Warby Parker Co-founder, Dave Gilboa: Building a Life and Brand That Matters.

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  So how do you turn a lost pair of glasses, a heart for service and a brain for business, into a billion dollar plus social venture?

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  That is the exploration we dive into with my guest today, Dave Gulbel, who is one of the founders of Warby Parker.

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  If you don't know Warby Parker, they are a company that started with a social mission and also to solve a really big problem by offering super high quality eyeglasses glasses at a human price.

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  And they did this at a time when the economy in the US was kind of collapsing.

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  Yet they were committed.

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  They were four friends from school and it all kind of kicked off when one of them, Dave, was on a flight back from traveling and he lost a really expensive pair of glasses and couldn't understand why upon returning, the iPhone that he purchased was a fraction of the cost of the glasses that he lost.

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  That is where our story begins.

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  Really, really excited to share this conversation with you.

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