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Founders can find health startup verticals by checking CVS shelf space
“I think that's the hint of how you find your verticals go into a CVS. What is the over the counter stuff that you're seeing the most of? Well, that's probably the problems people are having.”
Bertolini: Aetna's sale to CVS created 2,000 new employee millionaires
“We created 2000 new millionaires when we sold the company at CVS.”
Kushner: Federal Team Planned 400 Retail COVID Testing Sites in Five Days
“And so through that, we were actually making great progress where we basically were going to get about 400 testing sites up from nothing in about four or five days.”
Brown: Retail pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens are going away
“All you have to do is look at a chart of CVS, which is in a 60% drawdown from a tie, or look at Walgreens Boots Alliance, which is in a 90% drawdown. These companies are going away.”
Brown: CVS's Aetna and Caremark acquisitions failed to deliver expected synergies
“CVS spent, like, huge amounts of money to buy Aetna, and to buy Caremark. So, buy an insurance company, buy a pharmacy pharmacy benefits manager, and basically, take, take a vertical approach to what was obviously going to be a consolidating industry. Those de…”
Gurley: US COVID rapid tests cost six times more than UK tests
“This is Walgreens and CVS antigen test. There's seven tests. They're all exactly 23 99. What is that? That's not a marketplace. That's not open competition. I also went on Boots, the famous UK. There, the tests are about a dollar 50, dollar 60. Per today. So y…”
Cohley generates 20% of revenue from project activations
“We do still have a 20% pocket of revenue that comes from project activations, primarily with like CVS and things like that.”
CVS is building a retail media network with shoppable video
“It's not intrusive, but then right there while you're watching it on, on your device, you can add the fiber one to your cart and CVS actually just did that. They're creating this whole media company so that they can control. Their audience and their, the way t…”
Weiss: Retail-first beauty brands design for shelf space, not consumer needs
“Beauty brands build products and clients for the needs of, you know, Macy's and, you know, Sephora and Ulta and CVS, and those are shelf space needs and seasonality needs and margin needs and all of these different needs that have nothing to do with you as the…”
Taussig: Amazon Benefits Startups by Weakening Legacy Retailers
“I don't think it's because Amazon helps startups. They certainly don't really do much for startups, but they have weakened the traditional retailers. I think they've made it easier for startups to scale faster and take market share away from those legacy playe…”