Nearly ecomm News Nick Kaplan on the Struggle Bus great grandson of Retail Legends #pod #ecommerce

12 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Vinny O Brien. This content was uploaded by Vinny O Brien. This is a YouTube video titled "Nearly ecomm News Nick Kaplan on the Struggle Bus great grandson of Retail Legends #pod #ecommerce" (posted 2025-11-12). The excerpt is a first-person spoken segment—likely from Nick Kaplan—recounting family retail and entrepreneurial roots (a grandmother who ran a dress business and an uncle who grew a business after business school), career choices between finance and retail, his grandmother's advice to join Saks Fifth Avenue, and his formative experience as department manager of women's coats. The content appears to be part of an interview or podcast-style discussion about retail/ecommerce background and career path.

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My other grandmother was a teacher, 4 kids, New York, and a high-rolling husband at the age of 48 that dropped dead and took over his dress business. And with my uncle, who just graduated from business school at like 21 years old, super smart, built it into something super— so I always had this kind of entrepreneurial spirit, and I'm like, what am I gonna do? And so it was kind of like, oh, sales and trading at Merrill Lynch or Saks Fifth Avenue training program, and My grandmother, who I was super close to, said, "You should go to Saks." So I did. So I spent my formative years getting lucky, being in the right place at the right time, working super hard. My favorite job to this day is still the department manager of women's coats, my first job at Saks.