Shan-Lyn Ma

12 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 11, 2021 by Shan-Lyn Ma · across every show →

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Mar 11, 2021 neutral
Insight
Shan-Lyn Ma: Product launches are either pushed out or demand-pulled
“I think, you know, in product development, there's almost two kinds of product launches. One is where you push a product out, and then you iterate based on feedback, and then the home store example is more of a example where it's pulled out of your hands by th…”
Shan-Lyn Ma Mar 11, 2021 ▶ 18:05 How I Built Resilience: Shan-Lyn Ma of Zola
Mar 11, 2021 neutral
Insight
Shan-Lyn Ma: Retailers use wedding registries to acquire lifelong home customers
“The reason why, you know, any normal retailer has a wedding registry is because they hope to then continue to serve that person with things as they move into their newlywed home, and as they can grow as a couple in their home, so that is a very classic strateg…”
Shan-Lyn Ma Mar 11, 2021 ▶ 16:53 How I Built Resilience: Shan-Lyn Ma of Zola
Mar 11, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Ma: Why she studies Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake's public earnings calls
“I do listen to Katrina's earnings calls because there's so few female CEO leaders who do them that to hear her do it, In a way that is both strong, but uniquely different to the way many men do it is, is a learning opportunity for me.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Mar 11, 2021 ▶ 25:27 How I Built Resilience: Shan-Lyn Ma of Zola
Mar 11, 2021
What-if
Ma: Zola could not have succeeded buying all registry inventory upfront
“And if we did have to buy all the inventory for the registry, because it's required such a broad assortment, I think it would have been very hard to make the business model work.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Mar 11, 2021 ▶ 7:19 How I Built Resilience: Shan-Lyn Ma of Zola
Apr 18, 2022
Disclosure
Ma and Nobu Nakaguchi quit their jobs before having a business idea
“It was nothing yet. We did not have any ideas yet. The idea was, let's quit our jobs first.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 25:10 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Apr 18, 2022
Disclosure
Ma overcomes professional anxiety by visualizing the team she represents
“So to this day, whenever I get nervous about something, what I do is I imagine the faces of the people that I'm representing on my team, and I It makes me feel so much better. Like I have a gang on my side.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 11:00 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Apr 18, 2022 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Ma: Gilt generated roughly $7M in revenue in its first year
“Yeah, when I started at Guild, it was probably less than 30 people in the business. It had not been live yet for a full year, so it was still the first year of business. I think that first year, the business did something like seven million in revenue.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 16:09 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Apr 18, 2022
Assertion Supported
Ma: Zola raised its Series A one week before product launch
“Yeah, it got us to launch, which was around four to six months, and we actually raised our Series A round the week before we launched.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 42:48 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Apr 18, 2022
Assertion Supported
Kevin Ryan provided Zola's $250k seed check and joined as co-founder
“Yeah, that first check was 250,000. So he was the first seed investor, but more importantly, he also joined us as a co-founder and chairman of the board, and so brought not just the cash, but also, you know, his experience and advice.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 41:55 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Apr 18, 2022
Disclosure
Ma funded early living expenses by juggling zero-interest credit cards
“I took a lot of zero interest credit cards out. I think I had a stack of zero interest credit cards. I also had you know, balance transfers that I would transfer from one card to the other, and I do not recommend this to anyone, but that was part of how I You …”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 36:16 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Apr 18, 2022 negative
Opinion
Ma: Wedding registries had not meaningfully changed since the 1960s
“The problem was that it hadn't changed in decades since the 19 sixties when they were first invented. It was like someone had taken a registry from the 19 sixties and just put it on the internet and hadn't touched it since.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 30:36 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Apr 18, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ma was prevented from working for months by severe car crash injuries
“I was very badly injured in, you know, eight broken ribs, fractured spine broken collarbone, injured lung, liver, bad shape, and was really not able to work for quite some time, for quite a few months after that.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 51:30 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
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