"Retailing icon Mickey Drexler is joining the board of Warby Parker, a
move that adds gravitas to the three-year-old online eyewear maker as
it expands into brick-and-mortar stores," reports
Fortune magazine. "Drexler's directorship solidifies the informal relationship he had
already developed with the company's co-CEOs, Neil Blumenthal and Dave
Gilboa. The J.Crew honcho has been having lunch regularly with
Blumenthal and Gilboa and advised the two on scaling their business. He
invested in Warby Parker in what Blumenthal says was "a meaningful way"
earlier this year."
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