Ooni

“Well, I think the first prototypes were like, 40 or 50 quid or something like that.”

“We didn't have to give up city jobs to make this happen, which I think is a very important thing when you look at kind of entrepreneurs generally. We were used to, whilst we did fine, like we had a really nice life on very little money before, so it wasn't tha…”

“We were both doing about three and a half days of working, and then spent the rest of the time doing other things, as well as spend time with our newborn.”

“I think maybe about 40% were from the US.”

“Yeah, it was a 50 grand grant to spend exclusively on IP.”

“And we learned that actually, the vast majority of our consumers, they already made pizza at home.”

“I mean, we never had a return.”

“When you search for UUNI, often it would auto-correct to uni, like university, or UNI, and so, yeah, there was that, and people didn't know how to say it”

“So because I knew I'm shipping this from Finland at the end of the manufacturing, I had a hard limit of 10 kilograms that the product would have to go under. And this has a bit of a funny kind of reason why there's three legs on an uni. The fourth leg would ha…”

“Yeah, we went from 13 and a half million in 2019 to 55 in 2020.”

“The Kickstarter raised 17,000 pounds, yeah, and This was the kind of funny part of it was that, okay, there was 92 ovens were sold through the campaign, but we sold another 200 on the back of the extra press that happened in the following month.”

“Well, in 2020, we were about 45, March 20 20. And then we're about 350 now.”

“Couldn't do it in Finland. You couldn't get the quality and the materials and the parts in any Western country, really, unless you paid a lot.”

“Maybe there is a connection here that has repeated itself over years and years and years in other industries, that there are These large machines, they used to be mainframes, and then there was the personal computer. Things happened in between there as well, b…”

“So we have a cap table. It's pretty clean. So Trina and I own most of it, and we have Options and share schemes for some of the exec team, and then few friends and family investors from the very, very early days of uni.”

“One of the coolest things, especially during the pandemic, we decided to do this mini campaign called Stars Stuck at Home. Everyone was stuck at home. It was quite a miserable time, and we reached out to people that we just thought were epic and connected to, …”

“Yeah, we had 14 containers, 14 forty-foot containers stuck on the ship.”

“And there's not actually any key brands that we're concerned about.”

“I think we did something like, in dollars, about 170,000 in the first Year of operating, which is compared to what we'd been working on previously.”