Beautycounter CEO and founder Gregg Renfrew on the opportunity and responsibility to succeed
Beautycounter isn't your typical beauty brand. Given its network of roughly 50,000 independent consultants marketing and selling its products, company founder and CEO Gregg Renfrew feels "an enormous ...
23 Apr 202037min
ReVive Skincare CEO Elana Drell-Szyfer on navigating crises in the beauty industry
RéVive Skincare CEO Elana Drell-Szyfer has been in the beauty industry long enough to weather past global crises. "I've lived through them all," she said on this week's episode of the Glossy Beauty Po...
16 Apr 202036min
Sylvie Chantecaille on selling luxury beauty online without Amazon's help
Sylvie Chantecaille has no illusions about the commercial difficulties presented by the coronavirus pandemic. "Basically our business went dead overnight," she said of her eponymous prestige beauty co...
9 Apr 202036min
Josh Wood on his hair-color business during the pandemic: 'DTC has gone crazy'
Like many entrepreneurs, hair colorist Josh Wood has had to change how he does business in the midst of the pandemic. "We have no salon operations at the moment, but boy oh boy, the DTC has gone crazy...
2 Apr 202035min
BeautyBio's Jamie O'Banion on a CEO's responsibility to plan for the 'worst-case scenario'
BeautyBio founder and CEO Jamie O'Banion describes part of her job as "always thinking through worst-case scenario and planning for it." With the coronavirus pandemic overtaking consumers' health and ...
26 Mar 202033min
Ilia Beauty founder Sasha Plavsic on riding the clean category's 'extreme growth pattern'
Sasha Plavsic is pretty clear that she picked the right beauty category to start a business in. "The clean category, as they're calling it now, is on an extreme growth pattern," Plavsic said on the Gl...
19 Mar 202032min
Drew Elliott: 'I've always thought of MAC as being at the center of pop culture'
When Kim Kardashian 'broke the internet' by way of a photo shoot in Paper magazine, Drew Elliott was its chief creative officer. Now a few months into his new role as global creative director at MAC C...
12 Mar 202028min
First Aid Beauty founder and CEO Lilli Gordon developing and selling one of the first clean brands
Lilli Gordon knew she wanted to start a beauty company before even settling on its place in the market. "I was studying the landscape because I had this crazy idea that I wanted to start my own beauty...
5 Mar 202033min
