The Flex Company

11 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2024 by Lauren Wang · across every show →

Everything said about The Flex Company, oldest first

Dec 5, 2024 negative
Opinion
Wang: Menstrual care lacked meaningful innovation for nearly a century
“There has not been any meaningful innovation in this space in nearly a hundred years.”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 5:53 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wang: Flex Company hit multimillion-dollar revenue in its first year
“We did end up hitting, you know, a pretty significant, like multimillion dollar revenue number in our first year, which was really exciting.”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 22:35 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wang: Flex's 2018 retail launch order was 3x larger than projected
“So we launched into a major retailer in 2018, and there was a new person on the desk who put an order in that was three times larger for our initial set order was three times larger than we thought that it was going to be.”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 24:52 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wang: Sam Altman Backed Flex Despite Knowing Little About Periods
“I interviewed with Sam Altman, and I remember Sam was like, I don't know a lot about periods, but it seems like a really big space, and it seems like there's not been any innovation, and I think you're gonna be the person to do this.”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 16:39 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wang: The Flex Company's period disc has 3% awareness in the US
“We have three percent awareness. In the US.”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 31:24 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2024 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Wang: The Flex Company makes the best-selling US menstrual cup
“We make the best selling menstrual cup in the U S now with a patented design that removes like a tampon.”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 31:08 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wang: Tampons caused her monthly infections for 15 years
“I had this one really obvious problem in my life, which was I was getting infections from tampons every single month for 15 years of my life.”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 3:07 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wang: Flex traveled with up to 30,000 discs in Europe
“We're traveling with, like, 20 or 30,000 disks, which are about this big, right?”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 18:14 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Wang: Flex Disc holds more fluid than any other period product
“It holds five super tampons worth of fluid, which is more than any other period product format on the market, but my favorite part is when you go to pee, it self-empties.”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 13:11 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wang: Flex went viral because its disc enables mess-free period sex
“The reason we went viral to begin with is because you can have mess-free, oral, or penetrative fun.”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 13:54 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wang: Steve Cohen offered Flex $200,000 on the spot at YC
“I have this guy walk by, go, I'll give you 200 K and walk away. And someone was like, that's Steve Cohen.”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 20:42 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
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