Harry's
also referred to as: harry's razors
includes Harry's Labs
26 statements across 5 episodes · 13 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jun 12, 2023 by Jeff Raider · said 79 times in 18 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Guy Raz (50), Jeff Raider (23), Philip Krim (2), Paul Hedrick (1), Michael Preysman (1), Andy Dunn (1), Anderson (Andy) Camp (1)
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2026 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2025 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
2024 19 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
2023 43 mentions in 1 episode
2021 3 mentions in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Harry's, oldest first
Jun 12, 2023
Jun 12, 2023 negative
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Equal co-founder equity is crucial for aligning long-term economic incentives
“I think that's actually been really important for us to like having the same economic incentives all the time, same ownership. Like it's just good, you know, equal partnership. That's I'm really glad we did that in retrospect.”
Jun 12, 2023
Harry's raised $100M in debt and equity to buy its German manufacturer
“And so we were able to get commitments for. Sixty five million dollars of equity. We then went to Germany to raise. Thirty five million dollars of debt, which was a whole different challenge to convince these, like, very conservative German bank lenders to len…”
Jun 12, 2023
Harry's initially explored partnering with private equity to acquire public competitor Edgewell
“I actually talked to a couple private equity firms about, because Edgewell was a public company, but a reasonably small public company, about trying to buy them
Take them private and fold it into our business.
That was actually how it started.
And we could nev…”
Jun 12, 2023 bullish
Expanding beyond shaving into all consumer packaged goods removed Harry's growth cap
“Even if we got to, you know, huge market shares everywhere, like there's going to be some cap on our growth and shave. And so if we thought about it, we thought, Hey, like, you know, if we could increase our addressable market, not just to kind of men's groomi…”
Jun 12, 2023
Harry's generated up to $10M in annualized revenue before buying its factory
“We went, you know, from a, you know you know, a sort of technology enabled startup You know, that was doing, I don't know what we were doing at the time, Jeff, you know, five or ten million dollars of revenue on an annualized basis to like a fully vertically i…”
Jun 12, 2023
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Jun 12, 2023
Jun 12, 2023 bullish
Harry's evolved its corporate vision from a single brand to a next-generation P&G
“The vision really evolved from, hey, we're gonna build, you know, a next generation Gillette or a next generation Old Spice, you know, from a Harry's brand standpoint to, hey, we're gonna build a next generation, you know, Procter & Gamble. Like, we wanna, we …”
Jun 12, 2023
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Harry's was the only vertically integrated direct-to-consumer shaving company
“I think we sort of at one point said, said we were kind of the only truly vertically integrated company in the shave industry and that we literally grind steel and make razor blades and deliver them to your door vis-a-vis our own kind of e-commerce platform.”
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Harry's achieved profitability and became EBITDA-positive during the COVID-19 pandemic
“And then our online business, you know, DTC, also started to grow in a significant way because people weren't going to stores, and so I think we actually, we also turned the business to profitability. We were EBITDA positive”
Jun 12, 2023
Razor blades require complex manufacturing unlike other commoditized consumer packaged goods
“Most consumer packaged goods are reasonably commoditized. There's probably a hundred manufacturers, you know, throughout the world that can make, or, you know, thousands that can make soap or, Hairstyling products or whatever. And razor blades, not so. There i…”
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Jun 12, 2023
Jun 12, 2023 neutral
Razor blade manufacturing complexity comes from high-velocity precision edge grinding
“The grinding process, Which is really where the secret sauce of razor blade manufacturing comes in. It's the actual grinding of this very thin steel to get that edge and get that shape is a very hard process to perfect, and to get billions of these things made…”
Aug 1, 2024 positive
Aug 1, 2024 positive
Raider: DTC allows brands to iterate products before scaling manufacturing
“That's where I think direct-to-consumer is so powerful. Because as opposed to just making, you know, millions of something and trying to assume that everyone's going to want it, what we can do is start on direct to consumer, start to sell to a few people, see …”
Aug 1, 2024
Raider: Harry's finances large retailer receivables using debt
“It's an issue we struggle with at Harry's. You know, we sit on a And have a bunch of receivables from large retailers, and the way that we pay for that is with debt financing, because people know at the end of the day that, like, their money good. Like, their …”
Apr 17, 2025 positive
May 19, 2025 neutral
Hedrick: Tecovas launched with 5,000 emails using Harry's tool
“I had seen their launch playbook, and they had created this, actually this open source email gathering tool that I think they had gathered like a 100,000 emails for before they launched, and so I found the code for it, And put Decovis on it. And, you know, tha…”
Jan 5, 2026 positive
Dubin: Startup competition is wonderful because it validates your market category
“The presence of competition pushes you to define yourself more specifically, and focuses you on the things that you want to do, and You know, definitely makes you work a little bit harder. So, you know, most people, when they first start a company, and then th…”