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Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How Much of Your Success Was Because of Luck?

We went and tried to get debt because we figured like why give up equity? And if we could just get some loans to help us fund this inventory that we needed. We ended up getting a $200,000 SBA loan. The company had to sign probably 400 documents, including one that said we weren't going to use the money to open a zoo. It was really constrained by our ability to purchase inventory at this point.

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