Danielle Vermeer
@daniellevermeer
Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport. Writer of Goodwill Hunting, a newsletter hunting the best pre-loved fashion finds, insights, and jobs. 11+ years of buying no new clothes.
Danielle Vermeer
Ambition is the drive to play games that others have created. Climb the corporate ladder. Play politics. Work long hours. Lean in—to corporate feminism.
Danielle Vermeer • Goodwill Hunting #10: cottagecore, girlboss culture, & the end of ambition
The luxury secondary market was estimated to be worth $32 billion in 2020, but only 5 to 7 percent of resalable inventory globally was actually resold that year, according to BoF Insights research.
Business of Fashion • Fashion Resale Is Facing an Inventory Crunch
Automated curation will not replace human curators. Despite Skyscanner’s powerful algorithms, Jack’s Flight Club has 1,500,000+ members and ~$800,000 in revenue.
Curation as a Service: No-Code Directories, Personal Brands, Digital Products
So choose a niche — and then commit to being the best at it.
Substack • How to carve a career path on your own terms
At surface level, Shein and Depop are polar opposites, but this is more about the what and the how of their business models. Diving deeper, we see that both Shein and Depop address a similar who and why. Both Shein and Depop meet the same underlying consumer needs for trendy, cheap fashion.
Danielle Vermeer • Goodwill Hunting #07: what Shein and Depop have in common
The product isuniquely focused ondriving one corebehavior within theapp that is central tothe vision laid out bythe founders. TheUI/UX for that singularfeature is effortless.