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Kevin Lavelle

Co-Founder and CEO, Harbor · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kevin Lavelle is the founder of the menswear brand Mizzen+Main, known for performance-fabric dress shirts. He currently serves as co-founder and CEO of Harbor, a sleep-technology company.

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3 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Kevin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Everything Kevin Lavelle said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Military veterans have more valuable workforce skills than most MBA graduates
“Just because you don't have a set skill set or a college degree in many cases that would allow you to go into the true corporate world, you've got more skills than most people that I know that got maybe even an MBA. Because of the discipline and rigor of the m…”
Kevin Lavelle Feb 26, 2016 ▶ 12:12 The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7
Insight
Founders unable to sell 10 units to friends likely have bad ideas
“Can you sell 10 of them to your friends and family? Because if you can't sell 10 to your friends and family, you might not be on to something.”
Kevin Lavelle Feb 26, 2016 ▶ 7:33 The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7
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Kevin Lavelle estimates Brooks Brothers shirts cost $5 to $10 to make
“What I can say is you know, the cost of a dress shirt for Brooks Brothers is going to be, and I don't know their actual numbers, but from doing a lot of industry research, they're between five and 10 dollars a shirt.”
Kevin Lavelle Feb 26, 2016 ▶ 10:36 The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7
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Mizzen+Main has grown 4x to 5x year-over-year since inception
“We to give some concrete numbers, and we don't disclose exact revenue figures, but just to give some concrete numbers, we've been growing four to five acts a year on year since we started, and as of, The first week of June, we had surpassed all of 20 fourteen'…”
Kevin Lavelle Feb 26, 2016 ▶ 4:59 The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7
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Lavelle: Mizzen+Main Sold Roughly 20 Shirts on Launch Day
“That first day, I think we sold probably 20 shirts which was huge, right?”
Kevin Lavelle Feb 26, 2016 ▶ 6:43 The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7 Feb 26, 2016 7m
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