Lumi
7 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 4, 2018 by Jesse Genet · said 31 times in 3 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (19), Jesse Genet (12)
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2019 2 mentions in 1 episode
2018 29 mentions in 2 episodes 15 per episode
- 20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Bootstrapped Founders, How Content Can Be Used As A Key Customer Acquisition Tool & How To Use Humour When "S*** Hits The Fan" with Jesse Genet, Founder & CEO @ Lumi
- 20VC: Why Follow-On Investments Are Always A Better Investment, Why Spray and Pray Investing Is Like The Stock Market & Why Startups Need A Board From Day One with Jerry Neumann
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Lumi, oldest first
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 positive
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 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
Lumi's YouTube series paid for itself within months via B2B acquisitions
“It was a matter of months for us. I mean, we, you know, my personal project, the Shipping Things YouTube show, started last March, and by early summer, like June, we could point to specific customers who discovered us via that content, had onboarded, and were …”