Shazi Visram

22 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 20, 2020 by Shazi Visram · across every show →

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Jan 20, 2020
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Visram's parents bought an Alabama motel with $100k in savings
“I think it was 300,000 dollars. I think they had saved up a 100,000 dollars after working in Canada for seven years, and I think they put that down, and I think they bought it for 300 K.”
Shazi Visram Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 4:42 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
Jan 20, 2020
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Visram's polling showed over 70% of parents disliked jarred baby food
“I did a little polling, you know and this was, I think, 230 parents. More than 70% of them didn't like the taste of jarred baby food. Of the, of that 70%, 12% had made their own homemade, or tried to. Of that 12%, I think it was only like four percent continue…”
Shazi Visram Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 19:56 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
Jan 20, 2020
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Founders initially piped Happy Baby food batches manually using pastry bags
“So, like, Jessica and I would share a room at the Days Inn Danvers, which was near the facility, and we would literally go and, like, make the baby food in the plant, in their plant and we initially used, like, a pastry baster, pastry bag type of thing to fill…”
Shazi Visram Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 37:20 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
Jan 20, 2020
Disclosure
Visram built Happy Family without ever taking institutional venture capital
“I never, so I never took a penny from any institutional shareholders.”
Shazi Visram Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 53:04 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
Jan 20, 2020
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Visram: Happy Family hit a $10 million revenue month in May 2012
“I remember the last one was May of 12, I think we had a ten million dollar month”
Shazi Visram Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 1:06:16 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
Jan 20, 2020 negative
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A VC group demanded 70% equity for a $500,000 seed check
“It was it was 70%. They would own 70%, have every blocking right, every, every, every right to”
Shazi Visram Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 29:04 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
Jan 20, 2020
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Visram: I cold-called Honest Tea founder Seth Goldman
“Like, I cold called Seth Goldman.”
Shazi Visram Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 22:13 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
Jan 20, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Visram leveraged an Amex campaign email to raise $8M in weeks
“And all I had to do was take that email from Amex and email it around, and I raised eight million dollars in three weeks.”
Shazi Visram Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 56:16 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
Jan 20, 2020
Assertion Supported
Happy Family generated over $200M in revenue when Visram stepped down
“By the way, when she left the company in 2018, it was doing more than two hundred million dollars in revenue.”
Guy Raz Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 1:08:01 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
Jul 4, 2022
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Visram: Happy Family Reached a $10M Sales Month in May 2012
“I remember the last one was, like, May of 12, I think we had a ten million dollar month”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 1:06:09 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jul 4, 2022 positive
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Visram: Happy Family raised $8M in three weeks using an Amex email
“And all I had to do was take that email from Amex and email it around, and I raised eight million dollars in three weeks.”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 56:21 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jul 4, 2022
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Visram: Parents bought Alabama motel for $300,000 with $100,000 down
“I think it was 300,000 dollars. I think they had saved up a 100,000 dollars after working in Canada for seven years, and I think they put that down, and I think they bought it for 300 K.”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 5:32 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jul 4, 2022
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Visram: Happy Baby founders hand-filled initial product runs with pastry bags
“Jessica and I would share a room at the Days Inn Danvers, which was near the facility, and we would literally go and, like, make the baby food in the plant, in their plant and we initially used, like, a pastry baster, pastry bag type of thing to fill.”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 37:22 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jul 4, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Raz: Happy Family generated over $250M in annual revenue by 2018
“When she left the company in 2018, it was doing more than two hundred and fifty million dollars in revenue a year.”
Guy Raz Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 1:07:47 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jul 4, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Visram: Happy Family never took a penny of institutional capital
“I never, so I never took a penny from any institutional shareholders.”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 53:13 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jul 4, 2022 negative
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Visram: Early Survey Found Over 70% of Parents Disliked Jarred Baby Food
“I did a little polling, you know and this was, I think, 230 parents. More than 70% of them didn't like the taste of jarred baby food. Of the, of that 70%, 12% had made their own homemade, or tried to. Of that 12%, I think it was only like four percent continue…”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 20:03 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jul 4, 2022 negative
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Visram: Early VC offered $500K seed for 70% of Happy Baby
“It was it was 70%. They would own 70%, have every blocking right, every, every, every right to, you know, and I was ready to sign on”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 28:59 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jul 4, 2022 negative
Opinion
Visram: Starting Infants on Processed Foods Drives Lifelong Diet-Related Illness
“If we're starting ourselves off on processed foods, and then we're hooked on processed foods, and then we eat the standard American diet, then we get sick. And we get sick because we don't have this, like, health blueprint that could be based on a more natural…”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 19:29 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jul 4, 2022
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Visram: Happy Family raised $550K seed round across 36 angel investors
“I think it was 36 people for 550,000 dollars, and Seth Goldman of Honesty was 2500 dollars.”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 30:58 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jul 4, 2022
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Visram: Father died a millionaire thanks to his seed investment
“He died a millionaire because of their investment in Happy Baby.”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 1:06:44 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jun 18, 2026
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Visram: Happy Family Launched With at Least 1,000 Product Demos
“We launched with, I mean, must be at least, like, a thousand demos.”
Shazi Visram Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 43:16 Advice Line with Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics
Jun 18, 2026
Insight
Visram: Retailers use private label for proven products, not category creation
“Anybody who has a private label brand or any retailer they're typically, you know, private label is typically A mass manufactured version of something they know that already sells well.”
Shazi Visram Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 23:28 Advice Line with Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics
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