823 Advizers
Bill
CEO & Co-Founder
Wild One
University of Pennsylvania
UCLA Anderson MBA
Q1Career path
Entrepreneurial Journey
Career Pivoting
Management Consulting
10:04
"I had always wanted to do something more entrepreneurial... I loved LA, but I knew that Warby Parker was a phenomenal opportunity."
Q2Main responsibilities
Teamwork
Strategic Planning
Executive/Leadership
2:04
"No one person can do it all themselves, but really need to set our whole team up for success."
Q3Day in the life
Executive/Leadership
Communication
Problem-Solving
1:07
"no two days are the same"
Q4Most important skills - role
Financial Literacy
Leadership
Prioritization
2:26
"Often less is more, um, do fewer things better, and that is a skill that is useful throughout your entire career and happen on a daily basis."
Q5Favorite parts - role
Career Development
Teamwork
Leadership
0:52
"It's really, really rewarding component of the role."
Q6Biggest challenge - role
Achieving Goals
Overcoming Challenges
Executive/Leadership
1:40
"You have to be both optimistic and pessimistic at the same time."
Q7Favorite parts - industry
Pet Industry
Startups
Consumer Goods
1:29
"I always like to make sure that my kind of macro environment is, is positive as well."
Q8Who thrives in industry
Adaptability
Flexibility
Ambiguity Tolerance
1:05
"Priorities will shift...and you have to be really comfortable with adapting to those kind of changing, both internal and external, environment conditions."
Q9Wish known before - industry
Emotional Intelligence
Entrepreneurship
Executive/Leadership
1:28
"It is very difficult to sort of separate yourself from the business and not take things so deeply, because you started this from zero."
Q10Entry-level positions
Business Experience
Startups
Analytical Skills
2:21
"just don't get stuck in them if it's not what you eventually want to do."
Q11Significant lesson - career
Executive/Leadership
Career Development
Communication
1:56
"In addition to mastering your own function...also kind of be a sponge and soak up everything else around you."
Q12College ideas for success
Discipline
Problem-Solving
Teamwork
1:50
"you learn how to problem solve, how to think critically"