Dick Dreissigacker

6 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 27, 2024 by Dick Dreissigacker · across every show →

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May 27, 2024 positive
Insight
Concept2 Priced Early Products Based on Future Manufacturing Costs at Scale
“We tried to price it at what we thought we could eventually make it for. So we were projecting ahead that we could, you know, eventually get to the point where it was more profitable. And, you know, we use that philosophy all the time with other products now, …”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 27:18 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Concept2 Chose Direct Sales Over Giving Retailers 40 Percent Margins
“I mean, I think when we first started out, you know, stores or retailers were demanding very large margins, you know, they had to have a We didn't want to raise our price so that we could give them a 40% margin.”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 41:19 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024 positive
Insight
Concept2 Built Its Most Successful Products to Serve the Founders' Needs
“Most of the products that we've worked on and been successful with are products that That we want to use ourselves, you know, and the theory is that if we, you know, like the idea of having some way to train specifically for rowing without having to get to the…”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 28:36 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024 positive
Insight
Reducing Oar Blade Weight Determines Competitive Rowing Race Outcomes
“First, when you're rowing at a high stroke rate, you're having to move, swing this, rotate this oar back and forth. Through this wide arc, and because there's weight, particularly the weight out at the end where the blade is, it takes effort to accelerate that…”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 18:07 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
North Face Paid the Dreissigackers 35 Cents an Hour in Backpack Royalties
“They did actually produce it for a while, and they licensed some of the components that we were getting royalties from them... We figured the royalties, when all was said, amounted to about 35 cents an hour for our work.”
Peter Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 11:59 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024
Disclosure
Concept2 Co-Founders Chose Their Rural Location Before Their Business Plan
“We had a clearer vision of the place that we wanted to move to live, to do this business than we had of what the business was going to be.”
Peter Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 19:59 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
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