Marc Lore
45 statements across 7 episodes · 17 bullish · 9 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 21, 2019 by Andy Dunn · said 38 times in 6 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 13 mentions in 1 episode
2022 12 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2020 4 mentions in 1 episode
2019 8 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Marc Lore, oldest first
Jan 21, 2019 positive
May 17, 2021 positive
May 17, 2021 positive
Lore: Customer love and retention matter more early than unit economics
“It's the idea that as long as customers love the service, and they're repeating, and they give you good marks, that you had something. You had something that was valuable. You had a brand, and there was lots of ways to solve the economics, is what we thought a…”
May 17, 2021 neutral
Marc Lore: Early competitive drive came from seeking father's love through achievement
“My dad, you know, was not completely present, and the only way to get my dad's attention was to do something extraordinary. So it's sort of programming as a young kid, like, to associate doing big things with feeling loved, basically. I didn't realize that gro…”
May 17, 2021 positive
Lore: Dimensional shipping makes basket-building incremental margin highly profitable
“The way shipping works is if you're shipping a box of diapers to someone and you have empty space in that box, the marginal cost to ship the next thing you put in the box is very, very small, very low. Like it might be, you put something that weighs a pound in…”
May 17, 2021
Lore: Diapers.com hit $11M in revenue with only three employees
“At eleven million in sales, it was basically just me and Vinny, and we hired another woman to, like, help us with customer care, and some of the fulfillment, but we got up to eleven million in sales with two people, three people, basically.”
May 17, 2021 negative
May 17, 2021 neutral
May 17, 2021 neutral
May 17, 2021 negative
May 17, 2021 neutral
May 26, 2022 positive
Sep 22, 2022 bullish
Lore: AI-driven text commerce will act like a best friend recommending products
“Using artificial intelligence and texting, I think people would be able to, in the future, just text what they want, and the system would know you as well as your best friend or family member, and be able to recommend precisely what you want, and either using …”
Sep 22, 2022 bullish
Sep 22, 2022 bearish
Sep 22, 2022 neutral
Sep 22, 2022 neutral
Sep 22, 2022 bullish
Lore: Wonder built 20 mobile restaurant chains that cook at customer doors
“Well, we've built now 20 restaurant chains across all different cuisines, and we put it on a mobile platform so that the restaurant actually comes to you, cooks right outside your door very fast in a high-speed convection oven, and brings the food piping hot t…”
Sep 22, 2022 positive
Sep 22, 2022 positive
Jan 15, 2024 positive
Dec 26, 2024 neutral
Lore: Price for scale and take zero margin to expand market
“I'm always Thinking about scale and working backwards, and I would say, you know, at sort of ten million units, what's your cost, ah, of the display and the packaging, you know, like, and then figure out what the retail price would be off the back of that, and…”
Dec 26, 2024 negative
Lore and co-founder didn't celebrate selling Diapers.com to Amazon
“We had a big vision for what we wanted to accomplish, and it was cut short. So, yeah, it was, I mean, you would think after a sale like that, we made, obviously, a lot of money, me and my co-founder, but we said, do you want to celebrate? You want to go grab a…”
Dec 26, 2024
Lore: Entrepreneurial opportunity lies in low-probability, massive-upside bets
“Cause you know, corporations, they just tend to shy away from risk and low probability outcomes. And I sort of gravitate more toward Low probability outcome, but massive upside. And I think that's where the opportunity lies for an entrepreneur.”
Dec 26, 2024 bullish
Dec 26, 2024 neutral
Dec 26, 2024 positive
Dec 26, 2024 neutral
Lore: Founders must ignore sunk costs and pivot toward superior opportunities
“You have to have the mentality that you start off a startup, and you're sort of digging for silver, but you gotta be on the lookout for gold all the time, and you might just see gold, and when you see it, you gotta go for it, and it doesn't matter what egg on …”
Dec 26, 2024
Mar 30, 2026 positive
Jet.com paid identical salaries to all employees at the same organizational tier
“The transparency of salaries so everybody could see what everybody else was making. The fact that everybody in the company at the same level made exactly the same amount, you know, to really prevent unconscious bias from creeping in and things like that.”
Mar 30, 2026 negative
Mar 30, 2026
Mar 30, 2026
Mar 30, 2026 neutral
Mar 30, 2026 negative
Amazon explicitly threatened to price diapers at zero to force Quidsi sale
“They said, well, yeah, we're gonna take the price of diapers to zero, and we're gonna, you know, and they made some analogies to some other, used explicit language, and it was pretty scary stuff. I'll just leave it at that.”
Mar 30, 2026
Marc Lore invested his entire $390,000 life savings to launch The Pit
“I invested 390,000 of my own money into the company. And, you know, the investors, the angel investors said, we're not sure about this idea, but wait, I see here, Mark, you invested 390 grand. That's a lot of money. You know, you're not that old. Why 390 and w…”
Mar 30, 2026
Mar 30, 2026 positive
Founders should solve customer love first and unit economics later
“The learning, you know, just, and it still stands today, it's the idea that as long as customers love the service, and they're repeating, and they give you good marks, that you had something. You had something that was valuable. You had a brand, and there was …”
Mar 30, 2026 negative
Mar 30, 2026 positive
Founders only reach maximum execution when they cannot afford to lose
“It's only when you have your life on the line and you can't afford to lose can you find the sixth gear. And when you're in that sixth gear, at least for me, It's like a out-of-body experience. It is like you don't have time to worry, think, be anxious, just ha…”
Mar 30, 2026 negative
Amazon told Quidsi's team to keep competing against them post-acquisition
“Like, Amazon didn't even, when they brought us in, say, hey, we want you guys to run the mom, baby, parent category within Amazon. They said, you know what, just keep doing what you're doing. Just continue to keep competing with us.”
Mar 30, 2026
Lore's childhood baseball card hustle profited by assembling sorted sets
“Big part of the business was grunt work. We would buy cases of baseball cards that weren't sorted, and then we would basically sort them into full sets, and then sell the sets, and the sets were sold at a premium because somebody had to sort them.”
Mar 30, 2026
Diapers.com reached $11M in sales with only three total employees
“At eleven million in sales, it was basically just me and Vinny, and we hired another woman to, like, help us with customer care and some of the fulfillment. But we got up to eleven million in sales with two people, three people, basically.”
Mar 30, 2026 negative
VCs rejected Quidsi's $100M funding round because Amazon was targeting them
“We had only raised 50,000,055 million dollars up until that point, which was pretty modest amount of money raised compared to today's standards, but we went out and we needed another hundred million to keep all the websites going and to really blow it out. We …”
Mar 30, 2026 positive
Diapers.com profited by cross-shipping items in the empty space of diaper boxes
“But you could make money, because the way shipping works is, if you're shipping a box of diapers to someone, and you have empty space in that box, the marginal cost to ship the next thing you put in the box is very, very small, very low. Like, it might be, you…”