Rent the Runway CEO: Building a Closet in the Cloud
Boss Files with Poppy Harlow
CNN
4.6 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of Boss Files, we rent clothes so that you could start buying less stuff. |
| 0:05.8 | We have built a closet in the cloud so that you have a subscription to getting dressed |
| 0:11.1 | and can wear new things every single day. |
| 0:13.8 | And we will also rent you clothing for special events. |
| 0:17.5 | Rent the Runway CEO Jen Hyman. |
| 0:20.6 | She co-founded the company while she was at Harvard |
| 0:22.8 | to help girls afford designer gown without breaking the bank. Why she said she dreamed of |
| 0:28.0 | democratizing the fashion industry. With the company's explosive success, though, she feels a |
| 0:33.5 | responsibility to level the playing field for all of her employees. This year, she announced |
| 0:38.9 | equal benefits for all, something many American companies lack. She made the announcement in front |
| 0:45.2 | of hundreds of warehouse workers, and she calls those hours some of the most profound |
| 0:50.9 | of her life. What I realized was that we were perpetuating income inequality in this |
| 0:57.1 | country. We're living in a really interesting time where it is incumbent that business leaders have |
| 1:04.3 | to start acting like moral leaders. Wall Street has to start having a morality index because |
| 1:10.0 | 70% of millennials will not work for an employer unless that employer represents their values. |
| 1:18.0 | And she says there's no excuse for companies not to be diverse today. Plus, her dream lunch date, Amazon's Jeff Bezos. |
| 1:26.5 | And be aggressive, her advice to female entrepreneurs. |
| 1:30.2 | Here's my conversation with Rent the Runways, Jen Hyman. |
| 1:33.4 | Jen Hyman, thanks for being here. |
| 1:34.8 | I'm psyched to be here with you. |
| 1:36.3 | Co-founder, CEO, Rent the Runway. |
| 1:38.7 | If there is a person that doesn't know what Rent the Runway is, hard to believe at this point, |
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