Katrina Lake founded Stitch Fix in 2011 while a Harvard Business School student, pioneering the data-driven personal styling subscription model — blending human stylists with machine learning algorithms to select and ship personalized clothing boxes. Born in San Francisco in 1982, Lake became the youngest woman ever to take a company public when Stitch Fix listed on NASDAQ in 2017 at age 34. Her company combined the emotional intelligence of personal styling with the scale of algorithmic recommendation, creating a new category of retail that neither pure-play e-commerce nor traditional retail had attempted. Stitch Fix generated over $2 billion in revenue at its peak.
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