Katrina Lake

8 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 23, 2016 by Rebecca Kaden · said 11 times in 7 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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2016 3 mentions in 1 episode

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Everything said about Katrina Lake, oldest first

Mar 23, 2016 positive
Opinion
Kaden: Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake is exceptional at team building
“An entrepreneur who's fantastic at that, even though she's not in our portfolio is Katrina Lake at Stitch Fix. I've learned a lot from watching her. She just has hired an incredible team to execute there.”
Rebecca Kaden Mar 23, 2016 ▶ 7:40 20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
Dec 3, 2020 negative
Opinion
Katrina Lake: Traditional Retail and Early E-Commerce Failed at Apparel Discovery
“The store's world is broken for obvious reasons of just putting every single skew on the floor and expecting people to sift through it. But what was interesting was just, you know, kind of e-commerce and online and all of the kind of new technology to me still…”
Katrina Lake Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 2:51 20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
Dec 3, 2020
Insight
Katrina Lake: Personal Trust Lets Leaders Act Without Explaining Every Detail
“To be able to build that trust of people feeling like they know me as a human helps when I can't share every single detail around why we decided to make a decision, or when I can't bring people along on every single detail after why, and being able to have tha…”
Katrina Lake Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 23:12 20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
Dec 3, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Stitch Fix Reached Cash Flow Positivity in 3 Years on $42M Raised
“Prior to their IPO in 2017, Katrina raised just forty two million dollars in venture funding, from some of the very best in venture, including Bill Gurley at Benchmark and Steve Anderson at Baseline, and in just six years, Katrina took the company from foundin…”
Harry Stebbings Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 0:28 20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
Dec 3, 2020
Disclosure
Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake Maintains Her Own Active Styling Clients
“I have Clients of my own. And I literally, I mean, I could fire up a fix right now and style it while talking to you.”
Katrina Lake Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 6:10 20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
Dec 3, 2020 positive
Insight
Katrina Lake: Customer LTV Is the Best North Star Metric
“Really focusing on what is the lifetime value of a customer and what are all the ways that you can increase and improve that? Like, I think that is, I mean, it's just the best North star.”
Katrina Lake Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 17:54 20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
Dec 3, 2020 negative
Opinion
Katrina Lake: Disproportionate Capital Gives Male Founders More Chances to Succeed
“Raising hundreds of millions of dollars, like it's such a huge advantage. And like, I think it was really hard to watch a lot of, you know, like mostly male founders, many who are bombastic and, you know, have these big visions. And I felt like my vision was b…”
Katrina Lake Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 13:35 20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
Dec 3, 2020
What-if
Katrina Lake Would Have Joined Stitch Fix Rather Than Founding It
“Candidly, I would have been perfectly happy working at Stitch Fix, but when I spent a lot of time in the landscape and understanding what are companies doing, and, like, who is at the forefront of what's going to be the future of shopping, I really didn't see …”
Katrina Lake Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 3:13 20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
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