Erin Foster

Co-Founder, Favorite Daughter · 1 appearance on the record.

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Erin Foster is a co-founder of clothing brand Favorite Daughter and venture firm Oversubscribed Ventures. She also co-hosts The World's First Podcast.

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Insight
Erin Foster: Demanding exact customer personas before a product launch is insane
“One thing that I never understand in tech, and everyone here will probably disagree with me, or maybe agree with me, is that when you start a business, you're supposed to tell your potential investors exactly who your customer is before your product exists, an…”
Erin Foster Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 8:04 Bonus: A Conversation with Erin and Sara Foster on Everything Founders are Afraid to Say · More or Less Podcast
Disclosure
Erin Foster admits fabricating Favorite Daughter's target customer persona for investors
“For us, when we started Favorite Daughter, they said, like, who's your girl? And we're just, like, making things up, you know? Like, I don't, she's, like, just graduated college, and she's, like, going through a breakup, and she wants to buy her first blazer t…”
Erin Foster Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 8:38 Bonus: A Conversation with Erin and Sara Foster on Everything Founders are Afraid to Say · More or Less Podcast
Opinion
Erin Foster says writers like the strike deal, but studios do not
“The writers that are working for me, they feel very good about the deal, and I think that, you know, writers have always felt really beholden to studios and networks, and it feels like the networks and studios are not happy about where we landed, and the write…”
Erin Foster Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 22:15 Bonus: A Conversation with Erin and Sara Foster on Everything Founders are Afraid to Say · More or Less Podcast
Disclosure
Erin Foster reveals a supply chain partner owns half of Favorite Daughter
“And they own 50% of the company.”
Erin Foster Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 25:57 Bonus: A Conversation with Erin and Sara Foster on Everything Founders are Afraid to Say · More or Less Podcast
Insight
Erin Foster: Prioritizing Forbes covers over building business is a red flag
“We meet with founders and you can see that they're thinking about their Forbes cover instead of thinking about their business. And that is a huge, huge red flag to me, because you can't be in the you business. You have to be in the business of your product, an…”
Erin Foster Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 28:44 Bonus: A Conversation with Erin and Sara Foster on Everything Founders are Afraid to Say · More or Less Podcast
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Erin Foster: 'Favorite Daughter' t-shirt outsold Suburban Riot's famous 'Kale' sweatshirt
“One of the sayings that we put on was favorite daughter. That one ended up outselling the kale sweatshirt, which we just didn't expect that to happen.”
Erin Foster Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 7:48 Bonus: A Conversation with Erin and Sara Foster on Everything Founders are Afraid to Say · More or Less Podcast
Insight
Erin Foster says TV writers build careers without shows ever airing
“You can make a real career out of being a TV writer without anything ever airing, because they pay you to write it.”
Erin Foster Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 20:49 Bonus: A Conversation with Erin and Sara Foster on Everything Founders are Afraid to Say · More or Less Podcast
Disclosure
Erin Foster sold a comedy starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody
“I sold a show that Kristen Bell is gonna play me, and Adam Brody is playing my husband, but it's as if my husband was a rabbi”
Erin Foster Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 21:25 Bonus: A Conversation with Erin and Sara Foster on Everything Founders are Afraid to Say · More or Less Podcast

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Disclosure
Sara Foster reveals she and Erin invested zero dollars into Favorite Daughter
“Favorite Daughter is a joint venture. Erin and I did not raise money. We did not put a dollar into this company.”
Sara Foster Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 25:37 Bonus: A Conversation with Erin and Sara Foster on Everything Founders are Afraid to Say · More or Less Podcast

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Bonus: A Conversation with Erin and Sara Foster on Everything Founders are Afraid to Say · Nov 29, 2023 14m
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