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Emily Weiss

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first: 2019-01-16
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“You're in marketing You're in sales. You're in finance. Go do finance for because it's just, I'm getting very, but it's good advice. I'm telling you guys, if anyone here or anyone listening is thinking is starting something, just areas.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would not have done that I would have taken back title inflation. This is very specific, but I wish I actually was talking to our people person or HR person, we call people team, to say, you need to write a blog post on medium or something that's like the secret killer to startups, title inflation. You'd think it's like running out of money or having bad product market fit. I actually think it's this very specific thing. Maybe I'll write a blog post about it, but just don't give out titles. Like, don't give out titles. Don't make people VPSVP co-CEO whispering operator extraordinaire. Just don't do it. Because if you're going to build something for many years, you're going to have to unwind that. It's going to be really painful.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Places you're supposed to go because you cannot possibly chart that journey. Like, you just could not map it in your mind. What was the second part of that?”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the one really practical piece of advice, particularly when you're starting, and there are so many questions, like just every day, is like, where do I begin? Really? And I think one of the trickiest thing is honestly like yourself when you're in that stage, because there's just such analysis paralysis and there's such a sort of feeling like you're missing out, like there's an answer that you don't know, like there's some playbook or there's some thing and you're missing. You don't know, you can go find the answer. And I think the piece of advice I would have there is just do the next right thing. Like it's truly a journey when you're starting out and you're an entrepreneur. The next right decision every time. Just keep thinking what's the next right decision. And I think that helps you get somewhere. That really helps you just get some momentum and leads you in the”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Out with where it won't be so no makeup makeup, but we'll still be incredibly intuitive, incredibly user-friendly, and very fun.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, for sure. I think one of the things we wanted to ensure with our products is very user-friendly products. So things that don't require 15 brushes and are super tricky to use and are going to be complicated and aren't going to be able to just be intuitive. So intuitive products have meant certain decisions around making things that are blendable, that are sheer, that are layerable. That being said, we really encourage our customers and our customers span tons of different kinds of makeup wears. We have people who use boy brow who wear 50 makeup products every morning and spend two hours on her routine. And people wear boy brow is the only product she uses. We're really excited about that and also continuing to build products for all different kinds of looks. And that's something that I'm excited for you all to see this year is some of the things that were coming.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First, I mean, I think there are so many product decisions that it's like it's just good business also. It's like, why are you not including the right voices around the table to be able to build better product?”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah, for sure. Very inclusive of shade range. I mean, it's just something that's baked into everything we do. But that being said, I would say you're never done, right? There's always more that we and others can be doing. And I think for us, it's something that in particular, certainly with women, that's something that we've really tried very, very hard with and increasingly will try to sort of make sure that we're representing customers, the population. I think the best products, whether they're digital products, when you talk about Twitter, I think it's fascinating. I remember wasn't it with the Apple Health, it would track your blood alcohol level, but wouldn't track your period”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, for us, it's just intrinsic to, you know, it's a core value that we have in terms of inclusivity. We have a people of color group at Glossier that is actually involved in a wide variety of decisions in the company. I also think it's something that's just never finished. So when you say, do you do enough of that,”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, if you don't, it's not the person in the room working on the product, we won't even get started with the devices, Alexa and Siri and they you can say help I've been raped and they're like what is rape or like what it or like it's crazy so”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like, so you're all back, we're recommitting for the year ahead. But, you know, we put a lot of heart and soul into what we do, and I hope, you know, I recently was sitting next to at that dinner, actually, a young woman who's an engineer who just started. And we were talking about how important it is that onboarding is democratized. Onboarding is all of our responsibility. It's not just about two-hour training. It's not just about, you know, here's a memo.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I would say from the point of culture, culture is kind of the thing that you think is totally normal, but then you go somewhere else, like to a different company, and you're like, whoa, my company is so different. It's not better or worse. It's just things you sort of take for granted that are in the fabric of the company. And honestly at Glossier, I think one of the things that we do is we weave a lot of fun into what we do. And I'm not talking like beer pong, startup, you know, like fun, but we unveil our strategy every year at Camp Glossier. We take, you know, hundreds of people to two days of cool, we make cool merch, we do like amazing activities. We had our kickoff 2019 dinner that was kind of like, I was joking as I stood there. It looked like a vow renewal ceremony of like working at Glossier. It was like a big wedding, like a glossier wedding. And it kind of was. It was like the new year.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There are elements that I think are critically important. Like, you know, for example, really being devoted to the customer, being super curious, very inclusive, and being inclusive actually is a great point. It's not about sameness, right? Inclusive is about welcoming like different diverse opinions, being able to say, hey, you disagree with me, I disagree with you, but I'm including you in this conversation because we're going to hash it out, we're going to get to a better right answer. So I think those things are incredibly important at Glossier and are traits that some of our best leaders really, really exhibit consistently.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the balm is amazing. I also am so proud of our perfume, our fragrance glossier you know in an industry where typically you spend millions and millions and talking like 30 to like $100 million launching a perfume. We spend zero marketing dollars launching this fragrance and just made the most amazing scent and it has just incredibly high reviews. Like perfumes are usually really divisive. Ours has just consistently like so much like fandom and love and it's really turned into this kind of cult classic product that I love and I'm really proud of.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What was quick? So if we're doing a new flavor for balm.com, which many of you might have, my personal favorite is birthday cake flavor. If we're doing a new flavor, that's the quickest. That might be like six months or something because the formula is already created and it's just about switching the flavor. Whereas something like an OTC product over the counterproduct has an entirely different regulatory and testing sort of schedule and that might take like a year and a half or two years for a sunscreen, for example, or an acne product”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, first of all, is everyone in the office excited about it? So, again, that's kind of like the kind of litmus test is like looking around when you're showing, and this goes for anything in any business. It's like if you're all in a meeting and everyone's really not into the idea, clearly it's not, you know, there's an issue. So for us, it starts with looking around and seeing if everyone's like, and then we know we're on to something. Every product's different. We have products that take six months. Six months to produce and to get right, we have products that take two and a half years to get right, like the face wash forever”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, if it's a beauty product, beauty is so social. And again, going back to how we grew, it was so much about people who had great experiences with the product. Think about every happy customer telling their followers, telling 10 of 100 of their followers. So I would say it's more important to have an amazing, put something amazing out into the world such that people will want to talk about it. I mean, in all of the fancy ways of growth hacking and ways that you can grow, I mean, I still believe that word of mouth and having someone have an amazing, really like something enough to go tell a friend is like the most traditional and the most kind of everlasting in terms of”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, I think the average age of our customers in the late 20s. In our stores, you see a lot of much younger customers. But glossy is for everyone. I mean, we do have a lot of women in their 60s, women in their 50s, women just two hours ago as someone who's 11-year-old daughter had every single product. I'm like, did you even know she had all? He was like, no, where is she getting? How is she paying for this stuff? So it's. And one of the things I'm actually, exactly. One of the things that we're most proud of is Glossy is one of the first brands that is being passed up as opposed to passed down. So people who are in their teens or in their early are actually saying, hey, mom, you should really try this brow product. And that's been really rewarding.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Although often women operate in companies and operated by people of color, often seen as the exception rather than the rule, it's the same thing with movies, like how did Black Panther get so good? Maybe you weren't backing them in the first place, and so they never got the chance. Do you know what I mean? So it is important that Christian started your, Kirsten started your company. I mean, I think she sees around corners precisely because she's a woman. It seems as though Glossier average customer is younger millennial. How do you think about growing with the customer through different life stages ages? Although I did see a lot of mothers and daughters in your store.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We just need to build more companies that are big companies that are paving the way. You know, I think a lot about two things. I think about the what, and I think about the how. I think about what we're building at Glossier, what we're putting out into the world, what value we're creating, what we're disrupting, what we're transforming, and just as important as all of that is the how we're doing it. Because in 10 years' time when we are in the world operating in a very big scale, I want startups in the valley or startups in New York or startups in Idaho to be sitting around a table saying, how should we build our tech team? How should we hire? How should we do this? And think, how did Glossier do it? Because they're clearly doing something right and be able to look under the hood at the how we're doing it and say, I'm going to do it like that.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is. There have been some changes in how you come up with funding and everything like that. I'll never forget when a VC once I was like, why don't you have more partners? Why don't you have more investments? And he said, well, if there'd been a Marsh at Zuckerberg instead of a Mark Zuckerberg, and I said, you're such an idiot. I have to walk out of this room right now because it was like, what are you talking?”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, it's a lot of pattern matching, right? I mean, the industry is based on a lot of VCs who used to be operators, and the people who used to be operators 20 years ago in tech companies were men. And so I think it's just going to take a lot of work for the shift to happen, but it's already happening.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I was so heads down and just about knowing it was going to be hard, and will I ever know whether or not it was harder because I'm a woman than it would be if I'm a man. I don't know. But I was just focused on winning.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Listen, I'll be really honest with you. One thing that is just true is it should be hard. It should be hard to build a business. It should be hard to raise money. It's just hard. If it's not hard, I don't know. I don't know why. But it should be. It should feel hard. So whether you're a woman or a unicorn or a man or whatever, like it's going to be hard. I'm fortunate, well, I don't know if, I guess it is, but I'm certainly fortunate to have gotten the funding. I did not have, I didn't face any sort of overtly harassment or I don't know, sexual sex.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Secret no one talks about. They think it's all about your deck and it's all about who you know and all these things. And I do think who you know does have something to do with it. But I will also tell you that when I was first raising our seed round of $2 million five plus years ago, I didn't know any of these venture capitalists. I didn't even know what venture capital was. I knew I needed a million dollars in order to pay for materials that would make beauty products and go produce beauty products. And it was a lot of cold outreach and getting people on board. And 11 out of 12 people said no, or 10 out of or 11 or whatever it is. Isn't it like that Lady Gaga quote that's like there can be 100 people in a room and if only one whatever so there was one there was one Kirsten Green in the room and yeah she was an SF and”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wendy, thank you. I think my advice, this is my advice, not I think, because I. People ask me this all the time. My advice to someone seeking out their seed investment is to understand, and I'm going out on a limb here, this is just my observation. I believe that a seed investor is really betting on you. They are embedding on the entrepreneur. They're betting that I can give you this money and I'm not sure what you're going to really make of it because there's going to be so many twists and turns and you're so early. There's no product market fit. It's just an idea. It's a spreadsheet and a bottle of wine, right? Like that's what you got. And so I think it's really about how do you sort of sell yourself. And it's not to sell yourself to be right all the time. If anything, it's to say, hey, I will tell you really honestly where this could go really wrong. I will tell you honestly what my blind spots are. I will tell you honestly step one, step two, step three. And I think it's getting people on board with you. I think that's really like this.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, a lot of makeup selling, but you know, at Glossie, I'd say this is something that we've always stayed very true to since pre-launch day one is every single person is an influencer. And I think that that is so the message right now for politics, for seeing all of these women going into Congress. I mean, you're starting to really understand more than ever, I think, the power of your voice and the importance of your voice and how necessary it is to speak up.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, incredibly successful. We actually recently hired the product developer who did Fenti, who did NARS before that. So she's on our team, so we have great products coming, more great products coming soon. I think using your voice, I think the biggest kind of crossover for us is speak up, use your voice, talk about it.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How do I see it intersecting with politics? I mean, I think we talk a lot about kind of the democratization of media. I think that's definitely happened with social media. There's certainly a giant democratization of beauty where everything is being flattened. There's no one.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“From PayPal. So I think part of it is just been the fact that it's not my strength is the number one challenge, but I'm fortunate that our leadership and so many of our team, they know what they're doing. They're amazing.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think actually the most challenging aspect of building a great technology team is that I'm not a technical founder. So I'm not Patrick from Stripe or”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, but someone asked me, how do I get more women in tech? I go hire them. Come on So, how do you attract them? I would assume that. Woman led compan Probably going to help. What does that make up on your team?”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure, yeah, I think, yeah, exactly. Anywhere that people, any sort of tools we can give to help the beauty conversation grow. About Glossier and about just any other products, that's what we'll”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I mean, I think it's the number one way to do that and to listen and to serve people better is, I mean, obviously a lot of technology. So a third of our company is tech that'll probably go more to 50% in terms of our tech team. I would also say so much. If you go into one of our two stores, or even if you look in our comment section on an Instagram post, people are answering each other's questions. So I think the ability to even just empower our customers, it's not through Rev shares or anything like that, but just they're really doing a lot of that work for us.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not sure what the future holds, but whatever it takes to continue to build this as a very, for a very long time and to a very big company is what we'll do.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, maybe we don't spend that much time thinking about competition. We really spend a ton of time thinking about customers. So there's no.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Shave guy they buy. Yeah, I mean, last night Elemis sold to Los Hatan for $900 million. So it was like 6.4 revenue, I think. And innovation really has come for the last decade from MA. We believe that there's a real channel opportunity here in terms of being direct. It's something that these beauty companies have not yet done, who's to say they couldn't, but they're very hamstrung by the relationship with the big retailers. And when it comes to our growth, I mean, we're very focused on we have a lot of We have an inherently profitable business model. We have a lot of runway in terms of investment. We have an amazing team. We're hiring more amazing people every day. So we don't really see any reason to...”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, just how are these human connections going to develop, like you said, 10 years ago, Facebook said we're facilitating connections. That's what we're doing. Now you see studies coming out saying actually your people are very depressed through this process. And so where is that all leading? And I think a lot of it is going to be this intersection of topic-based networks or topic-based kind of communities. And inherent in this is like, how are you solving this kind of beauty conundrum where it's not about a perfect answer, perfect score, perfect algorithm? It's like a head scratcher. And so you need people to populate this kind of emotional space around beauty.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Merchandising closer want. It's like I interviewed years ago the guy who started Creighton Beryl and he took a 20 cent plate and sold it for $8 because he put it in the beautiful setting. He made people feel good about it, which was kind of awful to do. But nonetheless, he was creating an emotional feeling around. Yeah.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They do beautifully. Algorithm, which they do beautifully, and no one will ever compete on that. They have solved it. But with 10% of commerce in the US happening online, that means 90% more commerce that is probably going to move a lot online. And you do need these kinds of conduits for people to be able to influence and inspire and sort of have that human connection closer.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really think about it like how many of you are just scrolling looking at our friends and people we follow saying, who makes that lamp in your room? What sneakers are those? I'm not talking ads, right? I'm talking like this is the new QVC or home shopping network. So at the same time, then you're kind of clicking over to sort of Amazon. It's turning into this fulfillment kind of, right?”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And increasingly, the sort of humanity of things and sort of the connections you feel with people or the information you want from people and the kind of human kind of experiences are going to, I think, be harder and harder to come by. And I think if you look at, I mean, I was in a mall in Tampa over Christmas break where my parents live, and it was packed. It was packed with people hanging out, like people on first dates, families, you know, like who are in town going to Anti-Annes, you know, and having shopping. And people swarming the Apple store, you know, and I'm not saying that all of that means you need more stores, but I do think it's interesting, this disaggregation that's happened where shopping is the purview of Instagram. Like, what if what is Instagram if not HSN?”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, one thing that I'm very, very excited for is to create this new paradigm of commerce that is much more emotional. So in some ways, I think Amazon really solved buying, but it killed shopping in the process.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Haloscope, lip gloss. I mean, so many huge glossy products. She was 22 years old. She never been in a lab before. And I think maybe that's a benefit of being a female executive or a woman who didn't go to business school. Went to art school just in so many ways shouldn't be here. This is not the path. Why not? Why couldn't this person who seems to have this great instinct be really good at this thing? So to answer your question, I tend to stay pretty kind of behind the scenes to try and do as much as I can to kind of enable that magic to happen, whether on a personal basis internally or on a customer facing basis with a store experience, with an amazing, with a canyon room in LA that you can go into and be like, why is this in a store? Why am I in a can”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I guess in some ways really kind of stay behind the scenes. I like to really play matchmaker for people internally. One of my favorite things is kind of helping people see their potential. So an example of that is a woman who stopped me on the subway a few years ago and said, I love Glossier, you know, and I said, well, what do you do? She said, well, I just graduated college. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do. I said, well, I'm hiring an assistant. Do you want to come interview for it? And then she became my assistant and I realized very quickly that she was a good assistant, even I don't think she'd tell me she was like, you know, it was the perfect fit for her. But she was amazing at physical products, at hardware. She was amazing at ingredients. She just knew, just as a consumer, just really an amazing sense. So I moved her into product development and she created like three of our best-selling products, cloud paint.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Interesting. So, I guess there's a spectrum, certainly, in terms of if I think about companies whose founders I know are friendly with, across tech, across brands, across media. I kind of, how do I think about it? I've always thought of myself as kind of more of a kind of conduit for connection And that's really the role I like to play. I think fundamentally the most pleasure that I derive is A, making people happy. So meaning like creating something that makes someone smile, creating a product, delivering a package, creating an experience, something that makes people smile. I think I also...”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I really lean into brand marketing, to product, to digital product now. And I love to learn and I'm incredibly curious about other functions of the business and experts who come in to lead those functions. And I think that's been really important is honestly just a core value of Glossier is just curiosity. And the interesting thing about when you're curious, it goes hand in hand with humility. If you're curious, it means you're saying, I'm really wondering about this. I don't know about it.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, listen, of course, you know, it's apparent, it's apparent in rooms, at conferences, it's apparent in rooms around tables with companies. It's not apparent at glossier because we're overwhelmingly female. But I think the most important thing just as an executive that I've learned, and people say this, but it's really true, is getting really good at knowing what you're good at and what your value add is to the company. And so for me, I really lean into customer sort of touch points.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, female CEOs at public companies went down last year in number, in total number. Last year, I think it was, what was it, 4% of venture deals went to female CEOs, 2% of venture dollars went to female CEOs. The percentages are even lower for women of color. I mean, we have such a long way to go. And for me, I don't spend too much time thinking about that. I recognize the responsibility. I have as a female CEO, but I really just focus on continuing to build a massive, I just want to build a great company that brings a lot of joy to people. And I'm just going to keep doing that.”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of Stitchfix, who had took it public, so she's one of very few female CEOs who have taken their companies public, and generally found a lot of success in surrounding myself and talking to people who are basically like two steps ahead, right? All is well and good to read books by Howard Schultz and amazing leaders who are 2,000 steps ahead, but I find what's most helpful where we are right now is to find people who are a couple years a couple years ahead to really help see around those corners and make sure we're making smart hires for”
2019-01-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT