Everlane

In the fall of 2010, a then 25-year-old Michael Preysman left his job in venture capital to start his own business. He never expected to work in fashion, but a passion for great design and frustration with the lack of innovation in the retail space, led him to build Everlane. He hasn’t looked back. While the team skews young, our employees have cut their teeth at places like Google, Yelp, Gilt Groupe, American Apparel, Marc Jacobs, J.Crew, Goldman Sachs, Pentagram, and The Gap. It’s a motley group held together by a shared passion for pushing boundaries and challenging conventions. We work in an airy new office in San Francisco's Mission District. Since our biggest customer base is in New York City, we have a small team on the ground there, as well. It's challenging at times, but we visit each other often. We spend months finding the best factories around the world—the very same ones that produce your favorite designer labels. We visit them often, and build strong personal relationships with the owners. This hands-on approach is the most effective way to ensure a factory's integrity. As an added assurance we also require stringent workplace compliancy paperwork.