Building a $510 Million Personal Care Giant with Danielle Cohen-Shohet, Founder & CEO of GlossGenius
Description
Danielle Cohen-Shohet is the CEO and Founder of GlossGenius, the all-in-one booking, payments and POS solution that helps beauty and wellness professionals drive bookings and grow their business.
Danielle started the company in 2016 and has since grown it to a $510 million valuation. This is while taking a disciplined approach to fundraising, raising roughly $70 million throughout the life of the company.
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Topics include:
A crash course on the $160 billion beauty, health, and wellness market
How the industry's shifting to time-based billing and upfront payments
Why GlossGenius spends so much time on customer experience
Surviving a 90% drop in revenue during COVID
Why she credits talking to and listening to customers to GlossGenius success
A look inside each funding round, and why Danielle kept them small
How she learned to delegate as the company scaled
Why the big picture is often made of little details
Danielle’s secret for running a capital efficient business
GlossGenius’ Hiring and Interviewing Manual
Why most companies aren’t good at hiring
Danielle’s favorite interview questions
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Where to find Danielle:
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/dcohenshohet
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcohenshohet
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Where to find Turner:
Newsletter: https://www.thespl.it
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak
Banana Capital: https://bananacapital.vc
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