Mei Xu

21 statements across 4 episodes · 6 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2017 by Mei Xu · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Mar 6, 2017 negative
Opinion
Xu: 1990s Department Store Home Goods Were Completely Disconnected from Fashion
“Furnitures were very ornate. It has a lot of very, you know, gilded finish. And then the plates are like Laura Ashley prints, you know, very small, grandma's wallpaper floral. And I'm just wondering, the person who is so confident walking on the street will go…”
Mei Xu Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 8:26 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Mar 6, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Xu: Chesapeake Bay Candle did nearly $500,000 in sales in four months
“It was almost half a million dollars of business we did in four months.”
Mei Xu Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 13:29 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Mar 6, 2017 positive
Opinion
Mei Xu: Uniformity in 1970s China Created Happiness by Eliminating Jealousy
“Life was very happy in a sense that you don't have to be jealous of each other. You don't have to be wanting things you could not have.”
Mei Xu Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 1:21 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Mar 6, 2017
Insight
Xu: Commercial candle engineering requires balancing five interacting physical components
“A candle is both a piece of art and a lot of science. It's Five things that are interacting with each other. It's the fragrance. It's the base, which is the wax. It's the color, the pigment. It's the wick. And finally, it's the vessel, which is the glass or a …”
Mei Xu Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 18:09 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Mar 6, 2017 positive
Insight
Xu: No amount of research proves an idea like launching to market
“There's no amount of research That can prove an idea. But there's one thing you can always do, which is to take your product to the market.”
Mei Xu Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 11:23 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Mar 6, 2017 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Xu: China Sold Rejected Export Fashion Near Bus Stations in Her Youth
“China at that time already started exporting fashion, and they would have those rejected fashion, and they put them on sale near the, you know, bus stations.”
Mei Xu Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 6:58 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Mar 6, 2017 positive
Insight
Xu: Consumers repeatedly buy candles to signal a clean, welcoming home
“Many people say the reason why they burn fragrance is the finishing touch to cleaning their home. When they want to finish and sense that the home is ready for their, you know, friends and family to come for entertaining, or when their husband and children com…”
Mei Xu Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 20:30 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Mar 6, 2017 positive
Insight
Xu: U.S. competitors drive year-round candle sales through fragrance, not patents
“My competitor in the U.S., they sell candles in the millions and probably the billions. And I asked myself, why do they buy it all year round? It's not because they have a patent. It's because of the fragrance.”
Mei Xu Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 16:55 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Mar 6, 2017
Disclosure
Mei Xu: Assigned to Guard Mineral Warehouse After 1989 Protests
“They assigned me, ah, to a northern city, very cold, not even a city, a suburb. My job for the whole year is going to be, ah, watching a warehouse for minerals that are going to be for export.”
Mei Xu Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 3:05 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Jun 17, 2019 negative
Opinion
Xu: 1990s department store home decor was disconnected from modern fashion
“And then I would always end in a home department, and it would always give me a lot of questions, because it would look like it's in the 19 twenties. Furnitures were very ornate. It has a lot of very, you know, gilded finish. And then the plates are like Laura…”
Mei Xu Jun 17, 2019 ▶ 8:49 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Jun 17, 2019
Insight
Xu: Design trends trickle down from fine art to home decor
“So it started from a very high level of art, and then it trickles down to fashion, and finally it goes to home.”
Mei Xu Jun 17, 2019 ▶ 17:08 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Jun 17, 2019 positive
Opinion
Xu: Uniform living conditions in 1970s China eliminated jealousy and fostered contentment
“When we grow up, there was absolutely nothing. Everyone wore the same thing. Everyone would be eating the same food. Everyone had the same small apartment. Life was very happy in the sense that you don't have to be jealous of each other. You don't have to be w…”
Mei Xu Jun 17, 2019 ▶ 1:48 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Jun 17, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mei Xu: Chesapeake Bay Candle generated nearly $500K in first 4 months
“We probably will take 50% margin on them, so it was almost half a million dollars of business we did in four months.”
Mei Xu Jun 17, 2019 ▶ 14:04 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Jun 17, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
White House invited Xu alongside Ford and Intel in 2012
“In 2012 I was creating jobs in the United States because of our factory and the President's office Took note, and he invited 13 of the biggest manufacturers, such as Ford, Intel and I was invited because I was a small business, and I was giving advice as to wh…”
Mei Xu Jun 17, 2019 ▶ 36:16 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Jun 17, 2019
Insight
Mei Xu: Market research cannot prove an idea until product launch
“There's no amount of research that can prove an idea. But there's one thing you can always do, which is to take your product to the market.”
Mei Xu Jun 17, 2019 ▶ 11:57 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Jun 17, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Xu: Chinese authorities assigned her to guard an export mineral warehouse
“They assigned me, ah, to a northern city, very cold, not even a city, a suburb. My job for the whole year is going to be, ah, watching a warehouse for minerals that are going to be for export.”
Mei Xu Jun 17, 2019 ▶ 3:39 Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Aug 7, 2025 negative
Insight
Mei Xu advises founders against working with their spouses
“It is very hard to work with your spouse in a business that is so intense, so I suggest you look elsewhere.”
Mei Xu Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 9:39 Advice Line with Mei Xu of Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme
Aug 7, 2025 positive
What-if
Mei Xu: Early Fundraising Would Have Provided Crucial Scaling Insights
“I did not do any fundraising when I was building my first business, and I feel it could have given me a very interesting sort of insight into how to scale.”
Mei Xu Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 39:40 Advice Line with Mei Xu of Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme
Aug 7, 2025
Insight
Mei Xu: Consumer startups must pursue omnichannel distribution rather than single-channel sales
“I don't think one can try only one channel these days. We really are in a, in an economy where you need to meet people where they shop and people shop everywhere. They shop on TikTok, they shop on Instagram, they shop in store, they like what they see in a hot…”
Mei Xu Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 26:38 Advice Line with Mei Xu of Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme
Aug 7, 2025
Assertion Supported
Guy Raz: Mei Xu sold Chesapeake Bay Candle to Newell for $75M
“You wound up starting a candle company, Chesapeake Bay Candle, and you actually sold that company for seventy five million dollars to Newell Brands, which also owns Yankee Candle.”
Guy Raz Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 1:08 Advice Line with Mei Xu of Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme
Jan 1, 2026 negative
Insight
Mei Xu: Static dolls cannot scale without interactive features
“Because just making a doll at some point, you know, there, if there's no interaction with people they get tired of it and you can't really expand on just a doll.”
Mei Xu Jan 1, 2026 ▶ 37:00 Advice Line: Tapping AI as a Resource for Your Business
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