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Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal (2017)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How Did You Come Up With the Cash to Open a Shop?

How did you come up with the cash to do it? Well, we had saved, made a little money. And i spent six months running around to everyone i knew who had any wealth and offering em half to business for ten thousand dollars. There was no such thing as venture capital in those days. You could have bought half of crate barrel for ten thousand box in, like, 19 63. At the end of the day, the only person who gave us the money was my father. He Lent the seven thousand dollars, probably all the money he had in cash.

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