Nancy Twine
30 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 10, 2020 by Nancy Twine · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Aug 10, 2020 neutral
The Textured Hair Market Was Not Established During Twine's Youth
“And the market for textured hair wasn't really established back then. So I found myself struggling with the products that were available, and either needing to supplement them with other ingredients, or just create my own products from scratch.”
Aug 10, 2020
Twine Sold Homemade 'Clueless' Feather Pens in Middle School
“In middle school, this is when the movie Clueless came out, and those cool, like, feather pins were so popular, but no one, like, knew where they could get them, because Etsy wasn't around, and I went to Michael's, my local craft store, and got ribbon, pens, a…”
Aug 10, 2020
Aug 10, 2020
Aug 10, 2020
Twine Kept Briogeo Secret From Her Goldman Sachs Team
“No one in my immediate team knew that I was working on this project. I had a couple of friends at Goldman that I confided in, but only a couple that I knew would not say anything, because I was serious about my work, and I didn't want to compromise that, and I…”
Aug 10, 2020 neutral
Aug 10, 2020 neutral
Aug 10, 2020
Twine's Goal to Avoid Layoffs Led to Exploitation at Goldman Sachs
“My goal of making myself indispensable to protect my career during a tumultuous time probably put me in the position of being taken advantage of at times. There were, I'm sure, some of my classmates who would never come in on a Sunday night randomly because th…”
Aug 10, 2020 bullish
Aug 10, 2020
Aug 10, 2020
Twine Bootstrapped Briogeo With $25,000 Before Seeking Outside Capital
“So by that point, the most money I spent was on the business plan, which was about 5000. Some of the initial concepts for the packaging, which was, you know, north of 10 K. Yeah. And then you factor in everything else. I was probably close to 25 K.”
Aug 10, 2020
Aug 10, 2020
Briogeo Secured Early Press via Face-to-Face Editor Desk Visits
“And because I was in New York, I asked them if they could set me up with desk side appointments where I would actually meet the editor and be able to have a face-to-face connection. And so I was able to create relationships with editors at a dozen of publicati…”
Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023 positive
Twine used diverse imagery at Cosmoprof to avoid ethnic aisle pigeonholing
“You know, I figured that people would, which is why when I designed my booth, I was very intentional about having hair model imagery at my booth that really displayed the diversity of our intended consumer. So I think when people saw the breadth of ethnicities…”
Dec 4, 2023 negative
Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023 neutral
Nancy Twine: Brother refused to let her join his venture
“While I was at Goldman, I was seeing a therapist, and prior to my mom's passing, I was even thinking about, you know, what life beyond Goldman looked like, and she encouraged me to see if I could join my brother in his entrepreneurial ventures, and he said, yo…”
Dec 4, 2023 positive
Sephora agreed to test Briogeo in February 2014 after category expansion shift
“And then in February of 2014, I received an email that changed my life. I had sent the merchant buyer January's press summary, and a couple of weeks later, she responded and said, Nancy, it's so great to hear from you. The stars must have been aligned because …”
Dec 4, 2023 negative
Twine: Market for textured hair was not established when growing up
“The market for textured hair wasn't really established back then. So I found myself struggling with the products that were available, and either needing to supplement them with other ingredients, or just create my own products from scratch.”
Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023 positive
Dec 4, 2023 neutral
Nancy Twine used public accountability with friends to commit to entrepreneurship
“I told myself that I was gonna tell all of my friends about what it is I wanted to do, because I knew if I went and told everyone that I wanted to start a clean, natural hair care product line, that they would ask me about it every time we went out, and I didn…”
Dec 4, 2023 neutral
Twine spent roughly $15,000 to debut Briogeo at Cosmoprof Las Vegas
“Cost about 10,000 dollars for that weekend.
[3004] Guy Raz: And then that was just for the space.
[3005] Guy Raz: You had to like...
[3007] Guy Raz: Bring your stuff with you and like a signage and, right?
[3010] Nancy Twine: Yeah.
[3011] Nancy Twine: There wa…”
Dec 4, 2023
Nancy Twine: Angel Backer Phil Loaned Briogeo $150K to Scale Inventory
“So I reached out to Phil, put together a little deck of how I would use the funds to basically scale the growth of the business, which he was incentivized to do given his equity position. He felt like it was a good business case. I had, you know, POs to point …”
Dec 4, 2023
Twine bootstrapped Briogeo with $25,000 before seeking outside capital
“So by that point, the most money I spent was on the business plan, which was about 5000. Some of the initial concepts for the packaging, which was, you know, north of 10 K. And then you factor in everything else. I was probably close to 25 K.”
Dec 4, 2023 positive