Ju Rhyu
8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 8, 2025 by Ju Rhyu · across every show →
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May 8, 2025 bullish
May 8, 2025
Rhyu: Driving fast corporate innovation requires explicit executive-level prioritization
“It takes, you know what, it takes a lot of support from the top, actually. And I mean, I'm sure we'll get to this, but, so my company, Hero Cosmetics, we got acquired by a company called Church & Dwight, and they are a big company, not unlike, you know, the Pr…”
May 8, 2025 neutral
Rhyu: Scaling past $200M revenue risks shrinking the strategic acquirer pool
“There is something called too big to buy. And so I really, cause you know, we were growing really fast and so the worry is once you know, get to like 202 50 in terms of revenue, then you're gonna be, you know, people might want a billion dollars for valuation.…”
May 8, 2025
Hero Cosmetics set a $100M revenue threshold to initiate an exit
“Early on, with the three of us, we knew, ultimately, we did want to go for an exit. We always had that hundred million dollar revenue mark in the back of our minds as, That's the threshold. So the idea was like, once we get here, we're going to start a process…”
May 8, 2025
Rhyu: Founders selling their companies must emotionally detach early like a breakup
“I tell people you have to, like, emotionally detach. So, because I've heard there's founder depression. So, you know, you work so hard at building this business, you know, it's like, it takes up your whole life, it is your life, and then boom, you sell, and yo…”
May 8, 2025 positive
Rhyu: A three-person founding team provides a built-in tiebreaker
“In hindsight, actually, the reasons why it worked out, I actually think three, if you have a co-founding team of three, it's actually great, because, I remember, and I remember someone told me, like, oh, three is one too many. But I think it's great because if…”
May 8, 2025 positive
Rhyu: Founders should hire experts who direct strategy rather than needing direction
“I hired people who would tell me what to do. I didn't want to tell them what to do. So I wanted people who had the experience, who were experts in their fields, and I would just, you know, I just let them go. And I wanted them to tell me, like, you know, we sh…”
May 8, 2025
Hero Cosmetics bootstrapped for three years on a $50K initial investment
“So I think it was 50,000 initially, so that's what got us up and running, but then, and then we were growing really fast, so we had to make loans to the company just for cash flow, but we bootstrapped until, for the first three years.”