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Fashioning a greener closet, w/Rent the Runway CEO Jenn Hyman
Rapid Response
English - June 10, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsManagement Business energy sports news leadership science retail healthcare culture technology startup Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Fashion became secondary amid Covid lockdowns. Sweatpants-only life pressed apparel-subscription service Rent the Runway into layoffs and furloughs. But as co-founder and CEO Jenn Hyman explains, the business saw a surprising rebound early this year, fueled by new customers in unexpected places – and by a renewed consumer focus on sustainability. Building a “closet in the cloud,” as Jenn describes Rent the Runway, may not have been an essential pandemic service, but as we move into the next phase, her experience illuminates how accelerated change is remaking the marketplace.
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