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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Calm comes up
20VC: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings So I'm thrilled to welcome Alex Chu, co-founder and co-CEO at Calm, the number one app for meditation and sleep, allowing you to find your calm, sleep more, stress less, and live better. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:02 Harry Stebbings But that's quite enough for me, so now I'm very excited to hand over to a fellow Brit, Alex Chu, co-founder and co-CEO at Calm.
- ▶ 7:08 Alex Tew And it was kind of funny that the most meaningful thing that I should be working on, which is now Calm, was something that I'd been thinking about even before the Million Dollar Homepage.
- ▶ 8:58 Alex Tew In the case of calm, the world is not getting any less stressed or anxious, and we all have a mind, and learning to take care of it is imperative. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:30 Alex Tew And when we were thinking about Calm in the early days, we were really excited by this really singular clarity and purpose that we had for what Calm could 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:17 Alex Tew Depends on the business, but in the case of Calm, we have a really healthy mix of organic and paid, but most important thing is to have a paid acquisition that is efficient and profitable and on a reasonable timeline. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Alex Tew 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:06 Alex Tew If I had listened to various people along the way, then calm wouldn't exist, and sometimes you really just have to follow your intuition and conviction on something.
- ▶ 20:20 Harry Stebbings Com's been such a category creation play and a consumer education play. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:16 Harry Stebbings Con was by no means the first entrepreneurial endeavor for you. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:07 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, I'm sure there were transition moments to you in terms of how the business was viewed externally, but you know, for the last few years, Calm has obviously been an absolute tear. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:46 Alex Tew Probably Michael Acton-Smith, my co-founder at Calm. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:00 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, in terms of like the next five years for you and for Calm, what does that look like? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:09 Harry Stebbings Not only great to have another Brit on the show, but what an incredible business Alex and Michael have built with Calm.
20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings West Coast franchises in the new scene of entrance, with a portfolio including the likes of Lambda, Calm, GitLab, Affirm, Bird, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- ▶ 44:56 Jude Gomila And I think some people had written off, but now with Calm, you know, he's got a unicorn.