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Tristan Walker

19 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 30, 2019 by Tristan Walker · said 21 times in 17 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Sep 30, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Walker: Mother worked three jobs simultaneously while raising him in Queens
“So my mom worked three jobs, mainly New York City Housing Authority administrative assistant. She spent some time working for Time Warner Cable and she did some retail, all at the same time within seven days.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 4:19 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019
Disclosure
Walker: Walker & Company pitched 50 to 60 VC firms
“And we pitched, gosh, 50, 60 VCs.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 33:29 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Walker: Bevel tested 10 to 12 packaging prototypes for unboxing suction
“We went through, like, 10, 12 different prototypes of the amount of suction that, like, comes up when people lift the top box from the bottom. It matters. When folks kind of lift it up, and it takes that kind of two and a half seconds to lift up, and they see …”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 39:14 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Walker: Foursquare scaled from two to 150 employees and raised tens of millions
“What does it look like to go from two employees to a 150 to raise tens of millions of dollars, to build something uniquely authentic, it was an education that I wouldn't have gotten alone.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 15:55 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Walker: Ben Horowitz initially pushed for a hair extensions startup
“Well, in fact Ben really wanted me to do the hair extensions idea.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 25:32 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Walker: Stanford in 2008 Showed 24-Year-Olds Making Millions and Changing the World
“So, at Stanford, I got there, it was 2008, I was 24 years old and very quickly. I knew it was where I needed to be. Primarily because I saw the other 24 year olds not only making millions of dollars, but fundamentally changing the world.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 11:22 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019
Insight
Walker: Major brands avoided single-blade razors because patent protection had expired
“So this solution has existed for the past hundred years. Right? Just no one had the incentive to sell it because there was no more patent protection on it.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 23:48 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019 negative
Opinion
Walker: Mainstream magazines like GQ ignore Black men's skincare needs
“I still to this day do not know where to go, with the exception of Bevel Code, as a black man, to know what moisturizer to use for my face. GQ, Esquire, all that stuff. It does not exist.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 46:50 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019
Insight
Walker: Ideas that look bad create value because good ideas face overcrowding
“Usually what looks like good ideas are bad ideas. And usually it looks like bad ideas are good ideas. The problem with good ideas is that everybody tries to do them. Right. And as a result of it, there's so many people working on the same things. There's no va…”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 18:26 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Walker: Adopting a subscription model was strictly to secure venture funding
“Subscription in the beginning. Yeah, that was the thing that actually got me to get the funding that I needed, because a lot of these VCs were subscription, subscription, subscription.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 40:12 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019 negative
Opinion
Walker: Entrepreneur-in-Residence roles force founders to think inauthentically
“Being an entrepreneur in residence, it's interesting, because I've never met one who's enjoyed it. That's myself included. But it's spending a lot of time to think about things in an inauthentic way.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 17:31 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Walker: 80% of Black people suffer from shaving irritation and razor bumps
“I know that 80% of people who look like me, men or women, have this issue. I know 30% of people who don't look like me have this issue.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 22:19 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019 negative
Opinion
Walker: Launching products too quickly was his biggest mistake
“Now, my biggest mistake is launching each of those things too quickly.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 45:09 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019 negative
Opinion
Walker: I wish I hadn't raised any of our $39M in VC
“Raised thirty nine million dollars, and the story goes, and I tell a lot of entrepreneurs this, I wish I didn't raise a cent of it.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 43:45 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Sep 30, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Walker is the first Black CEO in Procter & Gamble's 180-year history
“Procter & Gamble's been around for a 180 years, and I'm the first black CEO in the company's history.”
Tristan Walker Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 55:39 Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Apr 16, 2020 positive
Opinion
Tristan Walker: Andy Grove's High Output Management is the best CEO guide
“It's probably only one business book that really helped me think about how to be a better, just CEO day to day. And it's High Output Management by Andy Grove. He's very good at distilling why you need quantitative And qualitative metrics in the assessment of y…”
Tristan Walker Apr 16, 2020 ▶ 14:26 How I Built Resilience: Live with David Neeleman and Tristan Walker
Apr 16, 2020 positive
Insight
Tristan Walker: Innovation requires physical activity and disconnecting from digital devices
“Innovation doesn't really happen sitting in a kitchen and hoping for the best. The way I think about it requires some physical activity, right? I walk around kind of the block around my house multiple times without any phones, without any music, and things may…”
Tristan Walker Apr 16, 2020 ▶ 12:34 How I Built Resilience: Live with David Neeleman and Tristan Walker
Apr 16, 2020 negative
Opinion
Tristan Walker: Top 1% leverage technology for productivity unlike the 99%
“Folks at the top are leveraging technology in ways to make them a hell of a lot more productive, right? While folks in the 99% are not.”
Tristan Walker Apr 16, 2020 ▶ 14:58 How I Built Resilience: Live with David Neeleman and Tristan Walker
Jul 22, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Walker: Walker & Company ran on 3-to-6-month cycles versus 2-year industry norms
“I think that was the thing that was differentiated in a CPG industry that operates on two year cycles. We operated on three to six month cycles.”
Tristan Walker Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 10:32 Live From HIBT Summit: Payal Kadakia, Tristan Walker, and Perry Chen on Innovation
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