Eternally Optimistic: Adventures in Serial Entrepreneurship with Divya Gugnani, CEO and Co-Founder of Wander Beauty [video]
Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff
Rebecca Minkoff
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Divya, welcome to my second ever video podcast because people want to see this. |
| 0:11.6 | I want to choose my lucky number. |
| 0:15.3 | Well, good. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm glad you're my second victim. |
| 0:17.3 | My first was last week and I was like, I guess this is what people want. They want to |
| 0:21.5 | watch and listen. So when I think about you, I think of you as this wicked smart serial |
| 0:30.2 | entrepreneur. And I want you to go back to your first company. Yes. That was a long time ago. |
| 0:39.2 | Okay. |
| 0:40.0 | So let's go there and why you started it, why you sold it. |
| 0:44.3 | We only met when you were doing, when you have Wander, and then I want to talk about your new company. |
| 0:49.1 | But so prior to Wander, what was this in you that was like, I want to grow and sell businesses over and over |
| 0:58.0 | again? It really happened by accident. So like I started my career in finance. I worked in investment |
| 1:02.5 | banking, Goldman Sachs, slept under a desk, loved every day of it, worked in private equity, invested |
| 1:07.3 | in late stage companies, worked in venture, invested in early stage companies. And I was an accidental entrepreneur. I was dating a guy. He didn't know what he wanted to do |
| 1:16.2 | with his life. I was working at a venture capital firm. I had an incredibly fulfilling |
| 1:20.0 | career where I met entrepreneurs. I had the opportunity to invest in their companies. |
| 1:25.4 | I watched them grow, build, sell. And I had this |
| 1:29.8 | person I was dating who was obsessed with cars and basically like could figure out after three |
| 1:36.1 | years of owning a car, here are all the mechanical problems that are going to happen. And so we |
| 1:41.1 | brainstormed on an idea together to create a marketplace for aftermarket auto parts. |
| 1:46.6 | So right after the car goes off warranty, these are all the issues you have with your car. |
| 1:51.0 | And these are all the parts that you need. |
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