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“50% of people in this country don't live within driving distance of a Whole Foods, and even more of them can't afford the premiums, even if they do.”

“I think it was in the thirty million dollar range, so tens of millions of dollars.”

“We had gotten just ridiculed left and right by investors when we went out with our projections, and I think our projections had us doing fifteen million in the first year.”

“At the time we were actually losing money on each order that went out the door, which means the more that you grow, the more money you lose.”

“I mean, at that point we were burning more than a million dollars a month, and so that was a challenge.”

“At a certain point, we had to sort of tell them to stop promoting. Because we couldn't handle the volume. So we were at that point just operationally really compromised, and as the business sort of continued to grow, we were approaching a hundred million dolla…”

“So, you know, our number one acquisition channel today is unpaid. It's referral. It's members telling members.”

“Yeah, so we're running the business profitably, operating cash flow positive, and back at that, those early days, you know, we were losing money on every order.”

“We were doing in the low seven figures. And, you know, the profitability was, it was in the hundreds of thousand dollars”

“He in about 10 weeks built for a fraction of the funds what we had failed to build over the prior, you know, four to six months.”

“We went to a bunch of VCs in San Francisco. We took a trip out to New York. We visited every VC that we could find in LA, and we got intros to most of them through Launchpad, and we were rejected every single time.”

“So we raised a million and a half in the seed round.”

“She's in her mid-twenties, and she wrote a post about Thrive, and within 24 hours, we had orders coming in from All 48 states in the continental US.”

“And so we raised thirty million dollars.”

“The valuation was 20 times higher than it had been six months earlier.”

“It costs a lot, especially when we had to shut down the coconut oil program a few months later and got stuck with a million and a half dollars of coconut oil inventory.”

“So one of the first things we did there, what, and like maybe one of the only good decisions we made at that stage of the business was to start working on private label. And so that rapidly grew to, you know, 15% of our sales.”

“Well over half a billion in sales last year.”

“The membership renewal rates are over 70%.”

“So we decided, let's focus on the dry assortment. That's half of what people buy in the grocery store anyway.”

“60 dollars at the beginning, 60 dollars today.”