Tim Brown
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 10, 2019 by Tim Brown · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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Brown: Americans view wool as scratchy, so marketing must emphasize merino
“Well, first of all, I realized that wool to Americans meant hot and scratchy. So all of a sudden you actually had to talk about merino. It's a different shape. And it's a finer material and it's softer and then you also had to talk about not just the material,…”
Jun 10, 2019 neutral
Jun 10, 2019
Brown: Founding a business brings more sustained pressure than professional sports
“It's like when you start something, this thing embeds six inches in your brain, and you don't shut it off, and it's a voice that's there, 24 seven all the time, and you're constantly thinking about it, and I, you know, I retired from sport, and I, That, that h…”
Jun 10, 2019 positive
Zwillinger: Better to co-own a big business than solo-own a small one
“Doing it alone is really lonely, and I'd always been of the opinion that if I was gonna do a business, I wanted to do it with someone, cause I knew my shortcomings were substantial, and that I would much rather have a piece of something big than a lot of somet…”
Jun 10, 2019 neutral
Brown: A minimalist design alone cannot sufficiently differentiate a physical product
“I realized too, in the process of selling the shoes, the design story was one part of it.
I think it resonated with people, but it needed something more, both for me and for the product.
The product was okay, but it wasn't differentiated.”
Jun 10, 2019
Jun 10, 2019 positive
Brown: Allbirds precursor Kickstarter raised $120,000 in four days before being halted
“Ah, and then it went on the Kickstarter's homepage, and on their mailing list, where they send out sort of interesting projects, and, ah, it went to a hundred and, you know, 20,000 dollars in four days, and I had to stop it.”
Jun 10, 2019