Cynthia Tice
10 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 30, 2024 by Cynthia Tice · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Sep 30, 2024 neutral
Sep 30, 2024
Sep 30, 2024 neutral
Tice attributes Lily's success fifty-fifty to retail experience and timing
“I mean, I think, fifty-fifty. I think my experience was instrumental, but I think there was a big aspect of luck with regards to timing that I didn't really understand at the time. I took advantage of it, but I didn't, you know, I did not know that there would…”
Sep 30, 2024 neutral
Sep 30, 2024
Tice: Early Philadelphia grocery store was almost never profitable
“It was almost never truly profitable, but back in those days, I was single. I really didn't care about money. I truly didn't. I lived in a really small, not good apartment in a bad part of town, and I just really didn't care. I was on a mission, but the profit…”
Sep 30, 2024 neutral
Tice stepped aside because she couldn't manage Lily's rapid growth
“So it wasn't that I didn't want to do it as much as I knew that I wasn't capable of it. I mean, Lily's was a category disruptor, and it was growing beyond, you know, we, you know, it was, we hit the marketplace at the right time when there was this growing awa…”
Sep 30, 2024
Tice: 1989 Alar scare drove first-time shoppers to natural food stores
“What we saw was people that had never before come into a natural food store came in for the very first time, because apples were When you think about it, apple and apple juice and applesauce is like one of children's first foods. Right. So, you know, it, like …”
Sep 30, 2024
Tice: Founders must communicate desired post-acquisition roles to new partners
“And I really, really encourage any founder to spend some time developing your own thoughts and communicating that effectively to your next set of partners. You know, the old paradigm is that you have to sort of wipe out the old team, but that's an old paradigm…”
Sep 30, 2024