Jennifer Hyman CEO built her $120 million company with a simple 2-word lesson:

Jennifer Hyman says she learned one of the most important lessons of her career as a 22-year-old intern

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Rent the Runway CEO started her company as a Harvard graduate student

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Beautiful high end clothes to be rented for cheap would "cannibalize" her consumer base

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Rent the Runway wasn't necessarily aimed at von Furstenberg's customers

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Younger people who wouldn't normally be able to afford DVF clothes.

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In other words, they could help von Furstenberg grow her consumer base

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Jennifer Hyman CEO of Rent The Runway with Husbands.

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