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Bill Shufelt

11 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 18, 2024 by Bill Shufelt · across every show →

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Nov 18, 2024
Disclosure
Shufelt: Wall Street finance involved 150 to 200 boozy dinners annually
“In the finance world, especially at that time, it was very common to do three or four work dinners a week, and steakhouses, boozy dinners, and Inevitably, it was probably almost a 150 to 200 work dinners a year.”
Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 9:48 Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Nov 18, 2024 bullish
Insight
Shufelt: Non-Alcoholic Beer Unlocks New Occasions Instead of Cannibalizing Sales
“Non-alcoholic beer, I was telling them is something that, that people are still going to drink their beer or their cocktail, like one night a week when they go out to dinner or do something fun. But this is a beer. People are going to drink seven nights a week…”
Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 46:55 Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Nov 18, 2024
Disclosure
Shufelt bought his own beer off store shelves to trigger reorders
“There were definitely times where on Sunday, I would roll through a bunch of stores and clear out the shelf to make sure there were reorders the coming week.”
Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 53:25 Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Nov 18, 2024 negative
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Shufelt raised under 10% of target three months into seed fundraising
“And I found myself three months into those meetings and had less than 10% of what I was looking to do raised.”
Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 39:09 Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Nov 18, 2024
Disclosure
Rejection from contract brewers forced Athletic to build its own facility
“If no one wants to make this beer for us, I'm gonna eventually find the right person to team up with, and I'm gonna build it ourselves, or we're gonna actually build a brewery.”
Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 31:11 Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Nov 18, 2024
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Shufelt: Athletic Brewing Secured 300 Retail Commitments in Connecticut
“And over time, I built up 300 commitments in the state of Connecticut.”
Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 47:55 Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Nov 18, 2024 positive
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Shufelt: Athletic Brewing Raised Angel Round from 66 Individuals After 120 Meetings
“I ended up doing a 120 investor meetings. 66 individuals supported us in the angel round, and that group of investors has been some of our best ambassadors, our believers.”
Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 41:42 Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Nov 18, 2024
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Athletic Brewing doubled capacity in summer 2019 but outgrew it quickly
“So for that summer of 20 19, we brought in a wave of bigger tanks and doubled our capacity, and we outgrew that three months later, and so we're out of stock again after three months and doubling our capacity”
Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 54:37 Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Nov 18, 2024 positive
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Shufelt: Early surveys showed 55% would drink great non-alcoholic beer
“And I found typically with, like, 55% frequency, people would drink a great non-alcoholic beer if it existed.”
Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 20:07 Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Nov 18, 2024
Insight
Shufelt: Low foot-traffic sampling forces faster sales pitch iteration
“If only one or two people is approaching you every 20 or 30 minutes, and you have a bad interaction, or you don't really get your point across, or your pitch falls flat, you learn to iterate really quickly if you don't have many opportunities.”
Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 52:21 Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Nov 18, 2024 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2029
Shufelt: Non-alcoholic beer will account for over 50% of beer consumption
“In my head, I think it's going to be over 50% of beer.”
Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 1:00:56 Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
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