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Founder · Operator · Executive
Julie Wainwright and the second life of beautiful things
A friend bought a secondhand designer piece. Julie Wainwright saw a business. After Pets.com, she built The RealReal around a deceptively demanding promise: make strangers trust what was in someone else’s closet.
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Executive · Founder · Operator
Rati Levesque
Rati Sahi Levesque is the President and CEO of The RealReal, the publicly traded luxury resale marketplace she helped build from a single employee desk in 2011 into a $2 billion GMV business. A born-and-raised San Franciscan with a UC Santa Cruz economics degree and a former Russian Hill boutique behind her, she succeeded founder Julie Wainwright in October 2024 and steered the company to its first year of positive Adjusted EBITDA in every quarter.
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