Alex Tew

5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 26, 2025 by Alex Tew · across every show →

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May 26, 2025
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Tew: Calm raised over $400k from 12 angels after 100+ meetings
“I think in, in the end we raised from about 12, 12 people and they were all individual angels. The biggest concern people had was, how is this going to be a business? You know, you're going to build a business around Calm. You're going to bring meditation. Lik…”
Alex Tew May 26, 2025 ▶ 45:34 Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
May 26, 2025 positive
Insight
Tew: Press attention drove the Million Dollar Homepage's viral loop
“Every piece of press was making it more valuable. I remember one of the early interviews I did was on the BBC breakfast show. So this is like Good Morning America, right? But in the UK. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm sitting on the couch and they're like, you know, why i…”
Alex Tew May 26, 2025 ▶ 17:22 Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
May 26, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tew: 'Do Nothing for Two Minutes' gained 2M visitors in a week
“We just, we built it one afternoon and tweeted about it, and it just went viral. And within a week, had about two million visitors.”
Alex Tew May 26, 2025 ▶ 37:49 Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
May 26, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tew: Calm raised prices from $10 to $60, boosting net revenue
“So, you know, the very first subscription we had was 10 dollars a year, and then I think in 2015 we made it 40, then it was 50, and then 60. And each time the conversion rate would be lower, but the net of it would be that we would make more money, you would h…”
Alex Tew May 26, 2025 ▶ 1:03:21 Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
May 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Calm hit its first $1 million month in January 2017
“She helped do our first successful user acquisition, and it was in, I think, January, 2017, we had our first million dollar month, and it's because we had cracked the UA code.”
Alex Tew May 26, 2025 ▶ 1:01:27 Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
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