Drybar Founder Alli Webb on Scaling a $200+ Million Dollar Business without a College Degree

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Alli Webb was a stay-at-home mom for five years when she realized she needed to get out of the house more. So she started a mobile hair business. She’d go house-to-house and offer $40 blowouts to moms in LA, something that pretty much no one was doing at the time. She soon opened her first brick and mortar and called it Drybar. 100+ locations later, Alli sold the company for more than $200 million. All without a college degree or formal business training. In this episode of 9 to 5ish, Alli shares: The sunshine and beach-haired days of her childhood growing up in Boca Raton How having parents who operated a small biz gave her life lessons in entrepreneurship Why it felt intoxicating building and scaling Drybar, plus the mental cost that came with it How her divorce, son’s visit to rehab, and burnout led to her book, “The Messy Truth” Why she felt intimidated when fundraising + curating the Drybar board – and how she got through it

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Lily Pulitzer.
0:02.8	They're celebrating 65 years of creating sunshine.
0:06.6	We will explain more about that in a bit,
0:08.8	but first, let's get into the episode.
0:11.1	It was a very like poignant moment for me of feeling like I may not be as like smart on paper as these
0:19.9	guys who have these fancy degrees, but I did have this idea for this really kick-ass business
0:25.3	that seems to be really resonating to people.
0:28.1	I'm Carly Zaken, and I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:32.1	Welcome to Nine to Five-ish with the skin.
0:34.8	We've run into so many questions over the years
0:37.7	and had so many moments where we needed advice
0:41.0	and we got it from women who'd been there.
0:44.0	And that's what we're bringing you at this show.
0:46.0	Each week we're helping you get what you want out of your career
0:49.0	by talking to the smartest leaders we know.
0:52.0	Because we know your work life is a lot more than 9 to 5.
0:56.8	All right, let's get into it.
1:00.8	Hi everyone, today our guest is Ali Webb.
1:03.0	Ali is a New York Times best-selling author and the co-founder of Dry Bar.
1:08.0	Back in 2009 when Ali was a stay-at-home mom, she started a mobile hair business.
1:13.6	She charged just 40 bucks for a full blowout,
1:16.3	something that pretty much no one was offering at the time,
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