Italic & a New Era of Online Retail

01/06/22 • 72 min

We sit down with Jeremy Cai, the CEO of new retail pioneer Italic, for a fascinating discussion of how they're upending the traditional manufacturer-brand-retailer model by taking the opposite approach of earlier DTC startups. Rather than elevating brand and cutting out retail, Italic cuts out the brand and lets the actual manufacturers (who you've never heard of but who make most of the actual products that J. Crew, Everlane, etc sell) market and sell direct to customers.

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The Generalist's FTX piece with Race Capital's Public Investment Memo

Picture: Chris and Edith with Jihan Wu, Founder of Bitmain

Picture: Edith with Anatoly (Solana founder) and Min Kim (ICON co-founder)

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