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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q And, um, Tell me a little bit about, about, you know, you as a, as a kid. I mean, did your parents speak to you in Korean? Was their culture, the culture of their birth country, um, something that they really was important for them to transmit to you growing up?
A Yes, so I still speak to them in Korean, even though my Korean has progressively gotten worse, but culturally, yeah, I mean, we were very much a Korean household, ate Korean food, a lot of their friends, therefore our childhood friends were Korean, and there was still a lot of sort of community, you know, amongst other Koreans who had immigrated around the same time in the Seattle area, so um, When I was young, we went back every summer, and we spent a good month to two months in Korea. I remember staying at my grandparents' house, and it just being so hot, and me hanging out with all my cousins. So, uh, Korean culture was still a big part of my upbringing.
AI assessment note: “Yes, so I still speak to them in Korean... culturally, yeah”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Did you think that maybe, you know, this could be the path that I want to take, like, in management and then corporate leadership eventually? Or already at that .20082009, were you thinking, I want to start my own thing one day?
A I was always very frustrated, because at that time, this was like, 2009, 2010, I saw the world changing very quickly around me. So, you know, Facebook had just started, and social media was really becoming a thing, and, you know, big companies, they just move slower. I think that's just a fact. And so, I didn't really feel like, you know, Mondelez or Kraft at that time was really moving as quickly as I, as I personally wanted to. But also, I think even in college, I kind of always had this entrepreneurial bug. Actually, in college, I remember with two other girlfriends, we tried to start a design studio. It was called Three Ps. And so I think that entrepreneurial energy was sort of always there, even, you know, in college.
AI assessment note: “even in college, I kind of always had this entrepreneurial bug.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Um, alright, so you've got, you know, the middle of 20 17, or I think September of 20 17, you're on Amazon. And how much did that into the gloss or those, those like hits on those websites affect sales? Did it, I mean, did it, did you start to see traction right away?
A Yeah, we did. I mean, I think within 90 days we had run out of our initial inventory, so, and I remember before launch we were talking about, like, how long do you think it's going to take us to sell through 10,000 units? Would it take us a year? Is it going to take us six months? And ended up taking us 90 days, so the traction was there, yeah, from early on pretty quickly, and I think we also benefited from the fact that the category Wasn't as saturated as it is today. I mean, today, if you go to Amazon and you search pimple patches, you have like pages and pages of search results. But when we launched in 2017, it wasn't like that. We were one of like a handful. So I think that also helped us, um, stand out a bit.
AI assessment note: “within 90 days we had run out of our initial inventory”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q I think it did, like, Uh, 700 targets, right? Now, here's the thing about Target, again, like, you have a product, and now there's awareness around this product. And if Target just puts you on the, on the shelves, people still have to discover it. Was that an issue for you? Or did you already have enough awareness where you could just send people to Target now to get it?
A I mean, the, the dilemma that I think the buyer had was they were intrigued, but, uh, we didn't have a lot of SKUs at the time, and then also she didn't know where to put us, um, and so what we decided together was they, they had this new beauty mini section, which kind of acts like a discovery cash wrap type of thing, and they were like, We have this new thing. It's doing really well. Can you do a mini SKU version of your Mighty Patch for it? And it'll be in around 708 hundred doors. So that's what we did. We created a special, a special SKU. I think we priced it at like seven dollars, and it was kind of a sampler. And I mean, yeah, the worry was, well, it's one thing to get in, and then it's another thing to get people to buy it. So I remember we had queued up some I mean, this was 2019, so we didn't, I mean, TikTok wasn't even a thing, but we had hired someone who had the foresight to tell us we should be on TikTok. So I remember we made a big TikTok push, Instagram push, just letting everyone know. I mean, every channel we had control over, we pushed them to target because we knew it had to be a success.
AI assessment note: “the worry was, well, it's one thing to get in, and then it's another”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Oh, she left, she left to go to business school, right?
A Right, and so I took her job, I basically took her job, and so that was sort of the first seed, like, okay, well, that could be a path for myself as well, and then having worked there, I mean, I enjoyed it, but there was, um, uh, an aspect of, well, I I feel like I could do so much more, and also there are other ways to, I think, positively impact the community or society. It doesn't have to be directly working for a charity or a non-profit, um, and I started realizing you could do things in business and really make more of a, I think, positive impact that way as well. So, so, so I got, I started thinking about it, uh, kind of earlier on, and then, you know, I started applying to business schools, and then, Uh, and then I ended up going to Columbia.
AI assessment note: “Right, and so I took her job”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q So Jew, did you, I mean, at what point did you feel like maybe Dwight was the person that you, you might want to work with? Did you think that?
A So this is where I feel like we were so lucky in many ways because it was not that I had this idea and it was looking for a co-founder. It really was a very organic discussion where like, oh gosh, like someone should do this. I think it's such a good idea. And I just remember Dwight saying like, hey, if you want to do it, I'll do it with you. And it turns out, so there's three of us, right? There's Andy, myself, and Dwight. It, it actually turned out that we have very complimentary experiences and skills. So, you know, I sort of had more of this, like, corporate marketing experience, and then Dwight is a technical engineer, and then Andy is a creative person, and now in retrospect, I'm like, oh, that's a really good kind of cross-section of skill sets, because we covered Big parts of the business just with the three of us. Luckily, I mean, it just happened very organically.
AI assessment note: “I just remember Dwight saying like, hey, if you want to do it, I'll do it with you.”
