On Inside Blackstone, host Christine Anderson sits down with The RealReal CEO Rati Sahi Levesque on why most young shoppers now check the resale price before they buy anything new, how robots and AI authentication changed the economics of selling one-of-a-kind items, what agentic shopping means for e-commerce, and what her data says about the health of today’s consumer. From Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager.

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The RealReal CEO Rati Sahi Levesque: Resale, Robots, and the New Luxury Consumer

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The RealReal CEO Rati Sahi Levesque: Resale, Robots, and the New Luxury Consumer