A Stanford Graduate With a Vision
Roy Raymond, a Stanford business graduate, came up with the idea when he tried to buy underwear for his wife and left feeling like he was going to be placed on some sort of “list.” So he thought to himself, okay, what if there was a store that men could feel comfortable in?
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A place where they could browse at their own leisure without having to flash their wedding bands. Raymond then borrowed $40,000 from a bank as well as $40,000 from his own family and founded Victoria’s Secret as a lingerie retailer in California. The very first Victoria’s Secret location was opened at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, which is now home to 20-something trillionaires…