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Eddy Lu: 30% of Yeezy sneaker listings on eBay are counterfeit

“You go to eBay today and type in Yeezy, and about 30% of the listings aren't real.”

Eddy Lu Jul 27, 2018 ▶ 15:07 20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown

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Eddy Lu: Half of GOAT's Y Combinator cohort split over co-founder friction

“Half our white combinator batch broke up right after the batch because of co-founder issues”

Eddy Lu Jul 27, 2018 ▶ 12:09 20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Eddy Lu: GOAT gained 100,000 users in one week during Black Friday

“So that week leading up to black Friday, we had over a 100,000 users sign up and it crashed our site every single day.”

Eddy Lu Jul 27, 2018 ▶ 20:01 20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown

Assertion Supported

Eddy Lu: Physical sneaker retailers only stock around 200 shoe models

“If you go into a sneaker retailer today, there's about 200 shoes that you can buy, and those are shoes that didn't sell out, that are just kind of the sale items that they couldn't move.”

Eddy Lu Jul 27, 2018 ▶ 26:31 20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown

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