Joey Zwillinger

16 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 18, 2017 by Joey Zwillinger · said 8 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Aug 18, 2017 positive
Insight
Zwillinger: Low Oil Prices Force Renewable Material Companies Direct-To-Consumer
“Particularly in this environment where petroleum is really cheap right now, it puts a lot of pressure on a lot of different brands that rely on renewable materials and something that's more expensive. So really, you have to go downstream to connect with the co…”
Joey Zwillinger Aug 18, 2017 ▶ 5:22 20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
Aug 18, 2017 negative
Insight
Zwillinger: Big Brands Cannot Effectively Market Sustainable Material Innovations B2B
“When you're trying to sell from a business to business perspective, even if it's a great product, it's a good price. And it has this overwhelmingly positive message around sustainability. The big brands just don't understand how to take that and market it effe…”
Joey Zwillinger Aug 18, 2017 ▶ 4:36 20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
Aug 18, 2017 positive
Opinion
Zwillinger: Allbirds is a material innovator, not a fashion company
“So we view ourselves much more like an innovator than we do a shoe company or a fashion company, or we don't think we're ourselves really as a fashion company at all.”
Joey Zwillinger Aug 18, 2017 ▶ 24:08 20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
Nov 6, 2023 bullish
Prediction Held up
Joey Zwillinger: Allbirds will refocus on its core active lifestyle category
“And so that is the core of where we started the brand. And that's where we're going to bring everything back to with a really sharp clarity for the consumer. And the potential when we do that is going to be pretty significant. So I think in, in, in part, you'r…”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 10:15 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023 negative
Insight
Zwillinger: Remote Work Is Impossible for Physical Product Companies
“The conception of what productivity means is far too narrow. And particularly in an industry like mine, where Creativity and physical products are central to what we do that not being together is is impossible.”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 37:57 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Zwillinger: Allbirds was not structured to capitalize on pandemic demand
“And I think we were in the unfortunate position of not being structured in a way that, that could capitalize exactly on the dramatic change that had happened in that world.”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 22:04 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Joey Zwillinger Sold Zero Shares at Allbirds IPO and Minimal Shares Since
“So I've sold extraordinarily little at the IPO. I sold nothing. And then after that I've sold incredibly little.”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 29:58 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023 negative
Insight
Zwillinger: Incumbent brands couldn't effectively position green technology products
“And so it was a Sisyphean exercise for me where I realized that while the technology existed, the consumers wanted it. It was, there's no compromise offering was there for the taking and brands could not position it correctly.”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 3:54 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023
Insight
Zwillinger: An acquisition offer isn't real until paper is in front of you
“If an acquisition offer is a real acquisition offer until the piece of paper is in front of you and you have the opportunity to sign it.”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 26:56 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Allbirds Requires Core Product and Marketing Teams In-Office Four Days
“And most of the people who are closest to the central aspects of product creation and design and marketing are coming in for four days a week.”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 38:14 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Joey Zwillinger: Leading Allbirds post-IPO brought unprecedented anxiety and stress
“Over the last two years has been a layer of anxiety and stress that has been much more than previous in my life.”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 40:27 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023
Disclosure
Zwillinger: Multiple footwear and apparel companies asked to acquire Allbirds
“We've had a number of companies in the footwear space and the kind of ecosystem of apparel and footwear more broadly come to us and ask us if we were interested in selling.”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 27:08 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023
Insight
Zwillinger: Wealth Beyond Family Financial Security Has Steep Diminishing Returns
“If you're interested in making sure that you can have financial security for yourself and your family, that more than that is not going to be particularly useful to you. Like the diminishing return on that extra dollar is quite, quite significant.”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 29:17 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zwillinger denies ever asking Allbirds investors to sell their shares
“We've, I've never told someone to sell or not sell.”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 26:33 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023
Insight
Zwillinger: Domain expertise should be a reference book, not a playbook
“I often talk about with our leaders that what they bring in, Is deeply needed and deeply respected, but we need to think about it as a reference book, not a playbook.”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 11:28 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 6, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zwillinger: Allbirds will consider going private if market valuation gap persists
“If along that journey the public markets don't see the value that we're creating, and there's a big gap between the value that we are creating and what the enterprise value is of the company, then I think it's prudent to consider all options. And we have a boa…”
Joey Zwillinger Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 28:03 Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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