consumer products

also referred to as: consumer product

5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 23, 2022 by Grant LaFontaine · across every show →

Everything said about consumer products, oldest first

Mar 23, 2022 negative
Insight
Building Consumer Products Requires Deep Empathy Rather Than Metric Formulas
“Building great consumer companies is not a mathematical equation. It's like when I go and look around, like all of the materials about how do I build product? How do I think about this? There's so much stuff on retention and cohorts and metrics and this and th…”
Grant LaFontaine Mar 23, 2022 ▶ 21:36 20VC: Startups Fail Because They Do Not Take Enough Risk, Why A/B Testing is Inefficient and Slows You Down, Why It is Impossible To Hire Good PMs so Stop Trying & 3 Key Signals The Best Engineers Present with Grant LaFontaine, Founder & CEO @ Whatnot
Feb 27, 2023 negative
Opinion
Tisch: Consumers are bored with today's software because none is fun
“The trend to me that's most interesting is that people are bored with today's consumer products. None of them are fun.”
David Tisch Feb 27, 2023 ▶ 1:04:53 David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 22, 2023 negative
Insight
Powers: Brands built on Instagram impulse buys cannot survive long-term
“Great product, great brand, meaningful to consumers will outlast the marketing spend. If your brand and your product is interesting for a moment because you saw it on Instagram feed and you clicked through and you bought it, and then you kind of forget about i…”
Dave Powers Dec 22, 2023 ▶ 52:45 Dave Powers: The Meteoric Rise of Hoka Running | E1098 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 23, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Harries: ElevenLabs Uses Consumer Entry Point to Acquire Cheap Leads
“We actually have done this funky move of we've led in a consumer product, which enables us to get the CAC incredibly cheap, and then people may move up to creator or even enterprise.”
Luke Harries May 23, 2025 ▶ 39:16 20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
Dec 11, 2025
Insight
O'Driscoll: The definitive consumer product test is immediate morning-after repurchasing
“The only test you need to run on this one is this. If you lost it today, would you go out and buy another one tomorrow morning?”
Rory O'Driscoll Dec 11, 2025 ▶ 1:10:18 SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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