Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker

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. Each week I'm joined by a legendary founder, a former guest on the show. Who will help me try to help you. And if you're building something and you need advice, give us a call and you just might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Leave us a one-minute message that tells us about your business and the issues or questions that you'd like help with. Alright, let's get to it. Joining me today is Neil Blumenthal, co-founder and co-CEO of Worby Parker. Neil, uh, welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me. It's great to be back. Great to have you back. You were first on the show back in twenty sixteen, telling us how you and a few friends from your MBA program at at Wharton

basically realized that glasses were way too expensive than they had to be and you decided to do something about it. And of course your brand, Warby Parker, uh, was the result. It's been a amazing success story. Um, and you guys really changed the way people buy glasses. And by the way, Uh for those of you listening who haven't heard that episode, we will put a link to it in the show notes. It's such an awesome story and well worth uh going back. I want to ask you a qu a quick question before we get to our callers um about your co founder, Dave Gilboa, because he was also on the show with you.

You guys are still the co CEOs of Orby Parker all these years later, since you founded the company back in two thousand ten. Yeah. This is quite uncommon, right? We've seen it with like um Wayfair and some other brands where the co founders are still really running the thing together. Um But it's uncommon, right, to have such a long working relationship that's successful Co CEOs, you're both the CEOs.

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