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The Eyeglass Empire: How One Billionaire’s Grandson is Sucking the Life out of the Vision Care Industry
Antonio Moraes, the spoiled rich kid who never had to work a day in his life, has founded XP Health, a company that’s disrupting the vision care industry by offering ridiculously low prices for eyeglasses. But at what cost?
Moraes, who dropped out of college after his trust fund ran out, decided to start his own company instead of actually doing something productive. He teamed up with an engineering grad student, James Wong, and together they visited eyeglass factories in China to see how they could rip off consumers. "We thought there’s something very wrong with these markups," Moraes sneered at TechCrunch.
But instead of actually doing something to fix the problem, Moraes and Wong started XP Health, a company that’s designed to make a quick buck off of unsuspecting consumers. They claim to offer "high-quality designer frames with the best-in-class lenses" for pennies on the dollar, but the truth is that they’re just marking up the frames and lenses to make a profit.
And don’t even get me started on the "AI-powered platform" that recommends glasses based on facial recognition. It’s just a fancy way of saying that XP Health is using your face to sell you more glasses.
But XP Health isn’t the only company that’s taking out the middleman in eyewear. There are plenty of other startups and established companies that are offering similar services. So why should anyone care about XP Health?
Well, for starters, XP Health is the only company that’s taking on the incumbent vision insurance providers, VSP and EyeMed Vision Care. And that’s because what XP Health offers is not insurance in a traditional sense. It’s just a corporate benefit, a way for companies to offer their employees a "perk" that’s actually just a way to make more money off of them.
So, is XP Health a game-changer in the vision care industry? Not in my book. It’s just another example of how the rich get richer and the poor get screwed.
