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Gwen Whiting and Lindsey Wieber Discuss Factors That Led To Timing For Starting Business

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  • Date Added : 3/28/2005
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Gwen Whiting

  • Co-founder, The Laundress
  • female
  • Caucasian
  • 1976 (Age: 48 years old)
  • Lindsey Wieber & Gwen Whiting - Interview - The Laundress
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Biography

Lindsey Wieber and Gwen Whiting are co-founders of The Laundress. The Laundress provides a luxury fabric care and specialty detergent line to take the chore out of laundry.

Prior to co-founding The Laundress, Whiting was a Senior Designer of the Ralph Lauren Home Collection for five years. Prior to her work in Home Collection, her experience at Ralph Lauren included women's wear and Polo Store development.

Gwen Whiting received an undergraduate degree in Textile and Apparel Design and Management from Cornell University.

We were like where are we going? W: Like we're ready. Do we want to go back to school? We were in that kind of limbo. Are we going to business school? That kind of stage where people all - where we saw our friends going to law school. Or friends going and doing these things where we are like...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 6 Gwen Whiting and Lindsey Wieber Discuss Background Of Company, The Laundress
  • Lindsey Wieber & Gwen Whiting - Interview - The Laundress
  • 3/14/2005
  • Lindsey Wieber
  • 1 min. 41 sec.
Video 2 of 6 Gwen Whiting and Lindsey Wieber State Company Philospohy Is Based on Practicality
  • Lindsey Wieber & Gwen Whiting - Interview - The Laundress
  • 3/14/2005
  • Lindsey Wieber
  • 0 min. 57 sec.
Video 3 of 6 Gwen Whiting and Lindsey Wieber Discuss Challenge of Gaining Initial Funding For The Laundress
  • Lindsey Wieber & Gwen Whiting - Interview - The Laundress
  • 3/14/2005
  • Lindsey Wieber
  • 2 min. 9 sec.
Video 4 of 6 Gwen Whiting and Lindsey Wieber Discuss Passion to Start A Business
  • Lindsey Wieber & Gwen Whiting - Interview - The Laundress
  • 3/14/2005
  • Gwen Whiting
  • 2 min. 8 sec.
Video 5 of 6 Gwen Whiting and Lindsey Wieber Discuss Factors That Led To Timing For Starting Business
  • Lindsey Wieber & Gwen Whiting - Interview - The Laundress
  • 3/14/2005
  • Gwen Whiting
  • 2 min. 7 sec.
Video 6 of 6 Gwen Whiting and Lindsey Wieber Discuss Importance of Talking to People
  • Lindsey Wieber & Gwen Whiting - Interview - The Laundress
  • 3/14/2005
  • Gwen Whiting
  • 1 min. 4 sec.

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