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Scriven: Tech's greatest opportunity is modernizing traditional businesses
“Over the past, call it, you know, 15 years Silicon Valley had developed a tremendous arsenal of enabling technologies that you know, we're reaching in some ways kind of a maximal use in, in the context of, you know, social media and all the things we love buil…”
Scriven: Major US banks blackballed True Glory Brands over false drug suspicions
“And one of the things that I learned in the course of acquiring the business was that he had been blackballed from virtually every major bank in the United States.
And the reason for this,
Was because they all presumed which is boldly false, obviously, but pre…”
Scriven: Mission-driven culture cannot be manufactured without real product impact
“The creation of a mission driven culture is a company that's building a product that has an actual mission, you know, and where that mission, like, you know, makes a difference in the world, period. You can't make it up.”
Tyler Scriven predicts US e-commerce will triple over the next decade
“I mean, the e-commerce, e-commerce in the U.S. Will triple most likely over the next decade in the U.S.
You know, it's taken us 24 years, you know, to get to where we are today.
And we're going to you know, two and a half, three X at
You know over the next 10…”
Tyler Scriven: The future of logistics is hyperlocal, micro-warehousing at scale
“The future is, is one where logistics becomes increasingly local and increasingly small.
I mean, it, a massive an aggregate but hyperlocal at scale.
and so the notion then of hyper-local micro warehousing, you know, I think is one that's going to be you know,…”
Scriven: Tackling Hard Problems Results in Less Competition
“You know, you're probably going to have less competition because people are just afraid to do that.”
Tyler Scriven: US Has World's Highest Density of Entrepreneurial Minds
“You know, this country at least as of today, has the greatest density of entrepreneurial minded people of any country in the world.”
Scriven: Wife Faith was among Stripe's first three employees
“My wife Faith she's a pretty low key person, but she was actually it's a debate whether she was the first or second or maybe, maybe third, we'll see, but employee of Stripe, you know, and she was, you know there with John and Patrick in their apartment, you kn…”
Scriven: True Glory Brands grew to nearly $18M revenue in four years
“And he ended up
over the course of four years, growing that business to nearly eighteen million dollars in revenue.”
Scriven: Saltbox partners deployed $180M with minimal balance sheet exposure
“Our real estate partners have deployed about a hundred and eighty billion or eighty billion, hundred and eighty million dollars of capital into the acquisition and development of some is only a very, very small percentage of that you know, fractional percentag…”