In this episode, we welcomed Jade Huang, founder and CEO of StyleSage, an AI data analytics company that helps fashion brands like Lululemon and Under Armour make data-driven decisions. Jade discusses challenges she overcame as a first-time founder and shares her insights into how the fashion industry will evolve. Born and raised in Taiwan and Minnesota, Jade studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design before dropping out. Determined to make it in New York, Jade found her way into web design, software development, and product management. After attending business school and learning about how the iconic fashion brand Zara used on-the-ground scouts to determine trends in designs, Jade became passionate about how this process could be automated using the vast amounts of images on social media. Her idea of using data analytics to help fashion brands better understand their market grew into StyleSage.
