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Garland: Ooni is not concerned about competitor brands in portable pizza ovens
“And there's not actually any key brands that we're concerned about.”
Garland: Founders pitching business must emphasize visual imagery and presentation design
“So it was a good lesson for anyone pitching is go hard on the imagery.”
Garland: The vast majority of early Ooni customers already made homemade pizza
“And we learned that actually, the vast majority of our consumers, they already made pizza at home.”
Garland: Ooni expanded its team from 45 in 2020 to roughly 350
“Well, in 2020, we were about 45, March 20 20. And then we're about 350 now.”
Garland: Ooni secured a £50,000 grant dedicated exclusively to IP protection
“Yeah, it was a 50 grand grant to spend exclusively on IP.”
Garland: Ooni gifted pizza ovens to Beyoncé, Dolly Parton, and Bruce Willis
“One of the coolest things, especially during the pandemic, we decided to do this mini campaign called Stars Stuck at Home. Everyone was stuck at home. It was quite a miserable time, and we reached out to people that we just thought were epic and connected to, …”
Garland: Search engines autocorrecting 'UUNI' to 'university' prompted the Ooni rebrand
“When you search for UUNI, often it would auto-correct to uni, like university, or UNI, and so, yeah, there was that, and people didn't know how to say it”
Garland: Low personal burn rates enabled Ooni founders to bootstrap without VC
“We didn't have to give up city jobs to make this happen, which I think is a very important thing when you look at kind of entrepreneurs generally. We were used to, whilst we did fine, like we had a really nice life on very little money before, so it wasn't tha…”