Weston Gaddy
5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 21, 2015 by Weston Gaddy · across every show →
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Oct 21, 2015
Consumer loyalty can no longer be bought via ad spending
“Loyalty in the past could largely be bought by volume of advertising and by placement on the shelves in a retail environment. But now, because there are so many competing alternatives, loyalty has to be something that's earned through having better products.”
Oct 21, 2015
Oct 21, 2015
Legacy mattress sales relied on distribution incentives over quality for 40 years
“The way that mattresses has been sold was the same for 40 years. There were a couple large brands that sold through regional and national retailers, and it really wasn't about product. It was about what the incentives were in the channel to sell the product”
Oct 21, 2015
Assuming past startup failures were just bad execution is arrogance
“And this was some feedback that I got that assuming that everyone else has just done something badly in the past is arrogance. You've got to understand why now is the right time, and some structural change in a market or technology is really the only thing tha…”
Oct 21, 2015 positive
Slack succeeded through bottom-up groundswell adoption driven by product quality
“I think something like Slack could have never been born, not just because the technology wasn't there, but because it was a sort of groundswell of support for this one communication method that just sort of blew up out of nowhere because the product itself was…”