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Interviewing Kiersten Cusick- A young entrepreneur with two brands listed in Shopify’s top ten stores:
Kiersten Cusick
We are all delighted and privileged to share with you our short yet exciting chit-chat with today’s young inspiration in the entrepreneurship world. We had a great time knowing the wonderful experience directly from Kiersten. Let us share it with you too:
“Hi Kiersten, people are finding you as a young yet great inspiration when it comes to entrepreneurship. Tell people a bit about yourself too”.
“Well, I am 23, born and raised in New York City. I went to a private school for my whole life and then to college for one year to learn business where I got dropped out and handled my family business. I belong to a wealthy real estate developers’ family. I moved to Florida when I was twenty-one one years old. I also love animals and like to eat clean food, my favorite food is sushi yet I keep trying new things out of my love for food. Also, I love working out in the gym almost five hours weekly. My whole life I played basketball and baseball.
“So you started working at such a young age. How did that happen?”
Well, as I told you my family is a wealthy real estate developer so I happened to get my license at the age of 18 years only. I started making deals and eventually moved to Florida. There I partnered up with a billionaire developer and worked with him.
“Is that where you established your brands?”
Ah no actually. I worked with him running the job sites for two years until the COVID started. Then I came back to New York with my family. That is when it all happened. I started building two e-commerce websites.
“So how long it took you to launch the company? Share some of that experience with our youngsters”
It almost took us two years of building to launch the company and designing our first pieces. The launch date was 9th July which is more special for being my birthday and also my lucky number.
“Kiersten you’ve been in hot waters for being listed in Shopify’s top ten online stores. First, tell us something about your two brands.”
I built two e-commerce websites one of them being www.whavyco.com. It is all about swimwear for men and women and accessories for the beach and the second one is www.Grillo.store. Whavyco.com is supported by Grace Boor, my girlfriend. She has exceptional knowledge of business and has also worked with many swimsuit brands in Los Angeles. Grillo watches is a luxury timepiece and watch company. Grillo watches were what I designed with my Italian grandfather Anthony Grillo. At Grillo watches, my grandfather has collected hundreds of valuable timepieces as he had some exceptional love for timepieces. We both worked hard on the company and it turned out to be worth it. We have always taken our companies as more than just being a business. We keep including surprises to our exclusive packages that are shipped worldwide and are affordable brands overall.
“You instantly reached in top ten on whole Shopify’s platform. Where else did it lead you to other than social fame?”
“Well yeah. In the very first week of launching our companies, we were soon in the top 10 on Shopify’s stores, followed by an exponential growth on my as well as my girlfriend @graceboor’s social websites. Our launches spread over two hundred countries globally. It led to a fast followers’ growth on my Instagram resulting in two hundred thousand followers and grace who is a bikini model ended up with more than one million followers on Instagram and one million followers on TikTok. We then strategically used our links for getting us to the foremost platform that was possible. We also witnessed many social media stars wearing our products globally which was all magical. Today we travel across the world and spread our work.”
“Bravo. So how many bases do you currently have?”
Our bases are in multiple states like New York City, Miami, and Los Angeles California.
“We have heard you love charity work. Is that so?”
We love to do charity and give back to our community. We love taking care of people who need us. We thus donate money and other essentials to those in need and also to homeless and hungry ones. Other than that, we donate other essential products and clothes among people as a give back to the community. This is because my dream throughout life was to build the brand and community for people where they would come together and enjoy a better life and quality time. This is just the execution of that.
“Great Kiersten, what message do you want to give to the young generation?”
Just focus on bringing smiles to faces. Help the people in need and enjoy a great life, my dear friends.
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Sebastian was born and raised in the busy city of Abbottabad. As a journalist, Saad Mushtaq has contributed to many online publications including the PAK Today and the Huffing Post. In regards to academics, Saad Mushtaq earned a degree in business from the Abbottabad UST, Havelian. Saad Mushtaq follows the money and covers all aspects of emerging tech here at The Hear Up.Thanks