Benjamin Clymer
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Benjamin Clymer reads as The Visionary because he did not enter an existing market so much as construct one. Hodinkee democratised horological knowledge before a mainstream audience existed for it, then invented the watch industry's first authorised online retail model, and later extended into insurance, a novel category for the asset class entirely. His leadership is architectural at the category level, each move fusing content, commerce, and community into unclaimed territory.
“I said, that just doesn't feel democratic at all. I love this stuff in such a sincere way. I want to basically share what I'm learning to as many people as possible.”
“We were the first online only authorized retailer of watches. We were really the trailblazer, launched with eight brands as authorized retail partners and now we're up to about forty brands.”
“The ambition is to become really the global leader of watches content and commerce. We are a retailer, we are a media platform, we're a community platform, we host events, we're an insurance product.”
Masters in Business: “Benjamin Clymer and Jeffery Fowler on Hodinkee”
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