Oct 17, 2018

The RealReal CEO Julie Wainwright isn’t afraid of growing too fast

Julie Wainwright is CEO of luxury consignment company The RealReal. Courtesy of The RealReal

Used luxury goods are a big market.

Would you buy a used luxury brand handbag? Maybe a watch or some shoes? Think Gucci, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, to name just a few. Julie Wainwright, CEO of The RealReal, knows pre-owned luxury goods are a big market, which led her to start her company. “We should be over a billion [dollars in sales] next year if we do our job right,” Wainwright told us during a tour of her e-commerce center in Secaucus, New Jersey.

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