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Dave Gilboa

10 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 26, 2016 by Neil Blumenthal · said 12 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Dec 26, 2016
Assertion Supported
Warby Parker name originates from two Jack Kerouac characters
“Two early Jack Kerouac characters that Dave actually discovered when he went to the New York Public Library exhibit on Kerouac, and two of the characters were Warby Pepper and Zag Parker.”
Neil Blumenthal Dec 26, 2016 ▶ 10:44 Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal
Dec 26, 2016
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Founders bootstrapped Warby Parker with $120,000 and took no early salary
“We invested a 120,000 dollars between the four of us to get the business off the ground, and, you know, we worked for a year and a half without paying ourselves a salary.”
Dave Gilboa Dec 26, 2016 ▶ 12:14 Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal
Dec 26, 2016
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Gilboa: Warby Parker took upwards of nine months to clear launch waitlist
“And for a lot of those customers, it took us upwards of nine months to get through the wait list.”
Dave Gilboa Dec 26, 2016 ▶ 19:32 Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal
Dec 26, 2016 bullish
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Gilboa: Warby Parker reached a 20,000-customer waitlist within four weeks
“And so we place an emergency call to our developer, and miraculously was able to build in this waitlist functionality on the fly, and within a four-week period, we'd sold out of Our best-selling styles. We had a wait list of 20,000 customers.”
Dave Gilboa Dec 26, 2016 ▶ 18:13 Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal
Dec 26, 2016
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Warby Parker founders tested over 2,000 names before launching
“I think we still have our spreadsheet of over 2000 names that we tested on our very patient friends.”
Dave Gilboa Dec 26, 2016 ▶ 10:37 Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal
Feb 19, 2018
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Warby Parker Amassed 20,000-Customer Waitlist in Four Weeks
“Within a four-week period, we'd sold out of Our best-selling styles. We had a wait list of 20,000 customers.”
Dave Gilboa Feb 19, 2018 ▶ 18:53 Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal (2016)
Feb 19, 2018
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Warby Parker Took Nine Months to Clear Initial Waitlist
“For a lot of those customers, it took us upwards of nine months to get through the wait list.”
Dave Gilboa Feb 19, 2018 ▶ 20:11 Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal (2016)
Feb 19, 2018
Assertion Supported
Gilboa: Warby Parker was eliminated in Wharton's business plan semifinals
“We entered the Wharton Business Plan Competition. And we got eliminated in the semifinal round.”
Dave Gilboa Feb 19, 2018 ▶ 6:44 Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal (2016)
Dec 14, 2023 positive
Insight
Gilboa: Social missions benefit talent recruitment more than direct consumer sales
“The biggest impact is in our ability to attract and retain some of the most talented, passionate, Driven people in the world who want to work for a mission driven organization. And so that's where we tend to see kind of the biggest benefit from a business stan…”
Dave Gilboa Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 9:29 Framing the future of eyecare with Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker
Dec 14, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Gilboa: Warby Parker executives report to only one co-CEO
“So every department, every executive only reports into one of us. And that allows us to kind of spend more time in those parts of the business.”
Dave Gilboa Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 2:33 Framing the future of eyecare with Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker
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