Ryan Caldbeck

7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2019 by Ryan Caldbeck · across every show →

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Feb 26, 2019 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2039
Caldbeck: Physical grocery stores will endure for at least 20 years
“I think grocery stores are here for the very, very long term. Very long term meaning next 20 years at least.”
Ryan Caldbeck Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 13:40 a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
Feb 26, 2019 negative
Insight
Caldbeck: Consumer receipt apps fail to capture long-tail CPG data
“The challenge has been many of them tap out at five, ten million consumers, at least here in the U.S. The problem with that level is that then that's such a small portion of the pot of the overall population that you're not capturing the long tail of companies…”
Ryan Caldbeck Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 25:09 a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
Feb 26, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Caldbeck: Grocery operates on thin 2-3% net margins, limiting tech disruption
“Grocery today, two, three percent net margin business. That's hard to strip out a lot of costs from that.”
Ryan Caldbeck Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 14:13 a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
Feb 26, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Caldbeck: Traditional retail data providers cover under 5% of CPG brands
“You've got a couple retail level sales providers that on average track 20, 30,000 Products or companies rather each. There's about a million and a half out there. A million and a half, and they cover less than five percent of them.”
Ryan Caldbeck Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 20:46 a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
Feb 26, 2019 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Caldbeck: DTC customer acquisition costs often jump tenfold within two years
“We see a lot of DTC companies raise money, you know, with a CAC, let's call it 10 dollars, 30 dollars, and then over the course of the subsequent two years, it raises literally sometimes by an order of magnitude, and that is just killing their profitability.”
Ryan Caldbeck Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 4:01 a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
Feb 26, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Caldbeck: Web data covers 30-50x more CPG brands than legacy sources
“Covers 30 to 50 times as many companies as your existing data source does.”
Ryan Caldbeck Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 35:34 a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
Feb 26, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Caldbeck: Future CPG brands won't reach multi-billion-dollar scale
“There will be more of them, but they will get to a smaller level. So what I mean is it lasts 10 or 15 years, the brands that won, Chobani, et cetera, you can build multi-billion dollar businesses. I'm skeptical if that's true in CPG going forward.”
Ryan Caldbeck Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 29:36 a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
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