![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/we-turned-my-side-hustle-into-a-multi-million-dollar-success-its-in-my-blood/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/newspress-collage-20252691-1666957672301.jpg&description=A COUPLE has turned a side hustle into a multi-million dollar business against all the odds - now they're lapping up their success. Diamonds experts Olivia Landau and her husband Kyle Simon have an impressive office in the centre of New York where they run their modern jewellery business out of. Olivia Landau is a fourth-generation diamonds expertCredit: Courtesy of The Clear Cut Kyle Simon, Olivia's husband, saw a 'gap' in the diamonds marketsCredit: Courtesy of The Clear Cut Their company - The Clear Cut - is an online jewellery business which is simplifying the diamond-buying process and educating customers along the way. Olivia - a fourth-generation diamond expert - and Kyle met during a Geological course and quickly fell in love and married. While they were dating, Olivia set up a jewellery blog that helped people understand how diamonds are processed. The blog was an instant success and so she and Kyle piled their time into developing it into a full-time business. Olivia's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were diamond cutters or dealers so it's no surprise that she would continue the family trade - even when her parents discouraged her and warned the industry was in decline. "I fell in love with diamonds and gemstones and I guess it was in my blood all along," Olivia said. After her graduation, Olivia started to work for Tiffany & Co.'s flagship store on the engagement floor which is where she "really fell in love with engagement rings and diamonds specificially". She told entrepreneur.com: "But I wanted to be a little bit more hands-on, so I left Tiffany to work at a large diamond wholesaler here on 47th Street." Kyle, who had also finished a degree at Columbia Business School, saw an opening in the market. When all his friends started getting married, they'd turn to him for guidance knowing he had a connection to the diamond industry thanks to time he spend in Sierra Leone developing a fair-trade diamond-mining company. "So they'd be like, 'Hey, kno){kind=link}
A COUPLE has turned a side hustle into a multi-million dollar business against all the odds – now they’re lapping up their success.
Diamonds experts Olivia Landau and her husband Kyle Simon have an impressive office in the centre of New York where they run their modern jewellery business out of.
Their company – The Clear Cut – is an online jewellery business which is simplifying the diamond-buying process and educating customers along the way.
Olivia – a fourth-generation diamond expert – and Kyle met during a Geological course and quickly fell in love and married.
While they were dating, Olivia set up a jewellery blog that helped people understand how diamonds are processed.