Julie Wainwright

Julie Wainwright is the founder/Former CEO  of The RealReal. She is also the author of Time To Get Real, How I built a Billion Dollar Business that Rocked the Fashion Industry.   She founded The RealReal  in June 2011, bringing luxury consignment online and completely disrupting the fashion industry.  She also brought the concept of the circular economy into the fashion sector while heightening the role of resale in sustainability.  When Julie took The RealReal public in 2019, she became the 23rd woman in history to found and lead a company to an IPO.  

She has received several prestigious industry awards and accolades from Entrepreneur Magazine, Fast Company, CNBC, Inc. Magazine, Business of Fashion, and more. She was recently selected by Forbes for their inaugural 50 Successful Women Over 50 list and was celebrated on the cover of Forbes Magazine in June 2021.  She was awarded the Silicon Valley Forum's Visionary Award in 2019 whose past winners include Bill Gate, Reid Hoffman, Reed Hastings and Marc Andreesen. 

She is also the cofounder of the podcast,  The Armchair Entrepreneurs,  where each week, bold entrepreneurs take the mic to pitch their products, innovations, and business dreams to three powerhouse hosts, Julie Wainwright, Julie Gilhart and Tanya Rhone—industry veterans who’ve built, scaled, and shaped some of the biggest brands in the world.