Grove
other on 6 shows · 5 statements across 2 episodes · said 25 times in 6 episodes since 2018
20VC 17 
TBPN 4 
Latent Space 1 
Top Founders 1 
How I Built This 1 
All-In 1
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2018 18 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
- 20VC: The Fundamentals Of Optimising The Fundraising Process, SAFE's vs Priced Equity Rounds & Why Hiring Is Really A Big Data Problem with Chris Hutchins, Founder @ Grove & Former Partner @ Google Ventures
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Coogan: Caruso employs open-carrying LAPD officers and facial recognition at The Grove
“They have off duty LAPD officers who actually open carry a sidearm. They used to be discreet kind of undercover, but then they changed this to carry to show the gun. And they also have facial recognition cameras, license plate scanners, a bunch of different te…”
Coogan: The Grove's one-block trolley required full train regulatory licensing
“And the trolley is a crazy story because that needed, even though it just goes one block, it needed to be licensed as a train. So we had to go through all the train regulations to get it approved.”
Coogan: The Grove drew 20M pre-pandemic visitors, topping Disneyland
“The Grove became one of the region's top attractions with about twenty million visitors in the immediate pre-pandemic years, edging out Disneyland.”
Hutchins takes minimal salary and relies on savings to build Grove
“Yeah, I would say relative to Silicon Valley, I probably have a low risk Risk tolerance. I'm not entirely investing my life savings in Bitcoin. I'm not a rabid angel investor. I think compared to the rest of the world, I'm probably pretty high risk tolerance i…”
Startup hiring requires a single leader and hundreds of candidate contacts
“Put one person in charge, and step one is just define the process and put someone in charge. If that person loves data even better, and just understand that it is a longer slog than I think anyone who's never been in charge of it realizes, and it might take yo…”