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Scott Tannen

12 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 11, 2024 by Scott Tannen · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Everything said about Scott Tannen, oldest first

Nov 11, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Tannen gave up 20% of Boll & Branch to raise $2M
“Reached out to, you know, the true definition of friends and family, and I needed about two million dollars. And I closed it in a week and a half... It costs us at least 15 to 20% of the business.”
Scott Tannen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 59:04 Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
Nov 11, 2024
Assertion Contradicted
Tannen: Candystand reached 20 to 30 million monthly visitors under Fun Tank
“I mean, we were doing 20 to thirty million people a month were coming to this website.”
Scott Tannen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 8:21 Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
Nov 11, 2024
Disclosure
Tannen: Leveraged home equity and $2M SBA loan for Stern ads
“I finally decided to take all of the equity out of my house and then some, and I got a two million dollar term loan from the Small Business Association.”
Scott Tannen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 52:21 Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Scott Tannen: Wall Street Journal article generated $500K in sales
“We wake up in the morning and I pull open our system and we had done over a 100,000 dollars in sales. And this is like 10 o'clock in the morning. And by two in the afternoon, we were completely out of inventory. By the time the day and the next couple days wer…”
Scott Tannen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 43:18 Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Insight
Scott Tannen: Early DTC brands won via customer acquisition arbitrage
“Warby Parker, Bonobos. Yes, they're making a product, but they're playing customer acquisition arbitrage. They are just trying to acquire a customer for a little bit less than they're making and scale that profitability. And they're playing in categories where…”
Scott Tannen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 14:28 Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
Nov 11, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boll & Branch accidentally ordered 10x shipping boxes due to extra zero
“We had placed an order for 10 times the number of boxes that we needed... There was literally an extra zero added at the end of the purchase order.”
Scott Tannen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 56:36 Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
Nov 11, 2024
Disclosure
Boll & Branch Committed to Full Traceability Without Prior Factory Experience
“And so that was the point where we said, forget, let's forget this conventional route. We've got to go the route of Full traceability from end to end. We'd never at that point had never walked or stepped foot in a textile factory, nor had Missy.”
Scott Tannen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 25:51 Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
Nov 11, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Tannen had $5M in personally guaranteed SBA debt by 2017
“At that point, I was already sitting with five million dollars in personally guaranteed debt from the SBA. So there was no ability to raise additional debt”
Scott Tannen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 1:00:50 Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
Nov 11, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tannen: Suppliers sold Chinese-grown cotton labeled as 'Egyptian cotton'
“I found that these Egyptian cotton sheets that they were selling me were woven in China. They just named a plant, a cotton plant in China, Egyptian cotton, so that they could call it that.”
Scott Tannen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 20:38 Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
Dec 11, 2025
Insight
Tannen: Educating Customers About New Categories Eats Into Profit Margins
“Education eats margins, right? That is like as clear as day education eats Martians. And when you're the first one to do it, you've got to bear the cost of that in terms of building a brand.”
Scott Tannen Dec 11, 2025 ▶ 20:52 Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
Dec 11, 2025 negative
Insight
Tannen: Taking Outside Capital Forces Founders to Prioritize Shareholder Return
“As soon as you take money from an investor, your number one goal moves from whatever it is today to providing a shareholder return. And there's an expectation from those shareholders that you're going to pick up the phone, you're going to talk to them, and you…”
Scott Tannen Dec 11, 2025 ▶ 9:50 Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
Dec 11, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Tannen Took Massive Personal Debt to Advertise on Howard Stern
“I took the most amount of debt I've ever had on anything in my life. Just to advertise on Howard Stern.”
Scott Tannen Dec 11, 2025 ▶ 41:17 Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
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