Advice Line with Jenn Hyman of Rent The Runway

Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. This is the place where we help try to solve your business challenges, and each week I'm joined by a legendary founder of former guests on the show who will help me try to help you. And so If you are building something and you need advice, Go ahead and give us a call, and you might just be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Send us a one-minute message with your name, a bit about your business, and the issues or questions that you'd like help with. Or

You can send us a voice memo at hibt at id.wondery.com. and make sure to tell us how to reach you. Also don't forget to sign up for my newsletter. It's filled with insights and ideas from the world's greatest entrepreneurs. You can sign up for free at gyros.com or on Substack, and we'll put all this info in the podcast description. Alright, let's go. Joining me this week is Jen Hyman. She's the co-founder and CEO of Rent the Runway, the Rental Subscription Service for Designer Clothing. Jen, it's great to have you back on the show. I love being on your show, guy. It's it's honestly my favorite piece of media, my favorite podcast I've

Ever done it's gonna be the thing that I'm the proudest of My kids listening to someday. Awesome. That's thank you for saying that. Um and by the way, if you guys haven't heard that that episode, we'll put a link in the dis uh in the episode description. Really, really fun and and worth listening to. Rent the runway. was basically, if you don't know about it, was started as a way for consumers to literally rent high fashion, get designer clothing that would uh otherwise cost thousands of dollars to buy and you guys went public in twenty twenty one. You are now a listed public company. You're the head of a a publicly traded company.

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