Warby Parker
9 statements across 9 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Sep 5, 2016 by Ben Lerer · said 114 times in 65 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (73), Phin Barnes (4), Mike Salguero (4), Henry Davis (4), Eurie Kim (4), Davis Smith (3), Sumeet Shah (2), Nick Brown (2)
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2023 17 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 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
- 20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture
- 20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 58 mentions in 26 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
- 20VC: Why Risk Is Misunderstood In Entrepreneurship, Why Acquisitions Are Cheap For Incumbents Today & 3 Strategies To Improve Diversity In Your Team with Henry Davis, President & COO @ Glossier
- 20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- 20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary
- 20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League
- 20VC: Why Process is Everything In Good Venture Firms, Why GPs Should Have More Empathy For LPs and Lessons from 32 Years In VC, Chairing Over 25 Boards with Peter Parker, Managing Partner @ Bioinnovation Capital
- 20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English
- 20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 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: Benchmark's Scott Belsky on What Makes Truly The Best VCs? Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on 'The First Mile' & The Key Ingredients To The Perfect Onboarding Process
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 24 mentions in 20 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A
- 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- 20VC: Greylock's Sarah Tavel on What Founders Need From A Good Investor and Why Products Need To Be 10X Better & Cheaper
- 20VC: Redpoint's Tom Tunguz on Winning with Data: How To Gain A Competitive Advantage & Dominate Markets with Data and 5 Steps To Create A Data Driven Company
- 20VC: Upfront Ventures' Greg Bettinelli on Testing For Founder 'Grit' & What It Takes To Build A Successful Consumer Brand Today
- 20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- 20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- 20VC: What LP's Want In VCs with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
Everything said about Warby Parker, oldest first
Sep 5, 2016 positive
Ben Lerer: Long-Term Independent Startups Must Provide Early Investors Periodic Liquidity
“Generally speaking, we'd love our companies to sort of take the approach that you've seen a war be take, for instance, which is we're going to build something for 20 years. We're going to put our heads down. And then in those situations, you would hope that th…”
Jan 12, 2018 neutral
Davis: Early DTC giants won primarily through supply chain efficiencies
“Warby Parker and Harry's and Dollar Shave Club and so on and so forth were doing wonderful things. They'd typically been supply chain disruption businesses, and they'd been targeting efficiencies in the supply chain to give the customer a cost saving or an eff…”
Feb 23, 2018 positive
Warby Parker and Casper warrant VC backing through supply chain innovation
“At first glance, you might say that a number of companies like Warby Parker or Casper traditionally wouldn't be venture backed companies because they're kind of traditional e-commerce product companies. But I think as you dive into the supply chain, you dive i…”
Aug 6, 2018 bearish
Brown: The era of building DTC brands purely on paid ads is over
“I think we are in probably the end of the bubble of brands or direct-to-consumer businesses that are purely building their businesses off paid channels. And by paid channels, I mean mainly Facebook and mainly a little bit of Google. I think that era is done. T…”
Dec 14, 2018
May 4, 2021 positive
Stebbings: David Tisch made early angel investments in Vine and Warby Parker
“Prior to smashing the world of seed with Box, David was managing director of Techstars New York, and was a prolific angel investor alongside it, making early angel investments in the likes of Vine and Warby Parker, to name a few.”
Oct 2, 2023 positive
Barnes: Warby Parker Succeeded on Supply Chain and D2C, Not Design
“The first time we met Warby Parker, Those guys didn't have design sense. You know, Dave dresses pretty well now, but he didn't then. And like, there was no like style person on that team, but the truth is that the glasses had to look good, but that wasn't the …”
Dec 15, 2023
Smith: Consumers will not buy products solely for social good
“People that's wonderful, but people are not going to buy, buy your product because you're doing good in the world. You need to first create a great product. And he was absolutely right. So I really do think that's first, like you have to go build a great produ…”