Andy Dunn
43 statements across 4 episodes · 7 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 21, 2019 by Andy Dunn · said 8 times in 6 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019
Dunn: The Bonobos board initially rejected his request for additional founder equity
“They said no at first. And, you know, said, hey, like, you need to work for the shares that you've got. And then, you know, ultimately I just wore them down, and I got some alternative perspectives from people in the venture capital backed company space, and s…”
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019 positive
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019 positive
Dunn: Bonobos' physical retail and wholesale channels ultimately funded e-commerce losses
“Our most profitable business became Nordstrom. And our second most profitable were our retail stores, and those two businesses' profits were funding losses from the e-commerce business, which is a wonderful paradox to the way that we conceived of the company.”
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019 negative
Dunn: Founding a business with friends destroys the friendship's emotional support
“Once you get into a business partnership with a friend, the friendship gets totally sublimated to the business partnership. So a lot of the stuff that you used to talk about or do, you don't have time to do because you've got to work on this little growing bab…”
Jan 21, 2019 positive
Dunn: Curved waistbands were a novel breakthrough in early menswear design
“And that was this genius insight that actually the way to do this is to make pants with a curved waistband, which would bring in the pant around to your waist in a way where the overall shape looks Looks great. And that hadn't really been done in a meaningful …”
Jan 21, 2019 positive
Jan 21, 2019
Dunn hid clinical depression while leading Bonobos through severe co-founder conflict
“It turns out I have a propensity clinically for depression, and so I got to the place where I kind of had to fake it at work that I was doing ok, but drag myself out of bed and come to the office and kind of put on a show.”
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019
Dunn: Zero-inventory clothing stores generate higher retail sales per square foot
“You create a clothing store that has no clothing. And that was the insight, which is the customer doesn't need it right away, and that flew in the face of everything everyone in retail told me from the traditional industry. Instant gratification. And it turns …”
Apr 4, 2022
Apr 4, 2022
Apr 4, 2022
Apr 4, 2022 negative
Apr 4, 2022
Apr 4, 2022
Bonobos was eight days away from missing payroll in early 2009
“We had enough cash in the bank, I thought, to make payroll, but then we had, I guess, promised a supplier through a letter of credit, and we were about Eight days away from not making payroll, which is not an inspiring moment for your employees.”
Apr 4, 2022 negative
Dunn hid his clinical depression while leading Bonobos through co-founder conflict
“I got depressed. So it turns out I have a propensity clinically for depression. And so I got to the place where I kind of had to fake it at work that I was doing okay, drag myself out of bed and come to the office and kind of put on a show.”
Apr 4, 2022 neutral
Apr 4, 2022
Apr 4, 2022 neutral
Apr 4, 2022 negative
Lead investor Joel Peterson walked away after Dunn sent a condescending email
“The second angel round that we raised. We raised it too high of a price, and actually, Joel was pretty upset about this. I, actually, I think I wrote the email to Joel that Was a condescending email in some regard around supporting the company, and it was the …”
Apr 4, 2022
Apr 4, 2022 neutral
Apr 4, 2022
May 26, 2022
May 26, 2022
May 26, 2022
May 26, 2022
May 26, 2022 neutral
May 26, 2022 positive
May 26, 2022
Being an employee is often harder than being a startup CEO
“And I have to say, it is such a profoundly humbling, meaningful, good, And challenging, sometimes maddening experience to realize that all these years you were, you know, woe is me, being a CEO is so hard, and it actually turns out that being an employee in a …”
May 26, 2022
Startup volatility often masks clinical bipolar mood swings in founders
“It's easy to explain away The mood swings you might experience as a person with bipolar disorder, if you're also an entrepreneur, as being due to the fact that you're an entrepreneur, when there's something else that you need to be dealing with as well, that i…”
Apr 17, 2025 bearish
Andy Dunn: DTC apparel is an impossible business model due to CAC
“I spent 13 years building something that I think in retrospect is an impossible business model, which is DTC apparel. Like, I don't actually think it works. Like, the math doesn't work on it, because it's too expensive to acquire, acquire customers, right?”
Apr 17, 2025 neutral
Apr 17, 2025 positive
Andy Dunn: Carraway scaled through 3,000 unpaid Instagram gifting partners
“I'm a, I'm an investor, angel investor in a brand called Carraway. It's pots and pans and kitchenware. And what he did that I thought that was so smart is he actually built an army of something like 3000 Instagram partners. It was just value exchange for free …”
Apr 17, 2025
Apr 17, 2025 negative