 Rather than networking, I think networking is often, like, over-hyped. So whenever someone asks me to be a mentor and advisor, I'm like, don't ask me that. Like, tell me the problem you want me to solve for you today. And let's see if, like, we can both use our time most efficiently and I can help you. So I'd love women to start playing that role. When she's not encouraging women to be proactive, Jenny Fleiss is busy revolutionizing retail. She and her partner Jennifer Hyman launched Rent the Runway back in 2009. After hearing that Hyman's sister spent thousands on a dress for a wedding that she was only going to wear once. Well today, Rent the Runway lets customers rent luxury design addresses at 10% of retail. You can keep it for a few days and send it back. They'll even do the dry cleaning. This so cool sharing economy is what we exist in now. You were ahead of the game with it. How did you get past the notion, though, that, like, ew, I'm going to wear someone else's dress? What we did is we proactively invested in building an aspirational brand. So we said everything we do is going to feel magical, beautiful, designer worthy. That made designers comfortable working with us, but it also made customers feel like when they opened a package from us, it was magical, special, like they felt like Cinderella. Cinderella. Right? So it made them feel excited and want to talk about something. So you and Jen created an atmosphere, though, of diversity. I mean, the numbers are staggering. Almost 85% are non-white men. Mm-hmm. That's amazing. Mm-hmm. In this day and age, your executive team is 65% women. Isn't that rare? Yes. That's super special. And it's been that way, actually, continually. So we've had different members on our executive team, but there's always been a majority of women. And, you know, that's happened very naturally. We didn't set out and say, we're only going to hire women or we want to be 80% women. It was just the best people for the job. And I think what you often find is when you're dealing with a female-oriented project, problem that women are most passionate and, therefore, the best candidates for the topic that you're going after. The generation below us really wants to help other people climb. Yeah. It's not so selfish anymore, is it? No. And I think, for women in particular, there's this perception of cattiness or, like, competitiveness amongst women. And I do think we're in a moment where, like, women are really banding together and it could be the political environment or what have you. But female entrepreneurship in particular, I think it's, like, both a hot topic, but an area where we're making progress and that there's a lot of support. So Jen and I both, you know, supported each other as co-founders, and that created part of the culture in our company. We've had 35 companies started out of Rent the Runway. So employees leaving to go start their own companies, many of which were women. So I also think we're seeing this, like, multiplier effect where women are at entrepreneurial startups and they're kind of like, hey, I can do this or I've been inspired or, like, you know, this founder was my mentor and now I'm going to go and go after my own dream. Well, Jenny's dream is to be involved with companies in their early stages. So she has since stepped down from Rent the Runway and joined a new startup called Code 8, which is actually a part of Walmart's new technology incubator. Jenny's new project will be creating highly personalized, one-to-one online shopping experiences. Was it a hard decision to step away? Bittersweet for sure. I think, you know, it's always, I think you're leaving your baby a little bit. Yeah. But it's a moment when the company is in such a good place, both from a financial standpoint and from a team standpoint. So we have an amazing executive team. I think the culture of the company is still so strong and so intact, you know. Jen is there leading as CEO day to day. So it feels good because obviously I trust her very implicitly. And I still am very much kind of embedded in what the company is and the DNA. So I think it's a different type of talent that you realize is the best answer for your company. And, like, I joke sometimes that I've hired myself out of eight jobs. I think it's both finding the people who have the right ability to scale the business, but also people who love different stages of the company because that passion and entrepreneurship is so important.