Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake at Stanford ETL on building the company through investor skepticism about women's retail, raising less than peers, and going public anyway.
Firsthand account of raising while pattern-mismatched to VC expectations, from a founder who IPO'd with minimal dilution.
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