TJ Parker
13 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 17, 2018 by David Frankel · said 42 times in 10 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (14), David Frankel (13), George Zachary (11), Fred Destin (3), Avi Eyal (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 11 mentions in 1 episode
2019 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- 20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- 20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 16 mentions in 1 episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about TJ Parker, oldest first
Sep 17, 2018
Oct 12, 2020 bullish
Jun 5, 2023
TJ Parker: Academic overachievers struggle to transition into startups
“I sort of have come to terms with the fact that I think it's very hard for like the classic overachiever that sat in the front row every, you know, in every class and always delivered papers on time and always got A's in every, every one of their classes. To g…”
Jun 5, 2023
Jun 5, 2023
TJ Parker: A decade in corporate pharmacy would have prevented founding PillPack
“If I had been working in pharmacy for a decade as an adult, there's no way I would have started a pill pack, because there were very specific reasons it shouldn't have worked, and I think that's where the naivety is really powerful.”
Jun 5, 2023
Jun 5, 2023
Jun 5, 2023
PillPack's core product model originated from TJ Parker's father's B2B pharmacy
“My dad had started this totally new pharmacy that was sorting and packaging meds actually very similar to PillPack. But they were selling into nursing homes and assisted living facilities. It wasn't a consumer business.”
Jun 5, 2023
Jun 5, 2023
PillPack maintained a five-person executive meeting while generating hundreds of millions
“By the time we sold the company, you know, we've got a thousand people, we're doing a few hundred million in top line, the entirety of that meeting was me Yvonne, who was COO, CFO, legal HR, kind of all those functions, Elliot, who was product and tech, Jeff, …”
Jun 5, 2023 negative
TJ Parker: Adopting a GM org structure immediately turns a startup into a big company
“Maybe somewhat controversially, I think the second you go to a GM-focused org, you're not a startup anymore, like you are a big company. And almost all of the downsides of a big company that people bemoan the amount of HR, the amount of overhead and decision m…”
Jun 5, 2023
Jun 5, 2023
TJ Parker: Understanding customer problems matters more than industry nuances
“I think it's really important to understand the customer problem. I think it's less important in understanding, like, all of the nuance of the industry and dynamics and other things that are going on. But I do think if you don't deeply understand the customer …”