Agrawal: Boundary-pushing products require visionary investors
Miki Agrawal · #14 The Ghost of Startups Past: Tushy · Mar 3, 2025 · at 29:07
Miki Agrawal reflects on investor skepticism regarding consumer adoption for bidet products in the American market.
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“If everybody believed in your product, then it would exist already. You know, it would already be in the world en masse, and the fact that it isn't means it requires a certain type of investors to see the future, to see where we're going”
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