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Neil Blumenthal: Everything at Warby Parker starts with our values
KANSAS CITY—Transparency continues to serve as one of Warby Parker’s core values. Blumenthal wanted to treat people the way he wanted to be treated.
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Fast Company honors faces familiar to the Silicon Prairie community
We’re thrilled to see Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” list released on Monday. This year’s list features four faces familiar to the Silicon Prairie community as introduced to us through Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa over the last year. …
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Big Omaha Backstage Pass – Neil Blumenthal: Creating that change
“We’re trying to revolutionize the eyewear industry,” Neil Blumenthal, co-founder of Warby Parker, said, “and revolutionize the way people think about for-profits, because we think that for-profits can be catalyst for change – if they’re stake holder centric, if they think about other people other than just their shareholders. And that might be, you know…
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Big Omaha Video Series: Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
Today, we’re pleased to share with the you the third video in our Big Omaha 2011 Video Series, brought to you by CoSentry. The video features Neil Blumenthal, one of the Founders of Warby Parker, a company that he and three friends launched in early 2010 with the belief “that eyewear can be a powerful…
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Big Omaha – Neil Blumenthal: ‘Glasses are fun, but they are un-fun when they are $500’
The past three months have been a whirlwind for Neil Blumenthal. On February 15, he and his co-founders launched Warby Parker with features in GQ and Vogue. Three weeks after launch, his designer frames and eyeglass company shattered their one year target sales goals, sold out of their top 15 styles, and had a waiting…
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Big Omaha 2011: Friday speakers in the spotlight
Haven’t had time to study up on all of this year’s Big Omaha speakers? Not to worry; we can help you cram. We’ve combed the world wide interwebs to come up with a couple of stories, interviews, videos or otherwise noteworthy nuggets on each of our Big Omaha presenters so that you can brush up…