Eddy Lu
person on 2 shows · 6 statements across 2 episodes · said 6 times in 4 episodes since 2018
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Lenny's Podcast 1
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2018 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- 20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
- 20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
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GOAT founders originally applied to YC with a group dining concept
“When Eddie and Darshan applied, they were not doing the sneaker company. They were doing this group Sort of book a book a group dinner at a restaurant with people you don't know as a way to meet new people.”
Eddy Lu: Founders should execute daily micro-pivots when things are not working
“You make micro pivots even when you're building a startup and you have that initial vision. So for me, it's, you know, whether it's a micro pivot on a daily basis or a big pivot, if you know that something's not working, Just change it up.”
Eddy Lu: High customer acquisition costs made Grub With Us unviable
“What we saw was that it cost so much money to acquire a customer because of all those friction points that we knew that, This wasn't going to be a just a mass market business.”
Eddy Lu: Half of GOAT's Y Combinator cohort split over co-founder friction
“Half our white combinator batch broke up right after the batch because of co-founder issues”
Eddy Lu: Co-founder breakups stem from ego and fighting over CEO titles
“One place where I see that it goes wrong is ego, to be honest. When we saw our Y Combinator batch, there was a lot of people who wanted to be CEO because that was the position to be, rather than saying who's the best person to be CEO.”