Brick
company on 5 shows · 15 statements across 5 episodes · said 68 times in 12 episodes since 2016
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Hamdi: Brick bills by robot via unlimited or per-minute pricing
“The way we do it is by robot. Generally it's unlimited transactions, actions, and automation minutes. We do have a consumption based model that's getting more popular where it's actually automation minutes. So the number of minutes that they, you know, basical…”
Hamdi: Brick reached cash-flow break-even last year
“Obviously we lived through those roaring twenties and, you know, had to get to cash flow break even, which we did. At the end of last year.”
Hamdi: Brick's revenue run rate is approaching $20 million
“No, we're less than that in run rate. Our, you know, our ASP is still a little bit lower than what our current average robot price is, but you're in the right ballpark.”
Hamdi: Brick burned $1M monthly while growing 150% in 2021
“We were about a million a million a month. So we're, you know, we're in there burning a million a month. And you go to every board meeting to like grow fast. We're also growing like a 150%.”
Hamdi confirms Brick's January 2024 funding round was at flat valuation
“Yeah, it was flat. It was flat. There were obviously some, you know, sprinkling in of some kickers and every founder knows that you have to do some kickers here and there, but yeah, it was flat.”
Hamdi: Brick generates more revenue today with one-third the headcount
“And I think we're doing more in revenue than we did with a third the number of employees, right?”
Hamdi: Brick aims to double revenue in three years with flat headcount
“I'd like to double the size of the company in the next three years with that, with the same headcount. That is our goal.”
Hamdi: Brick raised its seed round before writing any code
“Seed round closed before we wrote our first line of code. It was back in the good old days. So we closed our seed round and then started writing. We closed it on an idea and a dollar and a dream. ENIAC and Metaprop were the two great seed VCs.”
Sam Parr uses 'The Brick' daily until noon to block phone distractions
“Every morning when I'm getting ready to go to the gym, I walk by my door and I brick my phone, which means it's completely unusable other than making phone calls. So my wife can call me for an emergency Spotify and my workout app. And so I will keep it like th…”
Parr: Addictive technology inevitably creates demand for anti-distraction products
“What's interesting is that we build all this technology to like get, we want new, we want more convenient, we want better. And then after a while you get used to this life and it gets better and more efficient and more addicting and you want to create Things n…”
Courtney: Huge market for a digital detox brand paired with hardware
“I think there's a huge space in the market for a company to come along and be essentially the digital, you know, like the product zero for fasting, something like zero. But paired with something like Brick.”