#237 - Allegra Shaw & Shirin Soltani - Uncle Studios: Building A Creator Led Brand 101
Episode Summary
Allegra Shaw is a fashion and lifestyle creator, who launched her YouTube channel in 2011 and grown to nearly 1M subscribers. In 2017, she launched Uncle Studios with co-founder Shirin Soltani. The brand is known for their high quality and clean fabrics, community, and focus on collections built around modern lifestyle.
Episode Notes
On this episode of DTC Pod, Allegra and Shirin join Blaine & Ramon to talk about building one of the first creator led brands, before the recent wave of influencer led brands started to take over. They talk about getting started as a creator, building a community, starting in apparel from the ground up, working together as co-founders, identifying a market gap, tips for sourcing products, optimizing ops, building a brand greater than the individual creator, creative strategy, aesthetic development, and much more.
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Allegra Shaw - Creator & CoFounder of Uncle Studios
Shirin Soltani - CoFounder of Uncle Studios
Ramon Berrios - CEO of Trend.io
Blaine Bolus - Co-Founder of Seated
Episode Transcript & Castmagic Chat
Ramon has Co-Founded Trend. It is a curated marketplace of creators and brands. We help brands source high quality custom content. We love working with new, innovative companies that are changing the game.
Blaine Bolus is the Co-Founder of OmniPanel, the first software platform connecting CX & Internal teams.OmniPanel, backed by top Silicon Valley VCs, is building software infrastructure that powers cross-functional work, in an industry projected to be a $641 Billion Market in 2022.
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