John Osher

14 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 16, 2026 by John Osher · across every show →

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Feb 16, 2026
Insight
Osher: Most successful founders experience 'entrepreneurial terror'
“And this is it's called entrepreneurial terror, and I think most successful ones included have gone through this at some point, because the buck completely stops with you.”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 20:45 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Osher: Offered $10M to buy back Spinbrush; P&G leveraged for $75M
“I said, I would, but I'm not willing to pay much money. I'll give you ten million dollars for the whole thing, but I'll close next week. You know, everything else was, they were always waiting six months, you know, and then there would be due diligence. I said…”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 55:00 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Osher: Arcade Basketball drove $6M in sales and $1.5M profit
“So our budget, our next year, we got this chance, and everyone bought arcade basketball, we did six million dollars, and made a million and a half dollar profit.”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 23:29 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026
Insight
Osher: Initiating a company sale yields one-tenth of buyer-initiated prices
“Because anytime you try to sell something, you get about one-tenth of what you get when they want to buy you.”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 45:32 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Osher: Spinbrush drove $21M profit on $44M revenue in first 8 months
“And in the first year, we did forty four million with a twenty one million dollar profit. ... It wasn't even a full year. It was probably closer to eight months. And as I said, we made a twenty one million dollar profit.”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 43:25 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Osher: Spinbrush kept its name after switching to an oscillating mechanism
“The name Spin Brush actually came when it was still spinning. We never changed the name because it was a good name.”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 35:27 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Raz: Osher produced Tony-winning musicals Jersey Boys and Hairspray
“By the way, over the years, John has had a pretty interesting side hustle, backing Broadway musicals. He's actually been listed as a producer on some pretty big hits, including at least two Tony winners for Best Musical, Jersey Boys and Hairspray.”
Guy Raz Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 59:45 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Osher: Plumbers outearned other trades in his Gurdjieff commune
“Even when I was a plumber in this Gurdjieff group, I was rich, you know, within the context of my life. I, you know, I had a house and a car and a wife, and I made much more money than everyone else in the group because I was in a business that you could charg…”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 13:02 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026
Insight
Osher: Set prices by market willingness to pay, not wholesale cost
“The reason I bring it up is it was a great lesson that I used for the rest of my whole business career, and that is that you set your price on what the market will pay, what's the optimum price for a market, as opposed to what you paid for it.”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 6:12 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026
Insight
Osher: Entrepreneurial confidence comes from small early wins
“It almost would seem as if I'm a courageous person because I'm so willing to open businesses and this and that, and it really does come back to the value of starting my first business at five years old and having businesses successful. All through high school,…”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 8:37 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026
Disclosure
Osher: Spinbrush targeted the manual toothbrush market, not high-end electrics
“We really never considered, or worried about, or competed with the high end, which was, some of them were 50 bucks, and we basically saw the manual market. That's where the numbers were.”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 31:35 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Osher: Spinbrush scrapped 400K defective units and raised $500K for redesign
“And we had 400,000 of them in our warehouse, and I had to make a decision. This is a consumable product, and this is potentially so big, and if I continue to sell this, it will die. And I went back to my partners in it, my investors, and I said, I'm gonna scra…”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 41:50 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Osher: Scale reduced novelty battery costs to 12 cents per unit
“The reality is, is that we ended up buying such large quantities of little motors at batteries and gears Where we're buying in the millions of batteries from EverReady alkaline batteries, where we're paying 12 cents a battery rather than 78 cents or 39 cents f…”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 30:26 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Feb 16, 2026 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Osher: Overhead baby toy arches didn't exist before his Rainbow Toy Bar
“Every, every baby in the world uses some form of this now, but back then it did not exist.”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 18:08 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
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