Ben Williamson

10 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2016 by Ben Williamson · said 9 times in 6 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Mar 1, 2016
Disclosure
Williamson: YoShirt Raised $1.125 Million in First Seed Round
“Yeah, we actually, so we did a release on the initial raise and I, yeah, so we raised one, two, five in the first seed.”
Ben Williamson Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 20:37 How YoShirt App Went from $0-$1m Fast with Ben Williamson of YoShirt Episode 23
Mar 1, 2016 positive
Opinion
Williamson: Snapchat UI has strong product-market fit for its core audience
“What I've realized about their product is that it speaks to the audience very, very well. If you watch a Use Snapchat. They know the app inside and out. And it's intuitive to them, but it's speaking to their customer. And it's not something, you know, that you…”
Ben Williamson Mar 1, 2016 ▶ 22:12 How YoShirt App Went from $0-$1m Fast with Ben Williamson of YoShirt Episode 23
Jun 10, 2016 positive
Insight
Williamson: Engineers Should Leverage Technical Debt When Testing Uncertain Features
“It's useful to be a hacker and use technical debt for your, you know, as leverage. If you're not sure something's going to work, you've got to be willing to throw it away and you don't want to invest too much.”
Ben Williamson Jun 10, 2016 ▶ 21:28 This App is Redefining On Demand Apparel Commerce with 3m Downlaods and $3m+ In Sales, EP 273: Ben Williamson
Jun 10, 2016
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Williamson: Yo Shirt has over 100k paying customers
“We have over a 100,000 paying customers.”
Ben Williamson Jun 10, 2016 ▶ 7:40 This App is Redefining On Demand Apparel Commerce with 3m Downlaods and $3m+ In Sales, EP 273: Ben Williamson
Jun 10, 2016 negative
Opinion
Williamson: Stanford and Berkeley Grads at Apple Couldn't Fix Production Systems
“When I ended up at Apple, I was working with, you know, all these kids coming out of Stanford and Berkeley that had a lot of theory, but couldn't actually do anything. You know, I'd say, hey, you know, we're doing 360 transactions per second to this MySQL data…”
Ben Williamson Jun 10, 2016 ▶ 20:51 This App is Redefining On Demand Apparel Commerce with 3m Downlaods and $3m+ In Sales, EP 273: Ben Williamson
Jun 10, 2016
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Williamson: Yo Shirt reached over 3M lifetime downloads
“All in over the life of the app is over three million people that have downloaded the app. There were two million last year.”
Ben Williamson Jun 10, 2016 ▶ 7:26 This App is Redefining On Demand Apparel Commerce with 3m Downlaods and $3m+ In Sales, EP 273: Ben Williamson
Jun 10, 2016
Disclosure
Yo Shirt employs 13 full-time staff members
“We've got 13 full-time employees now.”
Ben Williamson Jun 10, 2016 ▶ 4:10 This App is Redefining On Demand Apparel Commerce with 3m Downlaods and $3m+ In Sales, EP 273: Ben Williamson
Jun 10, 2016
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Williamson: Yo Shirt generated $3M in top-line revenue in 2015
“So total top line revenue in 2015 was three million dollars.”
Ben Williamson Jun 10, 2016 ▶ 9:19 This App is Redefining On Demand Apparel Commerce with 3m Downlaods and $3m+ In Sales, EP 273: Ben Williamson
Jun 10, 2016 positive
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Williamson: Periscope Data gives Yo Shirt more operational insight than suppliers have
“It's periscopedata.com, and it basically, Nathan, I have better insight into suppliers we work with. I have more insight into their business than they do. And it's because I have real time data.”
Ben Williamson Jun 10, 2016 ▶ 18:30 This App is Redefining On Demand Apparel Commerce with 3m Downlaods and $3m+ In Sales, EP 273: Ben Williamson
Jun 10, 2016 bullish
Opinion
Ben Williamson rejects hypothetical $10M cash buyout offer for Yo Shirt
“I don't know, Nathan. I think that's a little low.”
Ben Williamson Jun 10, 2016 ▶ 12:49 This App is Redefining On Demand Apparel Commerce with 3m Downlaods and $3m+ In Sales, EP 273: Ben Williamson
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