Eyewear Episodes

He sold the family business, watched someone else run it into the ground, and then bought it back. Rose Hamilton, CEO of Compass Rose Ventures and co-host of The Story of a Brand Show, sits down with Ryan Alovis, CEO of LensDirect.com, for one of the most honest and layered founder conversations the show has ever hosted. LensDirect has been in Ryan's family for a hundred years; from a great-grandfather selling frames off a pushcart on the Lower East Side to one of the most fiercely independent online vision care companies in America. This is not a comeback story. It's a discipline story.....

When a brand makes you smile just by looking at it, you know there’s something special going on.  That’s exactly how I felt when I discovered IZIPIZI ,  a company on a mission to bring style, joy, and accessibility to eyewear. In this episode, I sit down with Charles Brun , Co-founder and CEO of IZIPIZI , to explore how they transformed a simple idea into a global...