On this episode of the playbook, I have the co-founder of Warby Parker Dave Gilboa, and he's going to tell us how losing a pair of glasses turned into a multi-billion dollar company and furthermore, how to find a partner partner and if you should have a partner. This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes,

celebrities and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and

professional playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and

in the boardroom.

I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David Melzer.

This is Dave Melcher with entrepreneurs the playbook and I have another Dave with me.

It is Dave Gilboa with Warby Parker. The looking to have similar backgrounds except for Berkeley rejected me and accepted you and when

you applied it was a lot harder to get into as well.

My business partner, Lee Steinberg, early in my career was a huge Berkeley guy.

And there's definitely a different energy

about going to a school like that,

especially when you went, being up in the Silicon Valley

and in the competitive state with Stanford trying to figure out what real

high net wealth is worth. Where did the lessons to be such a great

entrepreneur come from? Was it pre Berkeley or post Berkeley?

I think it probably starts with my parents.

And actually when I went to Berkeley,

I had no interest in business.

Both my parents are doctors.

I was 100% sure I was going to become a doctor growing up as a kid.

I was just trying to decide which kind of doctor went to Berkeley. It was a bioengineering

major, took all the pre-med classes, took the MCAT, and was kind of all set to follow in that path.

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