How I Sold My Start-Up To Lululemon For $500 Million

Meet Brynn Putnam. The CEO and founder secured $3 million in venture capital to fund her tech-based fitness company MIRROR on the same day that she gave birth to her son.
In the summer of 2020, Putnam sold MIRROR for $500 million to Lululemon. The pandemic has been good for business. MIRROR ads are plastered across New York’s subway, airing on TV and clogging up social media channels.
But selling a company for half a billion dollars is just a small part of her story and frankly, not even the most interesting.
There are three numbers to watch out for in this story. $15,000: The amount Brynn had in her savings when she quit ballet. $3 million: Her first outside investment. $500 million: The amount she sold MIRROR for in 2020.
Here’s how Brynn Putnam built a company worth half a billion dollars in just two years.
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How I Sold My Start-Up To Lululemon For $500 Million

[@lightthgil007]

She mentioned that she sketched up the business idea with her husband at home on the back of some napkins. What she didn't mention was that her husband, a grandson of the founder of Putnam Investments and a former banker at Lehman Brothers, just sold a tech startup (Quovo) for 200 million earlier that year (2019).

[@salgado96as]

Everyone tells their story as if they came build an empire from crumbs so it can be inspirational if MAke It really told the real story no one would watch it

[@ArtfulChaosX]

Hah! She dedicated lots of hard work for sure but a security blanket sure helps.

[@niceguy9790]

connections make the difference

[@solothebest1850]

Well I guess it really does make a difference if you surround yourself with successful people.

[@okinoboo4743]

LOL

[@juniordev2570]

People also forget that coming from a privileged background means a lot more than just money. Her whole life she has been rubbing shoulders with other elite people. All the people in her parents social circles, at ballet, at Harvard. Those connections are invaluable when doing things like starting a business, trying to secure funding, etc.

[@1234abcd12344]

Nailed it! They try to make it seem like, "anyone could do it". That's just not true.

[@Lebronwski]

you are of a privileged background, you can speak english and you live in the US. You are more privilged than at least 75% of the worlds population. Go do something with it

[@Lebronwski]

@@1234abcd12344 Yea no one else can do this now that she has done it.

[@yevgenia7785]

I think we also underestimate the fact that being among such people and communicating with them helps one get an overview of the business world much quicker. While others need to figure out how everything works such people have the understating of it since the young age. But of course the effort is the main factor here.

[@sashanoel8766]

Exactly!

[@solarsolicitor9618]

What a beast. Harvard, ballet, building a huge business and having kids. Legit

[@Basedjeevs]

@@Ahmad-tv4vy what tf is non traditional ??? lmao

[@PolntBlank]

Yeah, I couldn't imagine having funds for Harvard, doing ballet, and having kids. I could only do the kids part. Am I inferior? I wanna be a legit beast

[@bottle17528]

What has her partner done all through this? They should get credit as well

[@sofieah6769]

Bahahaahhaaha. Anyone who grew up doing ballet screams PRIVILEGE. A white Harvard educated woman is a success story? SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! How many investors would have opened those same doors for a Black person or anyone with a heavy accent?

[@PolntBlank]

@@bottle17528 what if she came home stressed asf and verbally abused him every single night and he never got laid anymore

[@tracy_cakkes]

Hearing that she went to those meetings by herself despite being told to find a male co-founder and at 9-months pregnant? She’s amazing and so inspiring 🧡 Women r such bosses

[@goldenboyi1989]

Nothing special here-she just looks like someone who grew up and was afforded privilege by the way she looks and her stature.I bet most people from the ghettos or the Bronx cant secure such financing

[@chelseagirl278]

@@goldenboyi1989 why are you bringing down a woman and her achievements. Shame on you!

[@goldenboyi1989]

@@chelseagirl278 she grew up with privilege and just look at her.Take a person from the Bronx with exactly the same idea and make them ask for funding.I can GUARANTEE you that they will get ZERO Funding

[@echegaraysofia]

@@goldenboyi1989 Yes, she grew up with privilege. The entire game of startups is pretty much limited to folks from a tiny sliver of society. Just like the winter olympics. Still the top skiers or hockey players are still doing something exemplary. So is she.

[@tracy_cakkes]

@@goldenboyi1989 did u watch the video? Sure she may have more “privilege” than someone on the streets but she found a cheap place to rent, had an idea, built that idea into a product with her hands, was told to find a guy to do it and still went to an intimidating meeting with investors. She took $15,000 and turned into something bigger. As a woman I find this to be inspiring. Instead of being jealous and downplaying her success, maybe u should focus on working on yourself. It’s called scapegoating. Look it up

[@alexanderzhukov3773]

Her father worked for sale division in Google and her husband is from old money. Such an inspiration for all privileged kids over there. 😂

[@Jesse-ii5md]

Lol

[@bonnief181]

I'm a Mirror owner since 2019 and believe one aspect that makes it so successful is the quality of the personal trainers they have hired. The ability to personal train from my home with TOP HIGHLY desired professional fitness stars was amazing before the pandemic and down right incredible once they restarted during the pandemic.

[@zerocal76]

They knew that was critical which is why they took so long to be on the market. Its crazy how many business ppl don't understand the importance of QUALITY

[@danl.4743]

Hi Bonnie, I am very curious and confused about what this Mirror does. It is like a mirror that you can see the trainer and yourself in it, and you both communicate with each other like in a video chat? Or is the trainer is a video that was previously recorded and you are just watching it and yourself at the same time? Can you talk with each other? Please give some details? Thanks!

[@bonnief181]

​@@danl.4743 It's as close to in personal training as it can be = without being in the same room. There is a video camera working both ways so you see the trainer and the trainer sees you. You can also talk to each other. Totally LIVE and very personalized to your specific needs, as well as what equipment you have in your home. The trainer designs the program just for YOU! No pre-recording. Please ask me anything else that may be helpful.

[@jackng9797]

@@bonnief181 Outside of the personal training sessions, do you do workout with Mirror on your own and does the Mirror do anything to help your own sessions? Also curious if the price not put you off? Could you not get similar training benefits elsewhere?

[@bonnief181]

I do some live classes but I'm really not a class person - which is too bad because these classes are incredible. I just don't have the same motivation. The price put my husband off but not me 😂. I bought this before there were zoom classes - that being said, the Mirror classes are much clearer than zoom. If you pay money to take classes then you will find this cost effective - minus the initial investment! I just love what the Personal Training has added to my routine. @@jackng9797

[@austinbranion8699]

I really wish her background was explored more. A throwaway detail in the beginning is that as a three year old she she jumped “on stage” at one of her parents’ dinner parties and “started to dance with the band.” Like... just what kind of money did she grow up with that her parents are hosting dinner parties at places with stages and can hire bands?!! That’s not relatable AT ALL, and that’s before you even get to the ballet school and Harvard education lol. I don’t doubt that she worked hard-clearly she did!-but this just illustrates that elites are very good at reproducing elite status. Meritocracy is more and more dynasticism in disguise.

[@awijaya2116]

I wouldn't go so far as to call it dynasticism, but it definitely plays into the hands of people that already have access to resources. Meritocracy doesn't guarantee success for the already wealthy, but it does stack the deck in their favor. Dynastic would imply guaranteed success, and that's simply not true. Part of it is because the average person in the upper, middle and lower classes don't actually differ much in terms of raw intelligence. It's access to resources - connections, education, even nutrition - that are the main differentiator. You'll still get successful rags-to-riches stories, but we celebrate those _because_ they're outliers in every respect.

[@austinbranion8699]

@@awijaya2116 I don’t think we disagree? There’s a reason I said meritocracy is “more and more” dynasticism-I don’t think it’s there quite yet, but increasingly so. Your point is well taken

[@awijaya2116]

@@austinbranion8699 Oh no I'm not disagreeing with you, just adding the reasons meritocracy isn't all it's cracked up to be before someone else picks that hill to die on.

[@miriammoriarty8588]

Yes, agree. She almost certainly came from privilege. Just taking enough ballet lessons to get to professional status costs a fortune. And to save money as a dancer suggests she was living at home / her parents were supporting her. Dancers are paid a pittance. In saying that, she leveraged her opportunities, took risks, worked hard etc. But we don't talk about how many people from disadvantage work hard too. It's just that they're so far behind the starting line it's impossible to catch up.

[@miriammoriarty8588]

@@awijaya2116 100%.

[@mjsfamous]

The fact that she sold a sideways TV, with a mirror look business for 500 million is mind-blowing.

[@iluvmybangs]

Amen

[@267cal]

Maybe If i had her looks

[@j.c.4192]

That just sounds like it can be easily replicated and Lululemon spent some dumb money.

[@Will_Moffett]

It must be nice to be White.

[@spankminister]

The tech for the iPhone all existed separately, the genius was in fitting them together to solve a problem people didn't know they had.

[@jamess.9743]

When you come from a well to do family, you can take risks and know full well you can land back on your feet if/when you fail. When you're helping pay for your father's chemo treatments, tuition for your youngest sibling, car payment, and rent you wouldn't risk taking some bs degree or take risks like making a startup.

[@excalibur1177]

@@Mo-zx4ez and most of them don't

[@dataassassin280]

@James S. Good point. So there's absolutely no way a person from an upper class background become self-made?

[@memespeech]

@@Mo-zx4ez probablities are a thing m8 and there are lots of parameters that affect the total, and they aren't static. But you know an asteroid can also fall on your head right now. Also survivor bias, don't just look on the ones succeeding, but also look on how many and how hard have failed, and what was their individual initial million of various stats sliders set to.

[@ITISKONY]

@@dataassassin280 Self - made? When you have 1.5 million trust fund? 🤣🤣🤣

[@dataassassin280]

@@ITISKONY how do you know she has a trust fund though much less a 1.5 million trust fund

[@jewlzn7130]

She is an inspiration- no way to downplay her success. She is incredible

[@pennsylvan3436]

Definitely will say she worked hard, but she had a WHOLE LOT of help. She was born to a ricm family with connections, went to Harvard and met more people with connections, married someone who works and has a family in the loan/funding business, and was in contact with several big money funders before even going public. Not trying to downplay her, but take her success with a grain of salt. She is an example of a rich person, surrounded by other rich people, who used her contacts with rich people to get even richer. To all the regular people out there: it is not this easy.

[@alexanderphilip1809]

@@pennsylvan3436 Not Impossible but definetly not easy, but i think from a multi generational standpoint it is possible for one generation to grow wealthy enough to smooth things out for the future generations.

[@tpop3723]

@@pennsylvan3436 People are too gullible and lack the critical thinking skills to understand that. For the average person chances are slim to none to succeed without good support and stats will bear that out.

[@r3dp1ll]

@@pennsylvan3436 thank you for the details. That is very important to understand this piece. Similar story with Bumble's CEO. UBER lucky girl.

[@r3dp1ll]

@@tpop3723 yes exactly. You just need to look at the stats. People like movies and novels ..

[@greybermatos6041]

She's such a visionary, I loved whe she said "this is the moment, I don't wanna miss the opportunity"

[@grecow3484]

Her opportunity started the day she was born into excessive wealth and didn't stop from that day. Education, marriage, connections - money, money, money. Difficult to fail, really…

[@MACNTOSFAM]

manhattan resident & harvard student... ding ding ding! she has a good ground to build from. no surprises there

[@naya4607]

$15k in savings yet please tell me how much in investments? How much mommy and daddy had?

[@brontec9769]

sure, this probably helped a lot with opening doors, but the product has traction and an audience - you can't argue with that

[@constancekang9914]

Harvard has need based financial aid, the fact her father paid suggests that her parents income is >$150k/yr

[@cm-15]

Still impressive nonetheless. Wasn’t easy as 123. Interesting cause I know someone who owns one.

[@jojotwice8918]

Ballet classes are expensive!

[@o.h.w.6638]

I love that she went straight for her Series A. Then Dev and straight to market. Smart!!

[@Offa7a]

Sounds like from the get go she was both financially and technically backed up.

[@jathebest2835]

Sounds "very" like..but it's upon the one who seizes the opportunities at a decent time. Besides, luck is one of the many factors for one's success..

[@facemaskfrank2726]

I really really really hate how these stories intentionally try to deceive us on why or how these people succeed. Notice how she threw out "$15,000" as how much she had in her savings account when she started this whole thing? What exactly do most people think when they hear this? They think "oh she started with so little money, I guess it just goes to show how amazing she was to pull it off! I guess anyone can do this!" This is such BS. Her dad paid more than $50,000 per year for her to learn "something". She chose Russian... Newsflash guys, she and her family are the opposite of strapped for cash. She may have had $15,000 in her savings account, but her daddy has 1000x that much in his. The money in her personal bank account was her allowance, the actual funding came from daddy. Why can't these people just admit how much privilege and help they got? Why mislead far more disadvantaged people into believing this BS story? What happens when someone poor "learns" from her story and tries to do the same thing? Instead of going to college with the aim of getting a decent paying job, poor kids with no help and no network think they can do what she did and lose their time/money crashing and burning because they never knew how much help she got. If you're rich and privileged, just be okay with that. Stop stroking your pathetic ego by inventing a rags to riches story. You got to where you are with a lot of help and that's okay because we all want our kids to have an easier life than we did and her dad or her grandfather probably worked hard to give her her privilege.

[@Ballista762]

Sounds like you're making excuses.

[@xlyal8908]

by her family jew money and connections . Exactly

[@no40]

@@facemaskfrank2726 100% agree. I can only imagine how many had fall prey into the narrative that has been stirred up by this news business web series.

[@dasaini]

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[@sunsetswitheli]

lol good one. the hospital bed / laptop one got me.

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[@ObsoleteTutorials]

The proper answer is "Yes."

[@Kitty_Demonix]

answer : YUS

[@AlexaMorales]

I noticed that too

[@bakermorrison9463]

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There are a lot of strategies to make tongue wetting profits especially in a down market but such sophisticated trades can only be carried out by proper market experts.

[@noahmichael3779]

She appears to be well-educated and well-read I ran a google search on her name and came across her website; Thank You for sharing.

[@jacobmason6217]

Her resume is mind blowing 😮just checked it out 😮😮..I really would give her a try

[@jay903ster]

Watching this made me not give up on the product invention I'm working on. I know I can make it work and I won't give up until I have it!

[@pleasedontlookatme78789]

I love the questions being asked!!

[@ilostsomethingonce]

This gave me chills. What an amazing story

[@quantumzerelth9140]

If a person studies a language at university they’ve got their future secured by their daddies.

[@calimon00]

Right, sure she's hard-working/thinking, but it doesn't hurt to know you always got a financial cushion/safety net and supportive family behind you.

[@quantumzerelth9140]

@@calimon00 exactly. You can take more casual risks and of course her daddy can connect her with the right people.

[@Littlekitten_]

Yep when I heard Harvard I knew she came from a rich family especially when she said she did ballet and went to school for a language .. that’s the biggest rich girl degree... I’m not that impressed with her story since having wealth helped her tremendously..

[@aprilkatie6752]

I knew girls who went to school for dance. I was like yeah. 🥴

[@zeroceiling]

April Katie ..well clearly…dancing paid of incredibly well for this girl…

[@InternetGirl1093]

I love how they summarize the key numbers in advance of getting into the details. Thank you CNBC.

[@varjunind1]

Interview: go deeper for me Brynn: (smirks) continues answering the Q like nothing happened. She’s truly an inspiration

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[@viviankuo5843]

Inspirational stuff!! Thank you for sharing this story!! She is soooo coool. Women are AMAZING

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[@Elizabethgreen779]

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[@kd368]

What a story, between hard work, risk, innovation, determination, right time right moment and passion, she did it. Hopefully her story will inspire many more me included.

[@miriamstrauss]

Couldn't agree more 💯

[@brianlogan341]

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[@AhmedKMoustafa2]

Ironwoman

[@PM-oh5xs]

Another sheep.

[@ko-Daegu]

yeah but kinda don't agree with risk

[@medicmandan2554]

Really enjoyed the interviewer's style...short, direct questions with a genuine tone and interest. It gives Brynn the opportunity to speak more and really navigate the course of the interview

[@brianlogan341]

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[@iSmellbak0n]

Facts

[@agirlinside3153]

i love CNBC make it series. its so good. thanks for starting this

[@kokoroyamada2993]

The most impressive part for me is that she gave a pitch to investors when she was 9 month pregnant. I can imagine how hard it was as a same woman. Powerful person!

[@munzmedia2917]

"Allowing people to do- to grow, I think is really powerful" This is the dialogue of a winner.

[@kr5478]

I’m so proud of Brynn. I used to go to Refine (UWS location), and LOVED their classes. I went to a few of her classes (where she actually led the class) and I remember her classes being so hard but really awesome.

[@choklitfactory]

Great story! Congrats to her and her determination! God bless

[@mlachaise]

I'm just in awe of her really good nose job.

[@emmarose7491]

Lmao same

[@andrewbacchus]

I had to stop the video a few times to check if it was the same person lmao

[@Littlekitten_]

But that haircut is horrible 😞😞

[@kkpitpfunme52]

Why do these people never mention their parent's role in providing a safety net to take these risks? Russian Litature? really, nothing screams I have 15k in my savings and 1.5 million in my trust account more than that degree. Edit: I think it is important to note with my comment that my intent is not to bash success but to instead complain about the lack of transparency a lot of these stories have. They are ignoring the foundation that allowed these people to achieve success. There is a huge difference between someone whose family can hardly feed them breakfast and they go on to achieve success through hard work. Contrast this to someone who quite literally wakes up knowing if she does nothing today she will still die loaded. It allows you peace of mind and the ability to focus that most people simply do not have time to do, due to other stresses and or pressures in their life. You can argue hard work but statistically growing up wealthy will result in being wealthy. Someone from an underprivileged background will have to work harder than the lady who knows failure just means another try in a month. Again, transparency allows people to compare and make better decisions, this video is just misleading, to say the least. I also think the onus is on the individual to highlight areas of their life that allowed them to achieve success and not brush past the very privileged background they came from that is typically most of the reason for their success.

[@smustipher]

When you grow up with a safety net, you don't know what it's like to not have one. Still, not everyone with a safety net works this hard (because of the safety net) as they are not under pressure to survive.....so, the safety net helped her, but she went above and beyond and KILLED it.

[@V12theGod]

I get the silver spoon theory but in almost all silver spool cases, it kills a person's will to go out and hustle. This wasn't handed to her to manage. She had to fight and claw from the beginning. If it was easy to start with money, why do so many lottery winners go broke ?

[@rerikm]

don't forget those harvard connections. there are more variables involved to achieve success

[@stephenmarfo1995]

She still had to work hard, I hate people who say things like this. People born with silver spoon in their mouth tend not to make much of themselves, she actually put a lot of effort in. Is like everyone glamourises being broke and making it from scratch. I don’t want that for my kids, I will give them a stepping stone and make sure they work hard to carry on the legacy

[@janschild]

@@V12theGod agreed..she worked really hard for her success regardless of her connections..

[@wondercorealbum1116]

Wow, she is amazing! What a role model in so many arenas!

[@AnnissaMW]

Amazing! Congratulations Brynn, you're an inspiration to all of us 💙

[@ExbotHero]

The fact that I instantly wanted to buy this product when I noticed it in its first ad said it all. (At the core I'm a really skeptical person.) This background story was the icing on the cake. It was a great story. Now I really need to find a way to buy it in Sweden

[@riza4086]

I seen this mirror tech wayy before it was used for a fitness setup. I remember coding similar software back then for a bathroom mirror also using Raspberry Pi. But having the the idea to put it into this and finding an angle to sell it is pretty clever. I think that's the difference between us tech people and people who are visionaries like Steve Jobs or her, I did not see outside the box.

[@DannyLoveJoy]

I’ve seen monitors built into mirrors, I’ve seen fitness app, and now that this is put together, i think why i didn’t think of this before. Genius.

[@Hussainpiplodwala]

You saw it in 2010?

[@GBlunted]

That's so dope... I love the tech in the story! I made an infinity mirror before but not a smart one...Rasberry Pi for the win! Nice work lady!

[@kstoff2218]

Best thing I have watched all year.

[@peterapazidis7561]

How does somebody with little to no engineering or coding experience just build a mirror like this? Where does one even start? This is impressive.

[@mikeyourbag8997]

The same way Steve Jobs did it for Apple. He hired others and took credit for the company.

[@godsfavoursunday9933]

@@mikeyourbag8997 even if you can code more often than not if your a CEO or founder most of your job will be trying to avoid the burn rate. Also, I wouldn't compare her to Steve Jobs, he was ALWAYS hands on in the company he may not have built the software directly but he played a huge part in the font systems and especially in the UX/UI. In addition jobs was well known for making the company extremely lean and efficient by cutting so many pointless products.

[@brontec9769]

With a perfect idea, you can outsource the skills needed to build. Being a founder is about having a vision, not necessarily tech skills.

[@starkapoorz]

@@brontec9769 So being a founder is about stealing the labor from others?

[@brontec9769]

@@starkapoorz I think you misinterpreted my comment. Being a founder is about ideas and innovation, whether you have tech skills or not isn't always so important or relevant as we can see in this case. If you want to be successful and grow your business, skills will always need to be outsourced at some stage - or can you say that you are capable at managing every aspect of a business? It would be unrealistic to assume that and not a very smart management strategy. The best managers delegate and outsource. Nobody mentioned 'stealing' labour. I'm sure her team gets adequately compensated.

[@veo16]

Cool story, but I think CNBC can do better on their next feature. We’re tired of hearing about the trust fund babies who went to Harvard, acquired venture capital, and cashed out with millions. Challenge yourself to find the millionaires that came from nothing. The ones who went to community college, or even dropped out. Find the winners that weren’t already on the easy road to nepotistic success.

[@cm-15]

None of these people were on an easy road to success. They’re just “easier” in comparison.

[@KNEWERAADVERTISING]

@@cm-15 Yes they were, why are "you people" soo delusional???? How detached from reality are you? She is a white attractive woman born in affluent Manhattan!!!!!! STOP insulting our intelligence, we are much smarter than you think, just dont have the resources/connections "you guys" generally do.

[@subhan6956]

she started with 15,000. Thats not a trustfund baby.

[@reecebrauer7289]

@@KNEWERAADVERTISING Welcome to the world where everyone is born into a different situation. Entrepreneurship is incredibly hard and having "connections" is only a small piece of the pie required to be successful. Her being attractive and born in Manhattan is no way indicative of future success. There are plenty of broke attractive people.

[@KNEWERAADVERTISING]

@@subhan6956 No she did not start the business with $15k. $15k is what she personally had "saved up" it is not all the money that went into starting up the business. Her parents invested, her friends invested. The omitted things on purpose, phrasing is key. Stop being gullible please.

[@YasinNabi]

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[@beyondthefuture2008]

Wow! This product is basically a reflective tv and she got 500mil for it? There’s really money out there to be made. Incredible

[@nyreggie]

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That's correct crypto is better rough for fast wealth growth

[@jamescameron2357]

I am very excited about the prospect of using cryptocurrency, not just as a money equivalent, but using it as a way to earn something as a result of doing some type of work.

[@marlenetraut8725]

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me. Real Estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values, and the least risk but you have to be patient

[@teresamorris8390]

Current real estate prices aren’t high because they have been driven up by irresponsible speculation. As was often the case in the past. Prices have risen because a constantly increasing population with money to invest has been created - and continues to be created.

[@cq3593]

What a story! So impressed on how she built a mirror like that without technical background or coding experience. She knew what to do and executed beautifully 👏 Also, I would rather own her mirror as a fitness product than a peloton bike/other products. Feels much more interactive and the design is pretty cool.

[@donaldjack5487]

We are already in the big crash , inflation is a catastrophe. This CPI report is a colossal failure. To bring the housing market to a halt,the FED will have to pull all the stops . The unfortunate issues is that the other market are being decimated. If you want to stay green ,you have to rely on a lot of diversification. Currently up 15% and being carful. Still a better deal than leaving it in a savings or checking account yielding 0-1 percent interest.

[@actuaryaltair6280]

Having to grow up in Manhattan and one if her memories was the “dinner parties” her parents were having I tend to believe she had a good start in life. Amazing what she accomplished but let’s not pretend she started from Compton

[@coelhocointech9841]

It takes smarts

[@michaeljames6847]

You make a valid point, however I say that her hard work and determination are far more contributing towards her success than the silver spoon she may have been raised with. Searching for and securing a cheap rental for the first studio, and doing the manual labour with her husband for the fitout, shows a level of work ethic and thriftiness rarely encountered by people who come from great wealth and self-given entitlement. Too often I've seen children of very wealthy people waste their opportunity to realise potential, because everything comes too easily.

[@gastonemoschin4337]

@A Estes You can succeed from chaos or in chaos. You must make decisions to live away from people who tie you down. Even it be your family.

[@susanhartmann5301]

Amen sister

[@shannonstewart4792]

@@michaeljames6847 Just so you know. They have lot of poor people and public housing in Manhattan. Don't let people fool you when they say they are from NYC lol. And they are poor from every race. They rent can be $600 a month and across the street is $6,000 a month. NYC is weird like that. People from Compton can be successful too but they gotta be selfish to do it and hella focused. Btw hope ya summer fun safe and covid free bruh. Be we'll💪

[@arnaudv9196]

More of this please. More highlighting of women’s accomplishments and success in business.

[@brianlogan341]

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[@arnaudv9196]

@A Estes she was smart and had a good education. Still barely anyone achieves such success in business in an equal position. Still very inspiring, not everyone needs to be from rags to riches.

[@news2hedz227]

Actually Bloomberg has a ton of these hot women who found multimillion-dollar companies videos. It's actually ridiculous and gross to be honest. They never interview any average women

[@Jesse-ii5md]

lol white women

[@ianbell4816]

I love stories about people who succeed for all the right reasons, Thanks for this,

[@khreljuliancruz8113]

SO INSPIRATIONAL 💖makes me want to have a start-up too, i have no clue yet but because of her I feel motivated haha💖💓

[@TheDanaYiShow]

Wow what an inspiration! Amazing lady and awesome video!

[@NierAutomata2B]

I wonder how she kickstarted the hardware, software and product dev. This video makes it look like a person with no background in technology can build a sophisticated tech product out of thin air. At least talk about how she did it.

[@SwopLux]

I’m a startup founder with no engineering background but know what process I want. I’m still trying to raise and get out of the blocks

[@NierAutomata2B]

@@abrasionthermals9172 instead of this unhelpful comment you could have shown the timestamp in the video to back you up. No it didn’t

[@Daniel-ru3dq]

*** sells

[@ITISKONY]

If you have money, you can pay software engineers to create anything for you.

[@shubhz7164]

@@SwopLux i would love to hear your story

[@missmegs37]

an inspiration to say the least. probably one of my favorite stories!

[@GR-sg2lv]

Great interview. What a great story behind the product and journey.

[@andreyb.1835]

She is A Super-Achiever! What a great person and business story!

[@ozzyfromspace]

A smart, hardworking, patient woman succeeding in the world is exactly what we need to see. Congratulations to her! People are a reminder that sometimes things work out, and it's worth the effort. Thanks CNBC, this was an awesome documentary 😊🙌🏽

[@Ross_Embossed]

A rich Ivy League girl from Harvard... hmmm🙄 Lots of practical skills like saving her allowance up to build a fitness studio. Hard work yea, but all the opportunities fell in her lap. No pitches, no seemingly endless failure to overcome. Confidence is a helpful foundation from a financially secure upbringing

[@anolalobo5574]

@@Ross_Embossed what's a male version of Karen called ? Any idea?

[@beatricerights]

@@Ross_Embossed her husband also sold his business for 200 million right before she started hers. I'm taking away from her but, her previlege helped her a great deal.

[@ihaziqhabib]

So inspirational! Literally so inspirational...

[@chenoweezi]

Thanks for this feature - great content!

[@ecomtomcat]

Wow I never heard of the Mirror before and I have to say, Great concept, great product, great story. She has invented the iPhone of Fitness !!!!!! Amazing! This is what I thought in the early 2000's the internet could be like with a full interactive video classroom environment!

[@nonchablunt]

this mirror idea doesn't convince me - but i have my own projector screen at home. what Putnam realized, is that this pricey mirror would work for a lot of people who have just a tablet and phone. quite brilliant really because she had to think outside the box! very well done! my only regret is not having invested in her company ;)

[@healthywildfree]

Beautiful story. Thanks for sharing!

[@svraj6073]

Very inspiring......hearty congratulations on her success 👏👏👏

[@netayconnection6236]

Loving her stories, such an inspiration. Gyals powers!!!

[@jemmabarlas8176]

Good laaawwd this is inspirational!

[@alexantoniou530]

awesome story , thank you for sharing !!! Congrats to the entrepreneur :)

[@zipporahkagehakarani2545]

Watched your story on building a start up. Inspiring message and information on what determination and focus is all about. Thanks Brynn

[@richballinlife]

That’s amazing!! She’s an inspiration that more people need to know about

[@miriamstrauss]

Totally!!

[@oliver-church]

This really inspired me. All this time I felt like my industry has been undervaluing my talents, so all I need to do is wrap my talents up into a really awesome service that is so good that it replaces the same companies that are turning down my job applications :)

[@humansofnairobi7045]

inbox me your idea

[@gabrieldemelo5363]

Incredible story, well done!!

[@brake1adam]

This is impressive!!! Congratulations to her!!!

[@benj9372]

It's not explained here how she got $3m in seed funding. It's glossed over as if it's like taking out a credit card for $5k. It's quite an important detail to skim over, unless of course, you are trying to hide the fact that she got it because of her family connections, which would call into question how much of this was actually her success

[@brianlogan341]

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[@joshuahuang07]

so u're downplaying the fact that she made a 500 million dollar product from $3 million in funds? whatever helps u sleep at night

[@benj9372]

@@joshuahuang07I believe they said $3m in round 1 financing.... Lots of details appear to be missing from the video

[@nile7999]

@@benj9372 Yeah she got 3 million in financing and all she had was a video of her product? lmao

[@JudeMarchisio]

@@nile7999 Actually that's a really good point. 3m dollars in seed funding with no proof of concept is genuinely baffling!!

[@spotlessmind7681]

the pandemic was the momentum for mir, when everyone is homebound. but it will appeal later to an audience that just want to work out and skip the social aspect of the gym. the other selling point of course is the mass market that it brings to trainers ... can't wait to see my trainer on there!

[@activeevolution300]

MIRROR is such a great piece of art/decor & fitness innovation. Much respect!

[@MrDorf007]

I love stories like hers....well done !

[@iheartsinging123]

Wow this is such an incredible story, I'm sure she'll go on to inspire many more - myself included!

[@brianlogan341]

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[@Ja-uu9ep]

She's just so cool to me. She had an innovative idea and she ran with it

[@naturallybeautiful9109]

It easy to build when you have family to support you (money) and wealthy ppl as help with Network that reliable in Manhattan. Not inspiring instead it proves what generational wealth does for you Bc it allows you to dream and build on that.

[@jpopstar777]

This is so inspiring - what an impressive hustle game

[@vecter]

$125M+ in revenue and sold for $500M? Sounds like this could've been worth billions if she kept going at it. That's only a 4x revenue multiplier on a growing company.

[@markayb6254]

Return is a more important indicator. The multiplier is usually put on returns

[@user-gn8wr3dn1k]

The company *could* be worth billions. It *could* also end up failing. Some people have different motivations. Some want an exit that affords them the opportunity to enjoy the rest of life. Others enjoy the early stage startup life and use these exits as prestige builders for their next companies (aka serial entrepreneurs). Some want to see their product infiltrate the market so in depth that they don't care about selling; they just want the world to enjoy what they've created. The list goes on. There's so many variables that go into deciding these things other than just $

[@trevorwebb448]

@@user-gn8wr3dn1k She had to sell out before other companies sue her. It's just a TV with a reflective surface. I'm pretty sure there are a bunch of companies in line to set her up for litigation.

[@catllionare]

Better sell for a small piece of a pie than later have a whole pie of nothing. (This could be a fad product)

[@tarun9542]

Are you applying your website flipping calculations to a hardware startup? 😂

[@berakahemmanuel6672]

I loved your closing statement. This was very inspiring…

[@rae6140]

I really enjoyed this content and I am interested in seeing more videos like this one.

[@yaserchow]

What a great story and an inspiration for anyone who wants to build out a tech company with no technical skills.

[@Mr.Anugraha]

Mirror Mirro on the wall... who the? Amazing story!

[@ToddBaldwin]

Great job Brynn! You're crushing it!

[@louisptack6987]

This woman is clearly brilliant, just so impressed by this.

[@henrikraymond5235]

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[@aaranbenton9810]

Do you do your own trading? I'm interested in trading forex and would appreciate some ideas or advise based on your experience!

[@kelvinwood492]

God bless you for making this video.

[@henrikraymond5235]

Aaran I don't trade forex on my own since I don't have the time or experience , so I simply invest while my contract trader, Thomas Stuart Mark, manages my account and generates monthly income.

[@melindajonathan8535]

wow that lot of Money lucky you ,wish i can produce start ups too

[@paulmason2442]

what does Thomas really deal on ?

[@TheZoeBig]

Inspiring! The fact that she thought scaling even when her studio was successful shows great industry.

[@brianlogan341]

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[@Alorio-Gori]

wow, congrats to her. she is really amazing

[@kentmemories]

The lady is total package. Good education, nice looking, polite speaking and insanely smart.

[@nicolasd2079]

"Brynn Leigh Jinnett, a daughter of Doreen Ziff Jinnett and Robert Jefferson Jinnett of San Francisco, and Warren Lowell Putnam, the son of Karen Hunzicker Putnam of Boston and George Putnam III of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., were married Saturday at the home of the groom’s father. The Rev. John H. Finley IV, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony. The couple met at Harvard, from which they graduated. Mrs. Putnam, 29, is the founder of Refine Method, a fitness business with two studios in New York. Until 2008, she was a professional ballet dancer and last performed with the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. The bride’s father works in San Francisco for the sales division of Microsoft. Mr. Putnam, 30, is known as Lowell. He is a founder of Quovo, a business in New York that provides financial analysis and advice for investors, advisers and portfolio managers. The groom’s mother is the vice president for external relations at B612 Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Mountain View, Calif., that finds and tracks asteroids that may be on course for Earth. His father is the founder and the president of New Generation Advisors, an investment firm with offices in Boston and Manchester, Mass. The groom is the stepson of Kathy Zillweger Putnam. The groom is a great-grandson of the late George Putnam, who founded Putnam Funds, the mutual fund company." Just another story of the rich getting richer.

[@carospinks]

I love a success story, so congrats to Brynn. Sad though that she felt, despite her obvious success, the need to completely transform her face. She looked so nice and natural before.

[@thatchangedmylife7764]

Wow, that's absolutely amazing.

[@masoomahassan6303]

Just wow! So inspiring and motivating!

[@lions000]

What an amazing woman. Feel like her mind would of made her successful no matter what she put her mind to

[@JennyRzezniczak]

That's my definition of a Badass WOMAN! Incredibly inspirational story.

[@prashant2840]

Really??

[@kurtcampher4716]

Love how she just went from one solution to the next. Very cool

[@JohnDoe-cf8jz]

Very cool interview, she definitely has a lot of smarts and determination.

[@Athandatu]

I loved her creativity and fortitude to pursue her creation and idea. This is not the type of video Graham Stephan reacts to as it isn’t at all about personal finance nor real estate, but I’d like to know what he thinks of it.