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Gautam Gupta: Operating experience is not required to be a great VC
“My perspective is, I think that you do not need operating experience to be a great investor, right? So first off, I think a lot of people in Silicon Valley believe that you need to be an operator in order to invest and to be a good VC. I don't believe that's t…”
Gautam Gupta: Founders should withhold detailed information to create investor allure
“So I think, you know, it's good to know who the investors are that might be interested in your business, but I wouldn't share too much information personally. I would really generate that allure of, you know, you're doing something cool and interesting and, yo…”
Gautam Gupta: Top 20 CPG companies lost $20B market share since 2014
“The stat is that the top 20 CPG companies lost twenty billion dollars of market share over the last three years.”
Gautam Gupta: Most large CPG companies lack a real e-commerce strategy
“Most of the large CPG companies Don't really have an e-commerce strategy. Their e-commerce strategy is, yeah, we'll sell some stuff on Amazon. I mean, that's not really a strategy, right?”
Gautam Gupta: Subscription sampling boxes will decline while proprietary brands succeed
“I think some subscription companies will continue to rise, and I think those are ones with a proprietary product and a unique experience. I think the sampling boxes and vendors will have really challenging times, and I think those may go away.”
NatureBox pre-sold 100 boxes via Facebook ads before the product existed
“The first thing that we did is we put a landing page up that was Naturebox.com, it showed a picture of what the box looked like, and then you could click a buy now button. And if you clicked that buy now button, you actually got sent to PayPal, where you could…”
Gautam Gupta: Acquisition payback period is the core B2C capital efficiency metric
“Well, I think what we're seeing is on the B to C business, I would argue that one of the most important metrics is actually payback. So how quickly can you pay back on your customer acquisition cost? And that for me is a metric of capital efficiency in these m…”
NatureBox launched in Target and on Delta flights over 600 miles
“Well, for us, we just had a really exciting year where we launched products at Target in April of last year, and then in December, we launched on Delta Airlines. So we are actually on every Delta flight greater than 600 miles in length, and it's incredibly exc…”
NatureBox charges $15 per employee monthly for its corporate snack program
“Pay for snacks the same way that you would pay for employee benefits. So for 15 dollars per employee per month, you get unlimited snack.”