I kick off every monthly team meeting with 'core value stories' - team members stand up and recognize how another team member exemplified a core value. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
The first core value we have is that everyone deserves a Cinderella experience. And I have experienced a Cinderella experience. And I really believe that most people who've come to Rent the Runway have had a Cinderella experience. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
You need to fail quickly and learn from those failures to continue to build along the way. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
Like any startup in hyper-growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
When I feel like the day is great? Pasta. When I feel like I want the day to be great? Pasta. It's just awesome. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
When we launched, we had to figure out every problem - big or small - on our own. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
Around the year 2000, businesses around the country went 'business casual.' — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
The way I inspire loyalty in my team is for them to see me more casually, to have lunch with members of my team,… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
When choosing vendors for my wedding, I intentionally searched for women who were at the beginning of their own founder journeys. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
While it can be challenging for women with disruptive, technology-based ideas to acquire significant funding, in my experience, once I was able to raise… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
My contribution to Rent the Runway as the CEO is higher than the contribution of someone on my warehouse team, but my pregnancy is… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
I've always loved artists - creative, spontaneous, laid-back people - but I wasn't meeting these types in real life. So I figured that, given… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
I studied social studies at Harvard, which makes it sound like I was in seventh grade. It was a choose-your-own-adventure major, where you could… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
Clothing enables people to self-express, and that's why variety, when it comes to our wardrobe, has become more and more important over time. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
