Calm

“Pre-Calm, when we were thinking about the business, but we hadn't quite launched it, I created a web page called Do Nothing for Two Minutes, and this is actually how Calm got its first 100,000 users.”

“Most people are not going to read a heavy textbook, and most people will probably be turned off by the religious and spiritual kind of overtones of meditation”

“So our ambitions are very big, you know, in terms of the scale we want to reach, and at the same time, we want to have a great business and do things in a way that allow us to build for the long term, and that can mean being a profitable company as we have bee…”

“In the long run, brand is the primary interaction that a customer will have over a lifetime. Because the products will often change.”

“To date, the company's raised over a hundred and forty three million dollars in financing from some of the best, including Lightspeed, Insight, TPG, and then some very cool names, including Ashton Kutcher, Harry Styles, Brad Feld, and Jason Calicanis.”

“So it wasn't until 2018 that we did our series A first institutional capital. We've raised from Insight Venture Partners And that was six years after founding.”

“I think we were on a sixty million dollar run rate at the time when we raised our series A.”

“A lot of technology is really focused on the external world, if you like, improving the efficiency of the world that is out there, as opposed to focusing on the world within, particularly our mind and the emotional states that we're in”

“They were the sponsor of CNN's coverage for election night. Results. So it was like, election, 2020, brought to you by Calm. And it was like, hilarious, because people are like, of course, I'm freaking out mentally. It blew up on social, and I know they got li…”

“If you go to some of these sites like Calm or Noom, they have these long convoluted onboarding flows that do a really good job of roping people in Getting them through the whole kind of information journey and building intent. And that's a neat thing because i…”

“Calm or Headspace of the world, which makes mental wellness, health, they're not great businesses.”

“Really the largest mental health company is, is what? Calm? Respectfully, it's not a huge business. It's, you know, one and a half billion. Fantastic journey, but it's not a huge business.”