Michael Dubin
5 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 10, 2016 by David Pakman · said 25 times in 6 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (16), David Pakman (4), Woody Marshall (1), Peter Pham (1), Kirsten Green (1), Greg Bettinelli (1), Ethan Kurzweil (1)
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2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: VC of The Year: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on 2 $Bn+ Exits in 1 Year, Why We Are In The Very Early Innings For Commerce & How Brand Has Fundamentally Changed Over The Last Decade
- 20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 22 mentions in 3 episodes 7 per episode
- 20VC: Dollar Shave Club's Series A & B Lead Investor, David Pakman on The Requirements For A Successful Subscription Business & Why A Lot of Investors Do Not Like Consumer
- 20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- 20VC: Upfront Ventures' Greg Bettinelli on Testing For Founder 'Grit' & What It Takes To Build A Successful Consumer Brand Today
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Michael Dubin, oldest first
Aug 10, 2016 bullish
Dollar Shave Club showed extraordinarily low early cohort churn
“I flew to LA quickly and sat down with Michael and his team and started to go through the numbers. And I was very specifically focused on, let me see churn. Let me look, let me see what the early cohort churns are. And they were extraordinarily low.”
Aug 10, 2016 positive
Dollar Shave Club sold to Unilever to accelerate global scaling
“Michael and the management team were ultimately convinced that Hey, we can get so much bigger, so much more quickly by working with these guys, then continuing on the independent path, and we like them. So that was really what led to the decision to undertake …”
Aug 10, 2016 negative
Jun 28, 2017 neutral
Bessemer Passed on Dollar Shave Club by Overanalyzing Unit Economics
“It was Dollar Shave Club meeting meeting Michael, the founder there very early on, and just, I was always very, he was just an impressive guy. You could see it in his videos. You can see it in his personality. This is someone that'll just will this thing to su…”
Jul 17, 2017 positive
The market overlooked Michael Dubin's serious vision behind Dollar Shave Club
“I think that the market got totally taken by the video, and I think they misread that as a amazing go-to-market gimmick, and they might have missed how amazingly serious Michael is as an entrepreneur and a leader and a businesswoman. Vision that was behind tha…”