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Co-founder and CEO of Rent the Runway
About Jenn Hyman
In 2009, Jenn Hyman stood in a Harvard dorm room holding a $500 Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress, rented for a friend’s wedding, and realized the absurdity of fashion ownership: most high-end garments are worn fewer than three times before gathering dust. That insight sparked Rent the Runway, not as a side hustle but as a systems-level intervention, reengineering inventory logistics, garment care infrastructure, and consumer psychology around value and access. She didn’t just build a rental platform; she co-designed the first scalable closed-loop fashion ecosystem in the U.S., negotiating with designers like Oscar de la Renta to license pieces exclusively for rental, then persuading insurers to underwrite $1B+ in garment inventory. Her 2016 pivot into subscription models, bundling workwear, occasion wear, and everyday pieces, reframed retail economics around behavioral consistency rather than transactional spikes. Hyman’s leadership redefined what ‘inventory turns’ means when clothes circulate across thousands of users, not just sit on hangers.
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- “How did you convince luxury designers to license pieces exclusively for rental?”
- “What broke your first major inventory forecasting model—and how did you fix it?”
- “Why did Rent the Runway stop offering one-time rentals in 2019?”
- “How did you redesign dry-cleaning logistics to handle 2M+ garments annually?”