Katrina Lake was born on December 24,1982 and is an American businesswoman who is the Founder and interim CEO of Stitch Fix, a fashion-based subscription service.
20 Facts About Katrina Lake
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In 2017, Lake became the youngest woman to take a company public at age 34 and was the only woman in 2017 to lead an initial public offering in technology.
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Katrina Lake was surpassed by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2021, who took Bumble public at age 31.
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Katrina Lake was born on December 24,1982, in San Francisco.
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Katrina Lake's mother is a Japanese immigrant who taught in the public school system.
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Katrina Lake's father is a transplant hepatologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota and previously at UCSF.
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Katrina Lake initially wanted to become a doctor before she became an entrepreneur.
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Katrina Lake began on the pre-med course but became very interested in economics and business.
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Katrina Lake received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 2005 and earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 2011.
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Katrina Lake worked at Polyvore and management consultancy The Parthenon Group after graduating from Stanford.
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Katrina Lake collected SurveyMonkey data from her clients to get a sense of their style.
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At its early stages, Katrina Lake did not even have the Internet capabilities to charge her customers and required trust from her clients to pay her monthly.
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In 2012, Katrina Lake was introduced to Netflix VP of data science and engineering Eric Colson, who initially dismissed the business model as "whimsical" but within months joined the company as "chief algorithms officer".
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Katrina Lake has combined data science with marketing to grow the business.
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Katrina Lake was listed as one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business and in the 2016 Fortune 40 under 40.
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Katrina Lake was the only woman to take an internet company public in 2017.
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Katrina Lake is a board member at Grubhub and beauty company Glossier.
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Katrina Lake appeared as a guest shark on Season 11, Episode 14 of the ABC show Shark Tank, which aired on March 6,2020.
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Lori Greiner of HSN and Katrina Lake teamed up to make a deal with a young budding company for children's glasses, Pair Eyewear.
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In June 2023, Katrina Lake became Independent Director of Recruit Holdings Co.