Whip Salon: Working mom ‘whips’ together a salon chain by focusing on experience

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How do you make the salon of the future? By focusing on the favorite word of anybody who has studied millennials’ spending habits: experiences.

In 2016, Amy Pal — after working many, many corporate jobs — founded Whip Salon, which is a hybrid salon and blow dry bar. It offers blowout memberships alongside cuts and coloring. And plenty of client experiences.