How AptDeco Co-Founder Reham Fagir Built Her Business

On this episode of Guiding Her Empire, Reham Fagiri talks about why she left Goldman Sachs to turn into the CEO and co-founder of AptDeco.

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Fagiri explained she was impressed by her family. At a extremely younger age, she required to create anything for herself.

“My total family members, basically, are business people — no matter if females or guys. A large amount of my aunts have their have corporations, from architecture companies to… college professors,” she explained.

The idea for AptDeco came out of an practical experience Fagiri experienced transferring from Philadelphia, where by she attended small business college at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton University, to New York. She turned to Craigslist to sell off her furnishings, and observed herself possessing to negotiate every single facet of a transaction and offer with no-exhibits. 1 specifically undesirable incident stuck with her.

“I believe a turning position was when I had this gentleman appear into my condominium, arrived to invest in my Tv set, and he permit me know that the Television set I stated was basically the improper model. And he received actually upset,” said Fagiri. “It was just an truthful slip-up. But, you know, he primarily instructed me that he is just gonna acquire it and he’s gonna pay out what he feels is good.”

Fagiri lived by herself at the time, and felt she didn’t have any possibilities. When she told her classmates the story, lots of claimed they’d dealt with related troubles when providing to strangers.

“I needed to do a thing about it, so that it never transpires again to everyone,” she reported. “And that is [what] definitely helped me and impressed me to start out AptDeco. I desired to build a answer, not just for me, but for every single actually each individual woman out there.”

In the rest of the episode, Fagiri talks about increasing up in a spouse and children of entrepreneurs and gives information on connecting with your buyers and elevating money in hard instances.

dot.LA Viewers Engagement Intern Joshua Letona contributed to this put up.