Barr: Media buying can scale revenue to $50M without product repeatability
Jeremy Barr · Turn Your Self Audio Down and Watch Everything Change · Dec 5, 2023 · at 25:15
Jeremy Barr, a mentor and investor, explains to Sean Weisbrot why high revenue driven solely by aggressive top-of-funnel marketing does not necessarily indicate a healthy, venture-backable business.
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“It's crazy how, if you get really good at media buying and sales pages, you can actually get over fifty million and you're in the top six percent of companies and you still don't have repeatability or investability.”
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