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Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2)
- ▶ 41:36 Max Levchin Like Peloton revolutionized home workouts and Casper just completely rewrote the rules on mattress
Casper: Philip Krim
- ▶ 2:34 Guy Raz But when Philip Krim and his partners launched Casper mattresses in 2014, there were just a handful of these types of businesses. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:01 Philip Krim It's true also for Casper when we started it, uh, is just a, it's a negative cash conversion, which is a fancy way of saying customers give you the money to, to buy the goods before you have to put the money out.
- ▶ 20:24 Guy Raz Okay, so at some point, uh, while you were still working on the startup, I guess you were accepted into an accelerator program in, in New York, and it was at that program where you would eventually meet the guys who you would, who would…
- ▶ 33:52 Philip Krim we, we delivered, the four of us, uh, Neil, Luke, Gabe, and myself, delivered a bed to his apartment in Soho, and, you know, he slept on that for years, and ultimately led our seed round, and that's, he's the reason why Casper is in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:28 Philip Krim And so we, we went through dozens of different prototypes to get to the, the Casper mattress that we launched with.
- ▶ 41:25 Philip Krim And it turns out the story brought a lot of people into the website, and those people wanted to try Casper and support Casper, so they bought from us, and they were very vocal about the purchase, and we were just off to the races. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:33 Guy Raz So it's around 2015, and after a very successful launch of its first mattress, Casper is having to play defense because competitor mattress companies are springing up all over the place. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:40 Philip Krim Um, Target had taken a keen observation to what Casper was doing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:14 Philip Krim Um, since we started the company, since the five of us got together, it was always like, what's the next milestone for the business? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:48 Guy Raz I mean, they may be involved, but they, they're not involved in the day-to-day of Casper, right? 3 times in the scene