Quotes from Jennifer Hyman

Like any startup in hyper-growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team.

Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.

I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.

I had this thesis that we had entered the experience economy. People were getting married later and starting to value experiences like travel over owning things.

I can dance to Beyonce, sing karaoke, create strategy, go on dates, and build a multi-billion company and show the world that women can build big businesses.

As opposed to thinking about ourselves as disrupting the fashion industry, we're thinking about ourselves more broadly - about disrupting the closet and how you get dressed.

As a little kid, I would watch Oprah almost every day.

Taking the time to identify and infuse values certainly does affect outcomes and is one of the most important things to get right as the CEO.

I think layering is key for fall along with a really colorful scarf to bring spiciness to the outfit.

I'm a magazine junkie. I have 30 different subscriptions to various magazines, and I like old-school, real magazines.

In many cases, women are being harassed by people who are on their board or who are associated with one of their venture capitalists.

I studied social studies at Harvard, which makes it sound like I was in seventh grade. It was a choose-your-own-adventure major, where you could decide what you were going to focus on.

I dream of a not-so-distant future in which every woman can wake up, decide what she'll wear from the millions of styles in her digital dream closet, and have her outfit magically delivered to her before she finishes her coffee.

I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? What are you most passionate about?

In the early years of Rent the Runway, our challenge was twofold: getting investors to buy into our vision for how the world was changing and getting women to understand that renting was a viable - let alone a smarter - alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on dresses they would wear just once.

We've found that employees who live full, happy lives tend to be the most effective contributors.

Because entrepreneurship is so hard and does take so long to build something great, you do have to build an environment that you yourself as an entrepreneur want to work in for the next 20 years.

In the morning at home, I'm not functioning as an entrepreneur - I completely limit technology and any work-think - I'm functioning as a mom and a wife.

I'm obsessed with 'New York' magazine.

If your work isn't mission-driven or emotionally resonant to you, it will be very hard to maintain passion and focus over a long period of time, which is critical in entrepreneurship.