Gordon Segal
9 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 20, 2017 by Gordon Segal · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Feb 20, 2017
Gordon Segal failed to sell 50% of Crate & Barrel for $10,000
“And I spent six months running around to everyone I knew who had any wealth and offering them half the business for 10,000 dollars.
There was no such thing as venture capital in those days.
There was no such things as startups in those days.
Yeah.
And I litera…”
Feb 20, 2017 positive
Segal: Direct European importing enables significantly lower retail pricing for unique goods
“Obviously, the motivation of going into business was to find beautiful things for other young people, but if we could buy things from Europe directly and just mark them up normally as if you bought them domestically, not take a big margin, but take a short mar…”
Feb 20, 2017 positive
Nov 18, 2019
Nov 18, 2019 positive
Nov 18, 2019
Nov 18, 2019 positive
Crate & Barrel's core thesis: direct European sourcing with standard domestic markups
“Obviously, the motivation of going into business was to find beautiful things for other young people, but if we could buy things from Europe directly, and just mark them up normally as if you bought them domestically, not take a big margin, but take a short ma…”
Nov 18, 2019