Money Talks: Glossier’s Glamorous Girl Boss
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In our inaugural edition of Money Talks, Felix Salmon sits down with veteran fashion writer Marisa Meltzer, author of Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier. Marisa discusses the real-life woman behind Glossier’s iconic CEO, the feminism of the beauty industry, and why French is the language of glamour.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Money Talks our new series from Slate Money. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. |
| 0:18.0 | We are here to have conversations with awesome, amazing, brilliant people |
| 0:22.0 | and this week I'm here with |
| 0:25.0 | Marissa Meltser. Marissa introduce yourself. My name is Marissa |
| 0:30.0 | I wrote a book called Glossy which is about the brand Glossier the |
| 0:36.1 | beauty industry girl bosses and I'm a journalist I write a lot for the New York Times |
| 0:42.0 | and some other places. |
| 0:44.3 | We are here we're going to talk about money in the beauty industry, beauty in the money industry. |
| 0:48.4 | We're going to talk about the weird creature that is the executive chair role. |
| 0:52.8 | We're going to talk a lot about Emily Weiss, |
| 0:54.8 | who's the founder of Glossier. |
| 0:56.3 | We're going to talk about why Paris is so attractive and romantic. |
| 1:01.6 | We're going to talk about Marissa's own favorite place to buy cosmetics. |
| 1:05.5 | It's all coming up on slate money. This episode is brought to you by Oracle. |
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