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Dave Gilboa

Co-CEO

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Dave Gilboa is the co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker. Prior to Warby Parker, Dave worked at merchant bank Allen & Company and Bain & Company. Dave has worked extensively with nonprofits, and serves as a founding member of the Entrepreneur Board of Venture for America, an organization dedicated to mobilizing graduates as entrepreneurs in low-cost cities. Dave is a Henry Crown Fellow via the Aspen Institute, class of 2014. Along with Neil, he received the 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and was recognized as part of “The Next Establishment” by Vanity Fair. Born in Sweden and raised in San Diego, Dave graduated with a BS in Bioengineering with Honors from UC Berkeley and holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

“We really believe that the best experience for our consumers is to give them choice in how they engage with us. The way that we got here was continually getting feedback from customers, testing, learning before investing, and scaling.”

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