person broad |
| 0:41.0 | there were people who had never finished college then the people who had two master's degrees |
| 0:46.1 | on the board and similarly at the employment team so tapping into everyone's uniqueness is very |
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| 1:38.4 | all right everybody welcome back to our all star summer here on this week in startups it has been |
| 1:44.2 | crazy our mesh from HubSpot was on the pod which Barton from Zillow Glassdoor and Expedia |
| 1:52.0 | Dave from MongoDB Ryan from Qualtrics and he out to buy the Utah Jazz we had a little |
| 1:57.8 | discussion about NBA teams well from whoop Mike from Zapier which makes you happier |
| 2:03.4 | man and just the train is going to keep going at the Grammarly CEO coming on I love that product |
| 2:08.9 | or a CEO once you folks are lunatics about the oral ring LinkedIn CEO |
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