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Vicky Tsai

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“Never. And once you have disrupted the barrier function of your skin, after that, it's not able to effectively keep things out. And so anything after that skin start irritating your skin. So detergents in my pillowcases or fragrances or my shampoos that had traditional ingredients in it. It was everything when the spring came pollution, whatever. It would freak out.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's when the barrier function of your skin has become disrupted, and so things that would typically not irritate the skin suddenly start irritating it because it's getting into the skin itself. So it looks like bleeding, blistering, scaling on my entire face, including my lips and my eyelids. It was very painful.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The products that we were working with, but then also to do competitive benchmarking, I would go to the other luxury brands, so Le Maire and LePrairie, doesn't matter across the board, I just got a chance to buy a lot of them, to use a lot of them, to try to craft SK2 strategy. And it was at that point that I ruined my face”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. So I was actually working on SK2, which is a Japanese skincare brand that they own. I treated my face like a science experiment and gave myself acute dermatitis.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I actually just went really numb, and I just went on complete autopilot, and I started planning how do we get out of Wall Street. I just went into planning mode”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it should have been, but I think what I did at that time, and I only realize it recently is I sort of almost disassociate. I didn't want to be in Manhattan anymore. I didn't want to be in ground zero. I didn't want to have to go there every day, especially because when the temporary trading floor in New Jersey was moved back to ground zero right before Christmas time, the only thing that I could see was out the window, which looks straight at the hole that was left. You could always tell when they found a body or body parts because it would be covered with an American flag. And that was my only view for months. I couldn't see anything but that. And then I would go home and my husband would be sick. And so.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Stop with all the medicine and the steroids and just quit it and see what happens. And thank goodness he got his health back.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About three years. So we would spend the weekends in the emergency room. Eventually, we did go to the Mayo Clinic. He had some procedures. They didn't know what it was. Towards the end, they were thinking about remicade, which is a pretty strong treatment that the side effects included things like infections of the nervous system. I mean, pretty horrifying stuff. And we decided to just pull the plug on all the treatments.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We'll never really know. He never had any symptoms before that. He had run, I think, five marathons in two years prior to that, super healthy, captain of the crew team. And then all of a sudden, he couldn't move, he couldn't keep food down. He lost 40 pounds.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I don't know if I came up with that immediately, but I knew I didn't want to be there anymore. He got sick with an autoimmune disease.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It must have been minutes, not too long, but it was enough for me to be watching on the TV and see the towers fall. I couldn't even quantify how long. But then he came up after and he was okay.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Pretty chaotic down there. And then the people were jumping And I couldn't watch it any longer. So I walked back to our apartment, which was in the West Village, and I thought he's going to know that we can't find each other here and he'll come find me and he'll probably beat me there because I have heels on and he's fast. He was a marathon run at that point. So then when I got home and he still wasn't there, that's when I realized like, shoot, he was looking for me. And then I had no way of getting a hold of him because the mobile phones weren't working Both the towers fell before he got home So there was a moment in there where I thought he was gone.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On the sidewalk. And I realized we were never going to find each other because as people started flowing out out of all the buildings, it got...”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When we heard the second plane hit, we didn't know what was going on, and nothing came on over the loudspeakers yet. But I remember getting up and walking seven flights down and actually being one of the first ones to leave the building. And I'm ashamed to say that it didn't even occur to me to call up to my husband to tell him what was going on. I just split. And then I waited outside for him.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we were in one of the world financial centers that's actually connected to the trade centers via a land bridge. And so I was on the trading floor, which was the seventh floor of that building, and my husband was on the 26th floor, which is where he worked, of the financial centers. And I was in a meeting when the first plane hit, and there was no windows in the meeting room. So we felt the rumble and we heard it, but we didn't know what it was. But my husband, when he heard the first plane hit, he went straight to the windows to see what was happening. And he actually watched the second plane come in and bank, and he watched it go into the tower. At that point, I was back on the trading floor. We had gotten out of our meeting and.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it was the weekend before school started at Wellesley. And it had hit me that there really were no men there. And they had this dance called Tower Court Mixer and men from surrounding schools would come in for the dance. And I saw him. He wasn't at all interested in me and I kind of kept on doing laps around the dance floor with my new girlfriends. And they kept on getting plucked off one by one. And then every few months, I would try to get his attention and email him and call him. But he just wasn't interested.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I loved my experience at Wellesley, but it was very, very small. UT Austin was a huge school and I was used to my independence and used to big classes and lots of different kinds of people. So when I went to Wellesley, it's a very small. Boutique experience, Tiny Liberal Arts College, and its women only, which I understood theoretically. Wasn't until I got there where I was like, Where are the guys?”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ran out of money over and over and over again. I couldn't afford a salary. My partner couldn't afford a salary. I couldn't afford rent anymore. And my parents had bought a place near the airport at that point. And they let me move into there. And this really, really incredible high-end clientele. And I was working on my mom's garage.”
2025-06-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tatcha: Vicky Tsai (July 2020) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT