Tamara Mellon

7 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2025 by David Senra · said 128 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Jun 8, 2025
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Jimmy Choo launched with $150,000 in seed capital and sold for $1.2B
“Now, remember, this is a company that's going to sell for 1.2 billion dollars in about 15 years from where we're on the story. They start the company with just a hundred. Her dad puts up a 150,000 dollars. That's all they start with the company.”
David Senra Jun 8, 2025 ▶ 20:03 How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
Jun 8, 2025 positive
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Tamara Mellon advises founders to always retain majority ownership and control
“She says, I've learned to always retain majority ownership and control.”
David Senra Jun 8, 2025 ▶ 53:50 How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
Jun 8, 2025
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Jimmy Choo achieved $250,000 in first-year sales with just one employee
“Our sales for the first year were 250,000 dollars. And the shop cost us 15,000 and the only, there's only one employee other than Sandra and myself.”
David Senra Jun 8, 2025 ▶ 30:04 How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
Jun 8, 2025 positive
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Jimmy Choo's iconic Sex and the City placement was entirely free
“Manufacturers of everything pay fortunes for product placement in movies and TV. We got this huge call out entirely for free. Why? The show's creator said she put the reference in the script because she'd been in London and stopped by the store on Mottcombe St…”
David Senra Jun 8, 2025 ▶ 33:05 How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
Jun 8, 2025 positive
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Gifting celebrity stylists multiplies a brand's chances of securing organic endorsements
“And because these people work for multiple clients, contact with a single stylist gave us many more shots at scoring a wind.”
David Senra Jun 8, 2025 ▶ 31:38 How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
Jun 8, 2025 positive
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Jimmy Choo generated 2.9 million EBITDA with only nine employees
“Our EBITDA going in when the deal was completed was 2.9 million. So make it about three million a year. Okay. Which is a lot for a company with only nine employees.”
David Senra Jun 8, 2025 ▶ 40:09 How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
Jun 8, 2025
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Tamara Mellon's father scaled and sold Vidal Sassoon for $72 million
“He did a bunch of businesses that probably the business business biggest success was the fact that her dad had helped scale and build Vidal Sassoon. So they just sold right before they found Jimmy Choo, a few years before they sold found Jimmy Choo, he had jus…”
David Senra Jun 8, 2025 ▶ 18:18 How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
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