Jesse Pujji
12 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 20, 2023 by Jesse Pujji · across every show →
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Jul 20, 2023
Pujji: Founders should pivot within six to twelve months if traction stalls
“I think the entrepreneur's version of that is like, you never go broke by making a quick pivot. And so, you know, I think how long have we given it a year and change? Like, I think the, to me, it's like no more than a year, you know, and six months of like rea…”
Jul 20, 2023 bullish
Pujji: 'Bootstrap giants' sit between VC startups and lifestyle businesses
“And I think there's a big opportunity between the sort of, you know, lifestyle business and the venture funded business. There's a lot of businesses in between that I call bootstrap giants. There are these ambitious but self-funded profitable companies that ca…”
Jul 20, 2023 positive
Jul 20, 2023
Pujji: Productized service offerings should target at least 60% gross margins
“And you're already thinking about having at least 60% gross margins so that you can go out and like, it's like, you know, cause, cause once you shape the front of the offer and then people want to buy that offer, then the whole part of the business is how do y…”
Jul 20, 2023
Pujji: Software demands deeper problem intimacy than services because code cannot adapt
“And like one of the big differences I learned between services and software is in services, a growth assistant or ampush, you could kind of tell me your problem in a vague term. Oh, here's my issue. And I'd say, well, here's a human. This human can probably ad…”
Jul 20, 2023 positive
Jul 20, 2023
Pujji: Unfair advantages require crossing 2–3 domains to hit top 5%
“Typically, like, it has to be a multiple, like, it has to be a crossover of at least two, maybe three things that you really, like, because normally, in the case of growth assistant, like, I knew growth marketing well. I knew offshore marketing. Well, also, yo…”
Jul 15, 2024
Jul 15, 2024 positive
Pujji: College pedigree matters and Wharton was his biggest career meal ticket
“I think, well, one is depending on your age, it does matter where you go to college. And that's like a fun one on Twitter that I always throw at people because people love saying it doesn't. And I can tell you that the biggest meal ticket of my life was going …”
Jul 15, 2024
Jul 15, 2024
Pujji: His advisory firm charges PE clients $250,000 monthly for marketing diligence
“This private equity business we sell, you know, we're basically helping private equity firms assess companies' marketing capabilities, right? That's, and we charge a quarter million dollars a month for our services. It's a very high ticket item.”
Jul 15, 2024
Pujji: Oversaw $2B-$3B in ad spend across Uber and Dollar Shave Club
“I've probably overseen over my career, two, three billion dollars in paid spend, right? We did it. We scaled Uber to a hundred million a year in 600 cities, Dollar Shave Club to, was spending three million a month with us for four years. Stitch Fix, Casper, yo…”