Recode Decode: Tristan Walker, CEO, Walker & Company

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Walker & Company Brands founder and CEO Tristan Walker talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how technology can disrupt the health and beauty industry. Walker & Company's shaving brand, Bevel, is aimed at people of color who are underserved by the big cosmetics companies, and Walker says he plans to focus even more on personalized products those competitors can't deliver. An alumnus of Twitter, Foursquare and Andreessen Horowitz, he also discusses his problems with tech companies' "culture fit," and why those who say they can't find talented black and Latino tech workers are spouting "complete bullshit." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's sponsor is Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price.
0:05.6	Get $50 toward any mattress purchased by visiting Casper.com slash Recode and using the promo code Recode.
0:12.4	Terms and conditions apply.
0:14.4	We'd also like to thank Qualcomm for making today's show possible.
0:17.8	First they connected the phone to the internet, now they're connecting the internet to everything else.
0:22.1	Qualcomm, they're the inventors bringing the future forward faster.
0:27.2	Recode radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by digital media.
0:34.2	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, executive editor of Recode.
0:37.2	You may know me as the Simone Biles of reporting, but a lot less bendy.
0:41.2	But in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:51.2	You can subscribe to Recode Decode at iTunes.com slash Recode Decode and while you're there, leave us a review.
0:57.2	Today in the red chair, I'm really happy to have Tristan Walker, the founder and CEO of Walker & Company Brands.
1:04.2	Launching in 2013 Walker & Company is a consumer health and beauty company that focuses on people of color.
1:11.2	To accomplish that mission, it has raised tens of millions of dollars from some big venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.
1:17.2	Tristan, welcome to the show.
1:19.2	I'm in your beautiful fancy offices here.
1:21.2	Brand new.
1:22.2	And I was saying it used to be the offices of Pulse.com to show you now.
1:25.2	Yeah, it was.
1:26.2	Yeah, I met those guys here until they had to sadly move into the LinkedIn building.
1:30.2	They did welcome themselves.
1:31.2	They did okay. They did just fine.
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