00:01In 2005, four friends founded a company called Refinery29 with a mission to help people discover and refine their personal
00:07style.
00:09Starting with just a $5,000 investment and based out of a 750 square foot apartment, we published only one
00:15story a week.
00:17Seven years later, we've grown to nearly 100 employees and published more than 1,100 stories a month.
00:23It's like 22 issues of the average fashion magazine.
00:26And as time went on, we grew and grew.
00:32And we've been named one of the fastest growing media companies in the United States.
00:37Just last year, the site received 700 million page views with over 60 million visitors.
00:43That's close to the population of Italy, with people around the world spending 3.6 million hours on the site.
00:50That's 150,000 days for 411 years.
00:54What were people reading?
00:56Stories ranging from fashion to beauty to lifestyle.
01:02All with our signature Refinery29 link.
01:07Some stories had a life of their own and spread like wildfire.
01:13Our content is global and local, with outputs spreading around the world.
01:19We continue to make Refinery29 the number one destination for those who want to look and feel amazing, and stand
01:25out from the crowd.
01:26て reach the front people here.
01:30you
01:30.
01:31about the world.
