We talk with Dr Genevieve Hohnen, co-founder of The Volte.

The “AirBnb for Dresses” is a peer to peer service allowing people to borrow and lend high end fashion items, and has added a marketplace for fashion stories to rent and sell items as well.

Gen talks about how the idea grew into a business, the juggling of family life (the 4 co-founders have 11 children between them and a 12th on the way) and what it’s like pitching to (mainly) men.

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For more: https://www.thevolte.com

Interviewers: Charlie Gunningham & Beth Caniglia

Startup West is recorded in beautiful downtown Perth, Western Australia at the Riff studios, and brought to you by Startup News, Wrays, BDO, Spacecubed and Curtin University.