retail

9 statements across 8 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Oct 2, 2015 by Eric Glyman · across every show →

Everything said about retail, oldest first

Oct 2, 2015 negative
Insight
Glyman: Retail sales rely heavily on consumer ignorance of promotion cycles
“What stuck with me over the years was every, every weekend, there'd be these super sales for 20% off. Families would come in, spend thousands of dollars, and what was weird was every Monday things would be 40% off, and it was rinse and repeat. You would push p…”
Eric Glyman Oct 2, 2015 ▶ 2:39 FF 015: Y COMBINATOR WEEK: Eric Glyman, Co-Founder & CEO @ Paribus
Jan 8, 2016
Assertion Partly supported
Mazour: E-commerce is a $2T to $3T market
“E-commerce is a two to three trillion dollar market with retail being 10 times bigger than that.”
Ivan Mazour Jan 8, 2016 ▶ 12:20 20 VC FF 029: VC vs Angel Funding & The Future of E-Commerce with Ivan Mazour, Founder @ Ometria
Mar 12, 2018 bullish
Opinion
Taussig: Retail is not dying, only specific visible formats are failing
“It's not that retail is dying. It's that there's a few formats of retail that are no longer working, but those formats are highly visible.”
Alex Taussig Mar 12, 2018 ▶ 9:10 20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
Mar 15, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Retail re-platforming will make starting consumer brands progressively easier
“As retail is replatformed, it will only get easier to start brands and organize all the pieces of the value chain to get product to market quickly.”
Adam Pritzker Mar 15, 2019 ▶ 8:42 20VC: Why The Current VC Financing Mechanism For Consumer Brands Is Broken, Why The Infrastructure To Power Emerging Brands Is Broken and What The Re-Platforming of Retail Means For The Next Decade in Consumer with Adam Pritzker, Chairman & CEO @ Assemble
May 6, 2019 neutral
Insight
Series A and B retail startups carry lower loss risk than software
“I think the loss ratio generally should be lower because you can underwrite a more stable business. So because valuation multiples are lower within e-commerce and retail investing, the ability to massively overvalue a business with very low revenue Who might a…”
Brendan Wallace May 6, 2019 ▶ 24:06 20VC: Why Consumer Brands Must Embrace Physical Retail To Avoid Inflated Online CACs, How To Alter Fund Strategy When Investing In Consumer Retail & Why The Era of The 1,000 Store Brand Is Over with Brendan Wallace, Founder and Managing Partner @ Fifth Wa
May 6, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Retail is a $6 trillion market that has grown for a decade
“It's a six trillion dollar market. It's been growing for nearly a decade.”
Brendan Wallace May 6, 2019 ▶ 8:17 20VC: Why Consumer Brands Must Embrace Physical Retail To Avoid Inflated Online CACs, How To Alter Fund Strategy When Investing In Consumer Retail & Why The Era of The 1,000 Store Brand Is Over with Brendan Wallace, Founder and Managing Partner @ Fifth Wa
Jul 22, 2022
Insight
Samani: Retail investors have a far higher appetite for venture-like returns
“One thing I've discovered is there's a lot more demand for venture scale return, or I should say venture skew of returns among retail than you would previously think.”
Kyle Samani Jul 22, 2022 ▶ 14:51 Kyle Samani: Why Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Inflation | 20VC #909 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 30, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Tomaino: Solana was an insider VC token marketed to retail
“I have historically viewed Solana as a very tourist thing, you know, because it came in kind of right at the beginning of the last bull markets. It was, you know, aggressively marketing. There's also one of these insider VC coins that sold a lot to early insid…”
Nick Tomaino Oct 30, 2023 ▶ 58:17 Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Retail Investors Gain Earlier Access to Private Markets via Perpetuals
“With pre-IPO, with prediction markets, retail gets access to these markets earlier and earlier.”
Paul Erlang Jun 27, 2026 ▶ 9:00 How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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