Victoria Smith
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7,704 appearances
37 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 31 Aug
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My name is Victoria Smith, and this week I'm joined by Colby Mitchell, the founder of Swan Beauty.
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If you were on the internet a couple weeks ago, you heard at least something about Acquired Styles Bachelorette Trip that was sponsored by a beauty tech company making smart mirrors, which was Swan Beauty.
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Given the element of the beauty tech, the AI, the
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Personalization.
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I thought it'd be really interesting to have Colby on the podcast to go behind the scenes of not only the trip and how it came to be, why it made sense, where the funding came from, but also behind the scenes of the business, of the product, and of this industry.
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We only had 30 minutes to record, so this is a bit of a shorter episode, but I think we still touch on the main points and questions that.
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Some of you guys had sent in.
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Swan Beauty and Colby Touches On It is funded by their family office, the Mitchell family office.
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I've heard from other people as well.
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For example, Bianca Rangecroft was on the podcast, founder of Wearing, based in London.
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And she talked about how she had worked at and with family offices and then went back to a lot of those people when she was fundraising for her.
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And that it gives a lot more flexibility for founders than raising from VCs does because a VC wants a pretty quick return on their investment and is going to put certain pressures and maybe restrictions on the business.
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I don't know if a VC would have okayed doing something like this trip.
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Obviously, for brand awareness, it was insane.
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Return.
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But I think for any founders listening, I would look into pitching family offices for your startup.
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Specifically, I think if it is fashion tech.
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And this is again, I'll link the episode with Bianca.
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But it was someone who had that money who was like, you know what?
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Yeah, I need this product and I am your target user.
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