Justine Harmon
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Podcast Appearances
With Victoria firmly in charge, Les Wexner was becoming richer and richer.
And his fortune didn't only come from Victoria's Secret.
It came from his other companies, too.
Lane Bryant, Bath & Body Works, and Abercrombie & Fitch.
Yep, another brand that targeted hot young things, much like Victoria's Secret.
What Les did with the brand became such a big story, such an apocryphal NBA wet dream, that you might even remember people talking about it in the social network.
So in this scene, Mark Zuckerberg is at a nightclub with the guy who founded Napster.
And that guy is telling him that miracles happen in business when the right guy gets involved.
As Justin Timberlake's Sean Parker puts it,
A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to buy his wife some lingerie.
He comes up with a high-end place that doesn't make you feel like a pervert.
After five years, he sells the company to Leslie Wexner for a big payday.
Except that wasn't the way the story ended.
At least not for Roy Raymond.
While Les Wexner got to work on proving his board wrong and turning Victoria's Secret into a household name, Roy Raymond continued to try and disrupt other marketplaces with varying degrees of success.
He and his business partner co-founded a store for women who had cancer.
We offered everything from hair pieces to lingerie, pretty mastectomy lingerie, as opposed to orthopedic.
type bras we had a salon we had massage we had scarf tying uh people could come in that didn't want to wear a wig that we'd teach them how to do scarves we did makeup and again it was the vision and it was his it was my business but it was his vision did you ever get a sense from him how he felt about victoria's secret after he exited the business
The only thing that I know is that the everything changed as it grew.