The Ledger, every show
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.
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every show 44 of 44
Pets.com didn't go bankrupt; it shut down and returned cash to investors
“We actually didn't go bankrupt. We shut the company down and returned the remaining balance to the investors, which no public company had ever done before.”
Conrad: Pets.com did not go bankrupt and returned cash to investors
“We actually didn't go bankrupt. We shut the company down and returned the remaining balance to the investors, which no public company had ever done before.”
Conrad: Quibi's model required ranking top 10 in App Store forever
“The math of Quibi, like, did require us to, like, from day one, land in the top 10 and stay there forever. Like, the model would have worked if we could do that.”
Conrad: Pandora spent zero dollars on paid acquisition during his tenure
“We never spent any money on paid user acquisition, like literally no dollars the entire time I was there. Because people love the product, and they told their friends about it, and that's how it grew.”
Conrad: GIF creator Steve Wilhite fought for the 'Jif' pronunciation at CompuServe
“There was a guy on the team named Steve Wilhite who invented graphics interchange format, GIF. And he was a straight out of central casting, 19 sixties neckbeard programmer type. And the first I had ever encountered and very prickly. And it's crazy. But at the…”
Conrad: Pets.com and rivals each raised over $50 million
“One of the things that happened was that there were three kind of overfunded pet e-commerce sites, and we all raised in excess of fifty million dollars”
Quibi produced 70 shows in 18 months before shutting down
“We made 70 shows. In 18 months, which is like more content than all of the major broadcast networks combined made in a single year.”
Conrad: PetSmart's $3B Chewy acquisition was the largest e-commerce buyout ever
“Chewy is a online pet store worth nine billion dollars today. They were a private company and bought by PetSmart and then spun back out. But when they were bought by PetSmart, they were acquired for three billion dollars. You know biggest e-commerce acquisitio…”
Conrad: Quibi made 70 shows in 18 months, topping broadcast networks
“We made 70 shows. In 18 months, which is like more content than all of the major broadcast networks combined made in a single year.”