Sandra Oh Lin

11 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 5, 2020 by Sandra Oh Lin · across every show →

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Sep 5, 2020 bullish

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Sandra Oh Lin: Some families will permanently shift to homeschooling post-pandemic

“I imagine to a certain extent that some people will actually choose to continue to homeschool their children, so there actually may be a shift there.”

Sandra Oh Lin Sep 5, 2020 ▶ 16:10 How I Built Resilience: Sandra Oh Lin of KiwiCo

Sep 5, 2020 positive

Assertion Partly supported

KiwiCo shipped its second 10M crates in just 18 months

“So I think you had mentioned, Guy, kind of in the beginning that we shipped out over twenty million crates now. And so if you look at kind of the first ten million crates We hit that mark actually in January, 2019. And then in the next like 18 months or so, we…”

Sandra Oh Lin Sep 5, 2020 ▶ 5:26 How I Built Resilience: Sandra Oh Lin of KiwiCo

Sep 5, 2020 neutral

Insight

Lin: Product testing with children requires direct observation over verbal feedback

“Depending on the age of the kid, it's not so much that they're going to tell you what's going on. You actually have to observe what's going on.”

Sandra Oh Lin Sep 5, 2020 ▶ 9:13 How I Built Resilience: Sandra Oh Lin of KiwiCo

Sep 5, 2020

Disclosure

KiwiCo validated its market through living room focus groups and national surveys

“So early on, I was very, very interested in talking to consumers. So I did qualitative focus groups in my living room and my friend's living rooms also did surveys actually got thousands of responses across the U S because they also recognize that I live in a …”

Sandra Oh Lin Sep 5, 2020 ▶ 17:42 How I Built Resilience: Sandra Oh Lin of KiwiCo

Dec 25, 2023 positive

Disclosure

Lin: KiwiCo Raised Only Just Over $10M in Total Equity Financing

“We basically ended up in a position where we didn't have to raise any more money and so I think for a company like ours, it's pretty unusual to have only raised a little bit over ten million dollars in equity financing but we got to a place where we could be s…”

Sandra Oh Lin Dec 25, 2023 ▶ 43:19 KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin

Dec 25, 2023 positive

Disclosure

Oh Lin: KiwiCo aspires to become a household brand like Lego

“I think when I'm posed that question, I think more about kind of wanting to become a household brand. I really admire companies like a Lego, for example, and what they've been able to do with the brick.”

Sandra Oh Lin Dec 25, 2023 ▶ 49:55 KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin

Dec 25, 2023 neutral

Disclosure

Oh Lin: KiwiCo initially sourced all items domestically due to low volume

“In the beginning, we knew. That we did not have the volume to be able to go out to suppliers. And so we were literally sourcing each individual item and sourcing that domestically to start.”

Sandra Oh Lin Dec 25, 2023 ▶ 30:15 KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin

Dec 25, 2023

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sandra Oh Lin's family ran a mall kiosk selling troll dolls

“Later on, she was the one who started our little family business when I was in high school. We actually sold troll dolls in the mall at a kiosk.”

Sandra Oh Lin Dec 25, 2023 ▶ 4:27 KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin

Dec 25, 2023 neutral

Disclosure

Lin: Playdates Began as a Way to Amortize Craft Prep Time

“I started pulling together different materials and different ideas, and I found that it was taking quite a bit of time. And so I was like, okay, I need to amortize. My time, I started to invite my friends, their kids over for playdates, and they would make and…”

Sandra Oh Lin Dec 25, 2023 ▶ 15:01 KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin

Dec 25, 2023

Assertion Partly supported

Lin: eBay's fashion division was a $2 billion business

“Yeah, it was about a two billion dollar business and I was the general manager for the fashion business.”

Sandra Oh Lin Dec 25, 2023 ▶ 9:58 KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin

Dec 25, 2023

Assertion Supported

Oh Lin: KiwiCo's founding team included YouTube's first engineer and PayPal co-founder

“Ended up bringing on board a co-founder who was a bit more technical, had been in product management. And then I also brought on a technical co-founder, somebody who had been actually a founder of PayPal, was the first engineer at YouTube. And so at first ther…”

Sandra Oh Lin Dec 25, 2023 ▶ 21:37 KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin

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