Neil Blumenthal along with his three friends started a business, while he was in college. Everyone told him that his idea would not work and no one would buy glasses online.
Yet, they started Warby Parker ad had to face many rejections and hardships. They kept moving forward in spite of all this and finally turned it into a multi-billion dollar company.
What you could learn from this episode:
- What prompted them to come up with the idea for Warby Parker
- What lessons they learnt while hiring developers.
- Why did they decide to move forward, even tough everyone said, their business would fail.
- What was their overall strategy to reduce their risk in their business.
- How they figured out the name for their business.
- Why did they decide to deviate from just online to other avenues.
- How two friends worked together without conflicts between them.
