Mike Duboe

10 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 16, 2023 by Mike Duboe · said 13 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Feb 16, 2023
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Duboe: Stitch Fix paused national TV ads for eight weeks to test incrementality
“We ran an eight week holdout test where we actually paused national TV advertising and we would always buy nationally because it was a lot cheaper from a CPM standpoint to do so. We paused national for eight weeks. We picked five regions and we went and go bou…”
Mike Duboe Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 53:18 Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2023 positive
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Duboe: Stitch Fix boosted ad performance by replacing TV-quality ads with iPhone videos
“Some of the biggest, most impactful changes we made at Stitch Fix were, Lowering the bar to actually like creative content we just put out there. So rather than having very high produced kind of video ass TV kind of quality video assets, let people shoot stuff…”
Mike Duboe Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 51:24 Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2023
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Duboe: Pre-IPO Stitch Fix capped single-channel marketing concentration at 50 percent
“We had a constraint that I saw with my team was we would not get more than 50% concentrated in any one channel, even if it were short-term optimal to do so.”
Mike Duboe Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 49:14 Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2023 positive
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Duboe: Measurement and Creative Volume Are the Only Sustainable Marketing Advantages
“Ultimately what makes one great, or the only sustainable advantage on, on channels is having great measurement, being sophisticated measurement, and then having great volume of creative and great creative that performs.”
Mike Duboe Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 50:57 Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2023 negative
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Duboe: Funnel-based organizational structures create silos and conflicting team incentives
“Structuring org around a funnel creates silos and teams will optimize at the expense of one another.”
Mike Duboe Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 38:34 Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2023
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Mike Duboe: Head of Growth role accelerates learning and controls North Star metrics
“I kind of prefer a broad definition, which is someone who's responsible for two things. One is accelerating the company's pace of learning. This is typically done through experiments. But that's a very important, important piece. Like essentially the growth te…”
Mike Duboe Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 7:40 Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2023 positive
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Duboe: Faire maintained high analytics signal by tracking only three core metrics
“It was, you know, if you look at the dashboards and kind of what they're reporting out on, it's just very high signal and noise. And so they are Rather than going and tracking everything and reporting on everything, it was, here's actually the three things tha…”
Mike Duboe Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 17:30 Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2023
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Duboe: Quantifiable success criteria must be set upfront to avoid revisionist history
“Anyone could submit an experiment idea, even if you're not on the growth team, but we built this very simple kind of one pager framework that included an objective hypothesis you're testing design or resources required to execute the experiment timeline. So ho…”
Mike Duboe Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 0:00 Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2023
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Mike Duboe: Cross-functional pods enable autonomous growth experimentation without interfering with roadmaps
“I think part of the magic of cross-functional growth pods, which is generally the structure I prefer, is you can actually Be fully autonomous in going and running an experiment to validate or invalidate a hypothesis without actually needing to step in the road…”
Mike Duboe Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 9:17 Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2023 positive
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Duboe: Growth loops yield compounding growth while linear funnels decay at scale
“Loops, they're powerful because they lead to compounding growth systems versus typically funnels, you know, are more linear growth trajectories that will oftentimes decay with scale.”
Mike Duboe Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 36:29 Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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