QVC
company on 13 shows · 11 statements across 11 episodes · said 133 times in 42 episodes since 2016
How I Built This 76 
20VC 11 
the a16z Podcast 9 
Invest Like the Best 8 
BigDeal 6 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 6 
Acquired 5 
Top Founders 5 
My First Million 3 
American Optimist 1 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 1 
All-In 1 
TBPN 1
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How I Built This 7620VC 11the a16z Podcast 9Invest Like the Best 8the Startup Ideas Podcast 6BigDeal 6Top Founders 5Acquired 55 more shows
2026 29 mentions in 4 episodes 7 per episode
- Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge
- How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- Advice Line with Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali of Chomps
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2025 33 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
- How Barry Diller Built Entertainment Empires · Invest Like The Best
- Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif
- The Biggest Bets I Made — And How They Paid Off: Gary Vee
- Advice Line: Scaling Strategies
- Advice Line with Mei Xu of Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme
- Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method
- I Worked in the Most Dangerous City in the America's
- From Iran to Uber CEO | Nikhil Kamath x Dara Khosrowshahi | People by WTF | Ep. 14 · Nikhil Kamath
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2024 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
2023 19 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly
- Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: The $1BN Amazon Acquisition; How Richard Branson Invested | 20VC #984 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kimmy Scotti: How to Spot (and Build) the Next Big Thing · Joe Lonsdale
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2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, QVC for Mobile, and More
- E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand
- Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
- 20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania
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2020 10 mentions in 1 episode
2019 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
- Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson
- 20VC: Why The Current VC Financing Mechanism For Consumer Brands Is Broken, Why The Infrastructure To Power Emerging Brands Is Broken and What The Re-Platforming of Retail Means For The Next Decade in Consumer with Adam Pritzker, Chairman & CEO @ Assemble
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2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- 20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
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2017 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2016 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Spanx: Sara Blakely
- How to Sell an Expensive Course FAST with Sue Zimmerman Episode 24
- EP 329: It Costs $500k To Call Everyone in Florida, He's Behind Ted Cruz
- 20 VC FF 034: What Fintech Can Learn From Uber and The Shift From Financial Organisation To Financial Efficiency with Kelly Peeler, Founder & CEO @ NextGenVest
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
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11 statements about QVC, every show
Krause: QVC-Only Sales Model Would Inevitably Hit Saturation and Fail
“It would have been a spike, and then a saturation point, and then they would, the minute that you had a bad show, you would have been kicked off.”
Sasha Milstein: Aunt Ethel's hits $250k in sales, sells 8,000 on QVC
“So we technically launched last year, last fall, into over a hundred Wegmans locations. Nice. We then went on QVC. We aired and sold out of 8000 units in six minutes, and we just hit the quarter of a million dollar mark.”
Unsold QVC Consignment Inventory Costs Brands $4-$5 Per Kit to Repack
“QVC is interesting because they are, if I remember correctly, they're a consignment model, and you have to build a lot of inventory to test it out, and if it doesn't sell through, you own it. But you have to repack it at a cost of four to five dollars per kit …”
Early: Dripsy has surpassed one million sink strainers sold
“So yeah, we sell mostly online and also on QVC, and we actually just surpassed our one millionth happy sync that has been supplied with the Dripsy.”
Khosrowshahi: Diller Launched Hostile QVC Bid to Acquire Paramount
“Sumner Redstone, who was running Viacom, had come to an agreement to buy Paramount Pictures, which was Barry's old home, and Barry thought that he was getting a steal, so he decided to go after Paramount in a hostile tender offer, to come in as kind of a third…”
Ring Broke QVC's Single-Day Sales Record With $22.6M in One Day
“We broke the record for QVC for the year for sales in a day 22.6 million dollars in a day.”
Tarte generated up to $23,000 per minute on QVC during holiday broadcasts
“When you think about catapulting to another, like, level of sales you know, you can go on, especially in QIV, like, holiday time, and do, like, 23,000 dollars a minute.”
Tsai: Tatcha sold out its inventory on its first QVC appearance
“Finally this one merchant was kind enough to take a meeting with me, and then they gave me a chance to go up there, and we sold out.”
Swartz: Spent 80% of his workday recruiting during hyper-growth phases
“I underestimated how much time you have to spend recruiting and hiring, you know. I would spend 80% of my day sometimes interviewing and trying to find the right people”
Blakely Sold 8,000 Pairs of Spanx in Five Minutes on QVC
“And I sold 8000 pair of Spanx in five minutes.”