Susan Lyne

Levo League Wants to Help You Find a Job — If You’re a Gen-Y Woman (Video)

Peter Kafka in Social on March 20 at 5:00 am PT

There are plenty of places on the Web to network, job-hunt and look for career advice. Caroline Ghosn and Amanda Pouchot explain why their new site is different.

Gilt Groupe Returns Its CEO: Kevin Ryan, Susan Lyne Swap Places

Peter Kafka in Media on September 27, 2010 at 9:42 am PT

Gilt Groupe, the earliest and best known of the U.S. “private sale” shopping sites, has a new boss: Founder Kevin Ryan, who previously served as the company’s chairman, is now running the company. Susan Lyne, brought in as CEO two years ago from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, has been moved into Ryan’s old chairman slot.

Gilt Groupe's Susan Lyne Talks About Fashion, Local and (Not) IPO!

Kara Swisher in News on August 26, 2010 at 2:03 pm PT

Yesterday, BoomTown dropped into the lower Park Avenue offices of the New York-based Gilt Groupe, the online fashion retail site, to talk to its CEO, Susan Lyne. Since 2007, the site has raised $83 million, giving it a $400 million valuation and spurring interest from investment bankers who think Gilt might be a good candidate for an initial public offering. That’s doubtful for now, given how important it is for Gilt to expand its business, even as competition increases.

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Trying to Make Online Shopping More Fun

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 26, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

The new breed of e-commerce sites is benefiting by making shopping more personal and more like a game, the CEO of high-end retailer Gilt Groupe said Wednesday. Susan Lyne, whose site offers designer brands to members at reduced prices, said that by offering a limited number of products for a small amount of time, Gilt has overcome one of the biggest difficulties for online retailers: getting people to move from putting an item in their cart to actually buying it.

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Retailer Gilt Sees iPad App Driving Fashion Sales

Rachel Dodes, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 16, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Executives at Gilt Groupe, the fashion retailer known for its online-only sales of high-end items, had expected to do well with their iPad app, but they were surprised by some of the results after the device was introduced. On April 4, a day after the device debuted, 2.4 percent of Gilt’s sales came from the iPad, a higher portion than expected, said Gilt founder and chairman Kevin Ryan and Chief Executive Susan Lyne in an interview.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's Wenda Harris Millard Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on July 1, 2008 at 9:05 am PT

When I was recently in New York, I enjoyed a delicious breakfast, with a side of video interview, with Wenda Harris Millard. She was recently named co-CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (aka the House Martha Built With Her Trusty Glue Gun). Millard went to MSLO after many years of building and running Yahoo’s ad business (previous to that stint, she worked at DoubleClick in its earliest days).