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Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams

also referred to as: mitchell gold + bob williams home furnishings

10 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 28, 2022 by Mitchell Gold · said 14 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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2022 14 mentions in 1 episode

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Mar 28, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gold: Competitors Could Not Match 25-Year Frame Warranty
“Nobody else could offer a 25 year warranty on the frame because those type of wooden frames at the time, they became loose. Our frame would never become loose.”
Mitchell Gold Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 39:47 Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Mar 28, 2022 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Mitchell Gold: Annual revenue is somewhere near $300 million
“Somewhere near there. We're a private company. Can't say.”
Mitchell Gold Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 1:03:53 Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Mar 28, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Williams: Co-founders ended romantic relationship on New Year's Day post-9/11
“We broke up on New Year's Day after nine 11.”
Bob Williams Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 50:00 Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Mar 28, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gold: Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams reached $1,500 sales per square foot
“And in short order, we were doing 1500 dollars a square foot, which is unheard of in the furniture industry. The furniture industry on average at the time was about 240 dollars a square foot.”
Mitchell Gold Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 59:35 Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Mar 28, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Mitchell Gold: Company eliminated seasonal factory layoffs through flexible hours
“There's more business usually in the fall than in the spring in a furniture factory. So a lot of the factories would hire up in the fall, lay people off after Christmas. Hire up, lay people off. And in simple terms, we came up with this idea that rather than d…”
Mitchell Gold Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 56:02 Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Mar 28, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gold: Only one factory worker quit after his LGBTQ+ advocacy letter
“I was so nervous that the next day I would come in and we'd have half the factory quit, but it turned out only one person quit.”
Mitchell Gold Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 54:15 Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Mar 28, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Founders sold 5,000 chairs and 800 tables in debut pitch weekend
“We had basically, in that weekend, sold 5000 dining chairs and 800 tables.”
Mitchell Gold Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 28:15 Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Mar 28, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Mitchell Gold: Private equity holds majority ownership in the company
“They're the majority. We own a good piece of the minority.”
Mitchell Gold Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 1:02:38 Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Mar 28, 2022 positive
Insight
Gold: Building customer-requested products pre-secures sales before production
“And that's the best way when your customers are asking you, And they're engaged with you on the product that you're developing, then they're buying it. They're buying it before you even make it.”
Mitchell Gold Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 45:27 Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Mar 28, 2022 positive
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Gold: Cutting retail accounts from 72 to 48 grew business 48%
“Bob and I sat down, and we went through the 72 customers that we had, and we dropped it to 48, and we said, these 48 we're going to be able now to give better service to. I swear this number is true. In that year, our business increased 48%.”
Mitchell Gold Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 48:41 Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
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