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Gregg Renfrew

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  1. “Yes, the wedding registry or the wedding list, it all started because when I was going to weddings, I was constantly wearing these dresses that I hated. And I felt like there was a disconnect between what the bride wanted her bridesmaids to be wearing and what the bridesmaids wanted and or could afford. And so a friend of mine and I started this little bridesmaids dress company on the side. This is years earlier. This is years earlier.”

    2026-05-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Less than two years That was purely a personal thing, not a, it wasn't a business thing. I ended up falling in love with someone and he was transferred to Virginia and proposed to me. And so I ended up moving.”

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  3. “You have to get through the security in a building. Most of the people would open the door and slam the door in your face literally slam the door in your face. And then on occasion you would get someone who would be willing. It was usually the office manager or the receptionist who would let you do your pitch. On an occasion, they would call you back more times than that they didn't sort of nine times out of ten.”

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  4. “You were printing money, but if you were trying to sell someone who makes Bespoke jewelry. They don't really need copiers.”

    2026-05-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “So, I was in the Midtown Manhattan office, and I was assigned the jewelry district, which was crazy because no one, jewelers just in general didn't use a lot of copying machines. I mean, if you landed a law office,”

    2026-05-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “So it's funny, I graduated from college and my mother gave me a brief case with my initials on it and a check for $5,000. And she said, you're on your own. So you can do whatever you want with this money, but that's it. You're never getting any more money from your father or me. And so I had all these friends were like, oh, we're going to go be skiing or whatever. And my mom's like, I wouldn't do that. You only have $5,000. So I took that $5,000 and I put my first and last month's rent down in an apartment. And I ran up some credit card debt. I think I had about $1,000 bill on my Amix, which I couldn't pay. I called my mother. And she said, well, guess you need to get another job. And so I started trying to figure out how I could make more money because I was only making $19,000 a year. And a friend of mine had gone to work for Xerox and I knew it had the best sales training program in the country at the time. And I thought I would be good at sales. And so less than a year after graduating, I went over there and started.”

    2026-05-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “In 2021, the private equity giant, the Carlisle Group, bought a majority stake. Now, for most founders, that would be the fairy tale ending. But for Greg, it turned out to be closer to a not so great ending, because not long after the deal closed, Greg was pushed out of the company she started. And what happened next was something almost no founder ever gets the chance to do. A few years after she was pushed out and after the business had unraveled, Greg bought it back for pennies on the dollar. And now she's trying to build it all over again. For most of her life, before they met her, people assumed Greg was a male because, well, her name was Greg, but her official first name is Susan. Greg is what everyone's called her since childhood. It's actually her mom's maiden name.”

    2026-05-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “There was no such thing as clean beauty. So for us to make the makeup, our skincare products that I wanted would be the same as going to the fanciest restaurant in town, having the most decadent chocolate cake and saying, I want that same chocolate cake, except you can't use flour, eggs, or sugar, and I want it done in six months.”

    2026-05-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT