Katrina Lake (born December 24, 1982)[1] is an American businesswoman who is the Founder and interim CEO of Stitch Fix, a fashion-based subscription service.
Her mother is a Japanese immigrant who taught in the public school system and her father was a doctor at UCSF and the University of Minnesota.
[14] Lake worked at Polyvore and management consultancy The Parthenon Group after graduating from Stanford.
At its early stages, Lake did not even have the Internet capabilities to charge her customers and required trust from her clients to pay her monthly.
[15] In 2012, Lake was introduced to Netflix VP of data science and engineering Eric Colson, who initially dismissed the business model as "whimsical" but within months joined the company as "chief algorithms officer".
[27] Lori Greiner of HSN and Lake teamed up to make a deal with a young budding company for children's glasses, Pair Eyewear.