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Eric Ryan: Digital jewelry will become a real category
“Yeah, you know, I think a big idea of digital jewelry is going to become a real thing, because it allows you to enhance the appearance of it.”
Ryan: Method created the first inverted dish soap dispenser
“The dish soap that we did, which was the first ever inverted dispenser, so it comes out of the bottom.”
Eric Ryan: Method was the first 'Eco Chic' high-design sustainable brand
“We're going to take credit for it, because we haven't found anybody who did it first, but really the first Eco Chic, a product that was high design and deep sustainability, which is really hard to do, and we were both insistent that it would have these qualiti…”
Ryan: Method created the first-ever inverted dispenser dish soap
“The dish soap that we did, which was the first ever inverted dispenser, so it comes out of the bottom.”
Ryan: I drank Method toilet bowl cleaner to prove its safety
“Yeah, so I was in London, you know, I love the British press, they're so skeptical, and she said, is it, you know, safe enough to drink? I was like, sure. So we both took a shot at the toilet bowl cleaner.”
Eric Ryan drank Method toilet cleaner to prove it was non-toxic
“I was in London, you know, I love the British press, they're so skeptical, and she said, is it, you know, safe enough to drink? I was like, sure. So we both took a shot at the toilet bowl cleaner.”
Ryan: Target granted Method an initial 90-store test run
“Target gave us a ninety-store test to basically prove ourself out.”
Method Printed Co-Founder Eric Ryan's Personal Cell Phone on Every Bottle
“We didn't have a customer service number, so my cell phone was on the back of every bottle”
Target granted Method an initial 90-store retail test
“And so Target gave us a 90 store test to basically prove ourself out.”
Method Co-Founder Drank Toilet Bowl Cleaner to Prove Non-Toxicity to Press
“And it was a toilet bowl cleaner. And so we both took a shot at the toilet bowl cleaner”
Ryan: Method divided co-founder roles between inside and outside the bottle
“Very simply, Adam's inside the bottle. He understood that the chemistry, the chemical engineering the sustainability behind it, and I was outside of the bottle, which was the design and the branding of it.”
Eric Ryan: Dot-Com Startups Raised $40M on 40-Page Business Plans
“We had friends who are raising forty million dollars on forty-page business plans and bragging about a million dollar per page for a raise or doing these lavish launch parties, which seems so ridiculous now to spend funds on a launch party.”