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Prose CEO Arnaud Plas on growing a company with profitability in mind
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Every brand talks about paths to profitability, but few actually reach it.
Customizable beauty brand Prose is one company that has bucked the trend and reached meaningful profitability. The company has made nearly $500 million since launching in 2018 and estimates it will bring in $160 million this year. What's more, this year the company is on track to be profitable, after hitting profitability last May as well for the entire third quarter of 2023.
At the Modern Retail Commerce Summit, held last week in New Orleans, Prose co-founder and CEO Arnaud Plas spoke about how he's been leading the company to reach these major milestones. "That has been a journey," Plas said.
Prose hasn't sacrificed growth in order to hit its profitability targets. For example, the company has expanded into new areas. "A major step with a spirit of reaching profitability [was] we launched skin care in 2023," Plas said.
While expanding into new categories is expensive, the thesis behind Prose was to build a vertically integrated and automated production system and then add more products to grow revenue. "The key was really: How do we automate production and customization?" Plas said.
By building out its own New York-based manufacturing, and figuring out how to automate parts of it, Prose was able to lower its production cost over the years while also charging a premium for offering customized products. It took many years, but Plas believed that if the brand could streamline its production enough while launching into new areas, the financials would work out.
"If we were able to execute this, there would be a pretty high and significant value creation for the company," he said.
But brands can't go all in on growth at once. And perhaps that's the biggest lesson from Prose's evolution so far. "The reality is that when you want to be profitable, you have to sequence your efforts," said Plas.
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Manage episode 414481432 series 3406044
Every brand talks about paths to profitability, but few actually reach it.
Customizable beauty brand Prose is one company that has bucked the trend and reached meaningful profitability. The company has made nearly $500 million since launching in 2018 and estimates it will bring in $160 million this year. What's more, this year the company is on track to be profitable, after hitting profitability last May as well for the entire third quarter of 2023.
At the Modern Retail Commerce Summit, held last week in New Orleans, Prose co-founder and CEO Arnaud Plas spoke about how he's been leading the company to reach these major milestones. "That has been a journey," Plas said.
Prose hasn't sacrificed growth in order to hit its profitability targets. For example, the company has expanded into new areas. "A major step with a spirit of reaching profitability [was] we launched skin care in 2023," Plas said.
While expanding into new categories is expensive, the thesis behind Prose was to build a vertically integrated and automated production system and then add more products to grow revenue. "The key was really: How do we automate production and customization?" Plas said.
By building out its own New York-based manufacturing, and figuring out how to automate parts of it, Prose was able to lower its production cost over the years while also charging a premium for offering customized products. It took many years, but Plas believed that if the brand could streamline its production enough while launching into new areas, the financials would work out.
"If we were able to execute this, there would be a pretty high and significant value creation for the company," he said.
But brands can't go all in on growth at once. And perhaps that's the biggest lesson from Prose's evolution so far. "The reality is that when you want to be profitable, you have to sequence your efforts," said Plas.
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