Mariam Naficy
17 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 4, 2018 by Mariam Naficy · across every show →
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Jun 4, 2018
Naficy: Began selling bonds on Goldman Sachs trading floor at age 20
“So I was 20, and I was eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the office, and I was actually selling, I had a desk on the bond trading floor, and I was selling bonds as well as doing, working with clients. So before I could actually drink, I was selling bonds.…”
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Jun 4, 2018 bullish
Naficy: Stationery retail is inherently viral with strong unit economics
“So the idea was focused around stationery retail, and it had fantastic economics associated with it, good margins, it was an inherently viral product, because your name is on the back of the card, your company name, but the shopping experience offline was pret…”
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Naficy: Frequent movers and third-culture kids remain perpetual outsider observers
“If you're like me, and you're, you move around a lot, and you're of mixed cultures, you're never really going to feel like you belong to one place or one culture, right? You're always going to feel a little bit like the outsider who's traveling through time an…”
Jun 4, 2018 neutral
Jun 4, 2018 negative
Naficy: Initially aimed to build Minted without venture capital
“On the other hand, I was a little bit, honestly, a little bit risk-averse, and I thought that I did not want to raise venture capital again because I Had had some bumpy experiences in the first go round. So I thought I need to find a business model to apply th…”
Jun 4, 2018 bullish
Jun 4, 2018 positive
Naficy: Minted launched holiday cards against investor advice and oversold
“We actually decided to move into the holiday cards business against the advice of all of our investors who probably rightly said you should focus on what you started, which was wedding. We decided to ignore the advice, launch into holiday cards, and we were, w…”
Jun 4, 2018
Jun 4, 2018 positive
Naficy: Minted went 100% crowdsourced after brand stationery failed to sell
“The only thing that sold was the crowdsourced product, and not what we spent the entire year launching, which was all the stationary brands. We actually made a hard cut over, and by Christmas of that year, we went 100% crowdsourcing.”
Jun 4, 2018 negative
Naficy: Competitor acquired Minted's key printer two weeks before holiday peak
“The first week of October, my cell phone rings at about five o'clock. It's the CEO of a much, much larger competitor. And they basically say, we want you to hear the news from us. We have bought this printing company of yours that, that you use You know, this …”
Jun 4, 2018 negative
Naficy: Competitor acquired supplier to force a buyout of Minted
“So I went in for the meeting, and after a little bit of chatter he said, we'd like to buy you. We'd like to buy your business. And I realized in that moment that that whole thing had been constructed to basically force us to sell our business.”