#53 - Andy Dunn, Founder of Bonobos

08/09/21 • 21 min

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Andy Dunn is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Bonobos, which is an apparel company founded with the goal of providing men with better fitting pants. The brand has grown to become a premier destination for men’s clothing. In 2007, Andy wanted to prove that the Internet was going to become the core medium for story-telling, for delivering great service, and for transacting goods.” In founding and developing Bonobos, Dunn helped define and prove a new model for vertically integrated fashion retail in the e-commerce era. Walmart acquired Bonobos in 2017 for $310 million, keeping Dunn on as Senior Vice President of Digital Consumer Brands. In addition to Bonobos, Andy is the founder of Red Swan Ventures and Monica + Andy.

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#52 - Lainy Painter, Partner at Craft Ventures

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Lainy Painter is a partner at Craft Ventures on the investment team, where she invests primarily in SaaS and Marketplaces and has a particular interest in complex vertical markets, such as real estate, healthcare, education, construction, and financial services. Prior to Craft, Lainy worked at Battery Ventures in San Francisco. Previously, Lainy worked at Gainsight, a B2B customer success startup where she helped lead business operations and strategy across the organization, including initiatives to grow services revenue and drive product adoption.

Lainy started her career at Goldman Sachs on the technology, media and telecom investment banking team, advising companies including PayPal, LinkedIn, Zendesk and 2U. She graduated summa cum laude from the College of William and Mary.

Lainy is an active member of All Raise, the non-profit dedicated to increasing representation in venture capital. She served as Co-Chair for the 2018, 2019, and 2020 Women Who Venture Summits.

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#54 - Jonathan Javier, CEO of Wonsulting

Jonathan Javier is the CEO/Founder of Wonsulting, which is focused on turning underdogs into winners: helping hundreds of thousands who come from non-target schools/non-traditional backgrounds to get them into their dream careers. Jonathan’s story comes from when he was in college at the University of California Riverside. He was applying to hundreds of different roles expecting responses back from his dream companies but when he didn't receive responses back from any, he would always think "Is it my resume? My interview skills? My background?" However, Jonathan changed that perspective and realized that you can get into your dream job without applying, by simply utilizing LinkedIn. For all of his roles to work at Snap, Google, and Cisco, he never applied; Jonathan used unconventional methods which are shared throughout our discussion. Wonsulting started in 2019 as an idea at first; but quickly grew to something even greater with growing their community to 600K+ on all of their social media platforms combined.