As leaders, we've all seen the painful effects of team members not keeping pace with company growth - it's called up-leveling, and it's all too common when a company goes from zero to something to hopefully an IPO. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
If you spend your time away from work looking at emails and making sure your inbox went down to zero, that's not an effective way to spend your time as a CEO or an entrepreneur. Often times, those emails aren't… — 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