Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal (2016)

Hey, it's Guy here, and I've got a random bit of trivia for you. So a year after Jack Kerwak wrote On the Road, he came out with his second book. It was called The Dharma Bombs. And two of its characters actually inspired the name of a real life company. One character was Warby and the other was Parker. And the company is well, I think you can guess. And we're gonna hear all about that and a lot more on this episode, which originally ran back in twenty sixteen. We hadn't told anyone that the site was live. We didn't want to drive any traffic to it because we weren't sure it would work. So I get an order and then ten minutes later we get another order.

And then another order, and then another order. And it it kind of go from this feeling of elatement to Oh crap. Um we we don't have this much inventory.

From NPR, it's How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. Raz, and on today's show. Two of the founders of Worby Parker tell the story of how they birthed an idea, an idea that disrupted the entire eyeglass industry in America. And grew into a billion dollar company. Yeah.

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