Look Before You Leap
Inc.|April 2023
I Was Wrong
Look Before You Leap

In 2016, two years after launching her bedding company, Parachute, founder and CEO Ariel Kaye started burning through cash. The direct-to-consumer linen shop had just raised a $4.6 million Series A, and Kaye was getting pressure from investors to spend a good chunk of that on finding new customers.

"Our marketing budget was next to nothing, and then suddenly we brought in this capital," recalls Kaye, 38. "We were told: 'Go, go, go." So she and her team of 15 allocated $1 million for marketing and began brainstorming ways to get as many eyes as possible on the brand.

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