Jesse Genet
9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 4, 2018 by Jesse Genet · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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May 4, 2018 positive
Accessible manufacturing will drive a surge of challenger brands across all categories
“If you democratize access to the best manufacturing and make supply chain easier to manage, what that leads to is it becomes easier, kind of in the same way Shopify made it so much easier for us all to launch our ideas on a whim. It becomes easier for fantasti…”
May 4, 2018
Bootstrapped founders often fail to leverage capital to save time
“Working with a creator is a great example of spending money to save time. The concept that if you get that hire in two months instead of eight months, you've fundamentally shifted your roadmap forward. That is a type of thinking that is not very common in a bo…”
May 4, 2018
Lumi co-founders raised $13,000 on Kickstarter in 2009
“The first company that we started was a product that we launched on Kickstarter while we were still in school studying industrial design. So back in 2009, when Kickstarter was just months old instead of years old, we posted a project that got funded for a whop…”
May 4, 2018 negative
An investor fell asleep during a pitch meeting with Jesse Genet
“Well, I'm pretty sure someone actually slept through a meeting I took with them, so that, that was a pretty strong signal, but I, they looked very, very tired, and they had, like, kind of shiny glasses on. I couldn't really see whether their eyes were open, bu…”
May 4, 2018
A stable 40-hour job might have stopped Genet's entrepreneurial journey
“If I had ever had a taste of, like, a real income where you work 40 hours a week and someone, like, just tells you you're doing good because you've done a reasonable amount of work, I have no concept about whether I would have done any of this.”
May 4, 2018 negative
May 4, 2018
A VC repeatedly asked Jesse Genet if Lumi made physical boxes
“There was one meeting I took where someone kept asking whether I was truly talking about boxes. Like, I would be like, and then this is happening in the industry, and here's how the corrugated equipment works. And they'd be like, we're talking, like, you mean …”
May 4, 2018 positive
VC diversity directly dictates what types of companies get built
“It's an industry that affects such massive change, trickle-down, relating to what kind of companies get built, and so, That's the nature of why it would be so cool to see diversity. It's not just seeing it. It's feeling it. It's actually feeling like the world…”
May 4, 2018 negative
Founders notice when a VC firm's only woman is an assistant
“I think that's something maybe funds don't realize is, like, how much we notice everything. Like, I notice if the only woman involved in me seeing your firm was your assistant who scheduled me to come in. I, like, we notice all this stuff, and I would love to …”