Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)

<p>It started with a massive pile of razors sitting in a Rancho Cucomonga warehouse, and Michael Dubin’s chance meeting of the man who wanted to get rid of them.</p><p>In 2010, Michael was working in marketing in Los Angeles, producing online video content. As a hobby, Michael took improv comedy classes.</p><p>At a holiday party, he met a man named Mark Levine. Mark was looking for ideas to sell razors he had imported, but didn’t know how to unload.</p><p>Michael’s background in video and comedy helped him create a viral launch video for his spontaneous idea: an internet razor subscription brand called Dollar Shave Club.</p><p>Five years after launching, Dollar Shave Club sold to consumer products behemoth Unilever for a reported $1 billion in cash.</p><p>This episode was recorded in front of a live audience in Los Angeles.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What you’ll learn:</strong></p><ul><li>How Michael’s early career at NBC in New York exposed him to a world of video production - and comed...