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Guayakí reached $100 million in revenue without Costco, Walmart, or Amazon
“We got to a hundred million without Costco, Walmart, Amazon, any of those big retailers that are usually a big part of it.”
Walmart's $3.3B Jet acquisition was the largest US e-commerce startup buyout
“It was the highest anyone had ever paid to acquire an e-commerce startup in the US at that point.”
Walmart and Bed Bath & Beyond picked up Scrub Daddy post-Shark Tank
“And the Bed Bath & Beyond person that wouldn't talk to us before called us, and Walmart called us, and Lori was really gracious,
and, you know, she joined a bunch of the calls and brought star power, and they were, like, blown away and instantly took the produ…”
Walker: Sweet Paws by Five Dot Post will launch in every Petco
“We won three golden tickets at Walmart's open call, and in a few weeks, we're gonna be launched at every Petco nationwide, so.”
Raz: Walmart acquired Bonobos for roughly $300 million in 2017
“And then in 2017, the brand was acquired by Walmart for around three hundred million dollars.”
Freshpet Has Deployed Over 30,000 Branded Refrigerators in Retail Stores
“If I have one problem, I've got 25, or today, over 30,000 problems. Out there across the market, the number of fridges that we have.”
Szaky: Four retailers control the vast majority of the US fertilizer market
“And when I looked at the, at who controls the fertilizer market, it's only four retailers control the vast majority of it, which in the U.S. Is Home Depot, Lowe's, Menards, and Walmart.”
Bonobos sold to Walmart for $300 million in 2017
“We sold the company for three hundred million dollars”
Garza: Siete Foods is in over 16,000 retailers including Costco and Target
“So we're now in A little over 16,000 retailers were in places like Kroger and Costco and Target and Walmart”
Szaky: 20oz soda bottles share dimensions enabling mixed-brand packaging
“So the heights are the same, diameter is the same, the tread on the cap is the same. So you could do effectively mass production of mixed-use soda bottles, and that way the cases all look the same, everything was moving out, it worked nicely on the shelf”