Adam Guild
8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2025 by Adam Guild · across every show →
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Mar 27, 2025 neutral
Guild: Serving local businesses requires an LTV-to-CAC ratio well over 3:1
“To summarize my thinking on how to make the Very brutally difficult economics work of serving local business owners and restaurant owners. It comes down to making sure that the LTV to CAC ends up being very favorable, well over three.”
Mar 27, 2025
Mar 27, 2025 positive
Mar 27, 2025
Mar 27, 2025
Guild: Customer retention is at least 50% emotional rather than purely utilitarian
“I think most people would assume that the utilitarian part of sales, sales, sales is 90 plus percent of the equation of whether they continue to retain and use the product, but I would argue that it's at least 50% emotional, if not more, and 50% sales oriented…”
Mar 27, 2025 positive
Startups should treat competitors as free R&D factories and shamelessly copy successes
“You can think of them as free research and development factories, where they're constantly running a bunch of experiments on the same group of customers, and when some of those experiments Work well. It makes a ton of sense to just shamelessly copy that approa…”
Mar 27, 2025 bullish
Mar 27, 2025 negative
COVID lockdowns reduced Owner to two people and four months of runway
“So we lost not only our product market fit overnight, but all the customers that we just spent two and a half years. Grinding like crazy to initially acquire and build relationships with. And as a bootstrapped company, that was our funding. And we had to get b…”