{"id":29229,"date":"2017-12-05T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/creator\/?p=29229"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:28:44","slug":"oui-shave-karen-young-finds-sisterhood-female-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/oui-shave-karen-young-finds-sisterhood-female-founders","title":{"rendered":"With Oui Shave, Karen Young finds a sisterhood of female founders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next time you see someone in the subway lugging a bulky blue Ikea bag, they might be building their own beauty empire. That\u2019s how it was for Karen Young in the early days of her company, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouishave.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oui Shave<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI spent many days trucking my Ikea bag full of orders on the train and getting a lot of nasty stares,\u201d Young recalls.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was back in early 2016, when she was working full-time at her day job and pursuing her passion project: a line of shaving products designed to disrupt the status quo in razors marketed to women. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re reimagining what the razor would look like if it was made with the best intentions for women,\u201d Young says. Manufacturers didn\u2019t understand why someone would make a new<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kind of razor when so many were on the market already. To Young, the reason was simple: she wanted a product that wouldn\u2019t cause razor burn, ingrown hairs, or other unsightly shaving by-products. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Oui!<\/em><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe experience many women had with shaving was that it was impacting their confidence,\u201d Young said. \u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing to show up with razor burn.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She eventually found an interested manufacturer, in a small German town that has specialized in razors for many generations. She worked with them to produce a glamorous take on the safety razor. And yes, she made it gold. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Oui!<\/em><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once she had a product, Young started to hustle, emailing hundreds of editors each night after work. One morning, she awoke to find a reply from Refinery29. After <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/safety-razor-product-review\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a glowing write-up<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a few weeks later, the Oui Shave orders started to pile in, just in time for the holidays. Cue the Ikea bag.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, Oui Shave\u2019s momentum hasn\u2019t waned. Young quit her job, hired two employees, and snagged a $180,000 prize at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/creator-awards\/lets-hear-new-york-hometown-heroes-win-creator-awards\/?utm_source=wework&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=creator\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NYC Creator Awards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Young, who bootstrapped her company from $1,500 to profitable, plans to pour the new influx of cash into improving the Oui Shave site. Like many other buzzy new products, Oui Shave is direct-to-consumer, so her site is critical to how she tells her brand\u2019s story to customers. So far, the beautiful imagery and luxe packaging&nbsp;have resonated with consumers. Well, that \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the fact that we\u2019re tired of using products that have been handed to us, and often made by men,\u201d Young says.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2  id=\"finding-a-new-generation\"class=\"wp-block-heading\">Finding a new generation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/oui-shave-razor-detail-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Oui Shave's new Rose Gold razor\" class=\"wp-image-29235\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young first saw a safety razor in action as a little girl growing up in Guyana, South America.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was raised unconventionally by my grandmother and my three uncles,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was three men, a grandma, and a little lady.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many mornings, she had watched her uncles shaving with safety razors. With this image in the back of her mind, she first thought her customers would be women 35 to 45 who had seen their grandmothers or other older relatives using a similar product. Instead, her customers turned out to be mostly millennials, who saw the product as something new, something that hadn\u2019t been done before. \u201cThey\u2019re coming up in a time when there\u2019s more products targeted to them,\u201d Young says.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2  id=\"sisterhood-of-founders\"class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Sisterhood of founders<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Products serving these millennial women have popped up in recent years, including brands such as Lola, tampons made without synthetics, and Thinx, underwear that absorbs menstrual blood. Young says she feels a kinship with these women-centric, women-founded brands.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRight now there\u2019s a movement happening around women,\u201d Young says. \u201cThere\u2019s a less rigid conversation happening around female products and the female body.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>There\u2019s a less rigid conversation happening around female products and the female body.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based in Brooklyn, Young has found a sisterhood with other female entrepreneurs, including Lauren Schulte, founder of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/flexfits.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flex Company<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karen has deep expertise in new product development, and has been able to give us advice on that part of our business,\u201d Schulte says.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have experience raising a seed round of funding and have been able to help her think through her fundraising strategy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2  id=\"funding-roadblocks\"class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Funding roadblocks<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Young has received valuable advice and made her own way by bootstrapping and enlisting her friends and fianc\u00e9 to help mail hundreds of orders (with free pizza as payment), she says she\u2019s felt frustrated by the lack of funding options. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are a lot of roadblocks there,\u201d she says. \u201cWe are considering going the venture capital route. To do that, we have to prove we\u2019re a billion-dollar exit. That\u2019s fine, and we can do that, but what\u2019s worrisome about raising venture capital is that it\u2019s not terribly friendly to female founders and black female founders. Many times women are creating products for an audience they know intimately. But quite often if you\u2019re talking to male investors, that\u2019s not something they really understand immediately.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women are creating products for an audience they know intimately. But quite often if you\u2019re talking to male investors, it\u2019s not something they understand immediately.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her journey as a founder, Young has seen her idea go from Guyana to Brooklyn, then Brooklyn to Germany. 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