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Minted avoids diversity quotas in favor of a meritocratic hiring process
“We're not a company that says we must have this level of diversity at all levels. We are a company that says we must have a bias free and meritocratic process to evaluating sourcing talent and evaluating it.”
Minted keeps paid customer acquisition under 30% of its total mix
“So I think a healthy ratio for us, we have a very high bar, I would say, would be under 30% paid as a percentage of our acquisition mix.”
Minted artists radically transform their skills within 18 months of peer feedback
“They transform within 18 months of continuous feedback and critique from their peers, and they become unrecognizable from where they started.”
Delaying early VC funding preserved Naficy's equity in Minted
“I mean, I've retained a much larger ownership stake in the company, which is what I wanted to do. Then I think I would have had I taken money early, bigger money earlier.”
Minted was constantly near failure and out of cash for five years
“Every year for the first four or five years when Minted was constantly almost going out of business. Because we were almost all, almost always out of cash. It was brutal the first couple of years of building this business.”