345. From “Out There” Idea to Winning Reality with Lauryn Vaughn

Lauryn Vaughn is the founder of The Upside (now The Revente), a technology-enabled community marketplace for digital resale of women’s clothing, handbags, shoes, fine jewelry, and accessories. Empowering women to monetize the latent assets in their closets. 

Lauryn and her team launched The Upside in early 2016 and have established themselves as the largest online designation for the resale of authentic, sustainable designer goods. It hasn’t stopped there though, Lauryn has been focused on solving the problem of creating new users in an industry that is pegged to be a $64B industry by 2028. 

With this in mind, she and her team have developed an API integrated software that partners with retailers to advance their ESG mandate and facilitate participation in the circular economy at the time of first purchase. 

In this episode you will hear:

• Turning an in-person experience into an online empire.
• Thrifting versus the circular economy.
• Lauryn’s vision to disrupt the marketplace.
• The importance of divine timing in business.
• The secret “messiness” entrepreneurship.
• Redefining wealth, why money is a byproduct.
• Building her billion-dollar empire one step at a time.

Connect with Lauryn on Instagram @the_revente 

CLICK HERE to visit her website.