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They Went from Selling Scrubs From Their Trunk to a Wall St IPO
They Went from Selling Scrubs From Their Trunk to a Wall St IPO
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"I think many people... don't understand how many healthcare professionals there are, but this is a $12 billion industry in the United States."
The trendy medical scrub-maker FIGS made history on multiple fronts when it made its Wall Street debut last month. Co-founders Trina Spear and Heather Hasson sat down with dot.LA to talk about how they went from selling their scrub sets out of their car in front of hospitals during shift changes to going public last month.
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