Entrepreneur Emma Grede attributed her ability to keep brands relevant to her complete assuredness in her intuition, which was honed in the expanses of her triumphs\u2014and failures.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t second-guess myself,\u201d she said at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara on Tuesday. \u201cI think a lot of us have that skill, but we talk ourselves out of it, and we second-guess ourselves a lot. One of the most expensive habits that we have as women is waiting until we\u2019re ready.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grede told Most Powerful Women editorial director Ellie Austin that she has fine-tuned the ability to try something out and has failed so many times that \u201cit stopped mattering\u201d and doesn\u2019t hold her back. The 44-year-old entrepreneur, who was raised by a single mother in East London and never went to college, is the cofounder and chief product officer of $5 billion shapewear company Skims, as well as an investor and fashion designer, most recently founding Off Season, a luxury sports-fashion brand, alongside designer Kristin Juszczyk.<\/p>\n
Grede\u2019s intuition is what led Skims to release a series of unexpected products, including a push-up bra with a raised nipple detail. Initially seen as provocative, the bra actually serves the purpose of affirming women who have gotten breast reconstruction surgery after a mastectomy, Grede said. While some products like black thongs are meant to meet a demand for the many women who don\u2019t possess one, others, like a face sculpt wrap, are meant to create, occupy, and own a new market.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of my special sauces is to go in and say, \u2018Well, how do you take a problem that exists within this and make it make sense for a new generation of customers?\u2019\u201d Grede said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo much of what I do is not brain surgery,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s about making things 1% better. It\u2019s about taking existing markets, but really paying attention and really being focused on the excellence of products.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grede has worked to share her insights with other women, including in her book Start With Yourself: A New Vision for Work & Life<\/em>, warning that too much advice to other women is feel-good, rather than practical and effective.<\/p>\n\u201cWhat I\u2019m not doing is trying to make people feel comfortable,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m talking about the reality of what I do, and so I actually think that so much of what\u2019s out there, specifically in women\u2019s media, is to make women feel better.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019m interested in that because I\u2019m a results-oriented person. I\u2019m an operator, and so I talk about the truth and the quality it is to operate in my life. I\u2019ve never been shy about saying this is what I had to do. These are the sacrifices that I had to make. These are the tradeoffs in my life. These are the things that I don\u2019t do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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