Mike Smith

5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Mike Smith · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Smith: Amazon will restrict same-day delivery to groceries and next-day elsewhere
“I don't buy that there's a lot of product demand for same day. I think that Amazon will do same day for grocery because it makes sense on fresh. I don't, I believe they'll do next day on everything else.”
Mike Smith Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 41:25 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: Walmart.com had at least eight management layers above warehouse staff
“The, you know, sort of warehouse staff at walmart.com versus where I was in my position, there was at least eight layers”
Mike Smith Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:37 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Smith: Stitch Fix caps fulfillment volume using inventory, styling, and warehouse limits
“At Stitch Fix, ah, we try to have quality be the foundation, and the three constraints being quality of inventory, how many stylists can pick the five things after the algorithm runs, and ops capacity, And that drives what we actually do.”
Mike Smith Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 55:31 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Smith: Stitch Fix scaled warehouse space from 500 to 450,000 square feet
“When I first started at the company, ah, we did pick, pack, and ship out of 505 hundred square feet. Which was half of our office. Then two months later we moved to a thousand square feet. Then two months after that, we moved to 9000 square feet, and now we're…”
Mike Smith Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:58 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Smith: Stitch Fix builds custom software because off-the-shelf tools fail
“I don't have, we're building it all ourselves, and so we use Zendesk for customer service but I'd say that the tie-ins to Zendesk are very proprietary in terms of, like, how tickets how we think about tickets related to customer segmentation, or how we think a…”
Mike Smith Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 50:42 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
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