Quidsi
6 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 17, 2021 by Marc Lore · said 13 times in 2 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2026 7 mentions in 1 episode
2021 6 mentions in 1 episode
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May 17, 2021 negative
May 17, 2021 negative
Mar 30, 2026 negative
Amazon explicitly threatened to price diapers at zero to force Quidsi sale
“They said, well, yeah, we're gonna take the price of diapers to zero, and we're gonna, you know, and they made some analogies to some other, used explicit language, and it was pretty scary stuff. I'll just leave it at that.”
Mar 30, 2026 negative
Mar 30, 2026 negative
Amazon told Quidsi's team to keep competing against them post-acquisition
“Like, Amazon didn't even, when they brought us in, say, hey, we want you guys to run the mom, baby, parent category within Amazon. They said, you know what, just keep doing what you're doing. Just continue to keep competing with us.”
Mar 30, 2026 negative
VCs rejected Quidsi's $100M funding round because Amazon was targeting them
“We had only raised 50,000,055 million dollars up until that point, which was pretty modest amount of money raised compared to today's standards, but we went out and we needed another hundred million to keep all the websites going and to really blow it out. We …”