Best friends, Bianca Gates & Marisa Sharkey shared a mutual frustration of finding comfortable, stylish slippers to wear while entertaining in their homes and teamed up to solve the problem for women around the globe. Bianca spent 15 years leading marketing and advertising at Univision, MTV, Facebook and Instagram. She helped some of the biggest home and fashion companies in the world, build their brands and accelerate the growth and was eager to jump at the opportunity to do that with Birdies Slippers. Marisa was born for a career in the retail industry. She grew up learning from her father, a retail veteran, and would spend weekends tagging along with him going store-to-store learning about retail trends. After earning an MBA, she joined Bain & Company and worked with leadership teams across retailers and consumer brands to help develop and execute growth strategies before joining Ross Stores as the Group Vice President of Strategy.
“Be obsessed with your idea and the problem that you are solving, your obsession is what’s going to take you far. Start small and then scale big, a lot of people say they have to create this big business plan and they have to worry about fundraising and how are they going to attack it, just start it in the kitchen, just start. Ask for help, be specific”…[Listen for More]
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