Avni Patel Thompson
23 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 21, 2017 by Avni Patel Thompson · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Sep 21, 2017
Thompson: Poppy grew weekly bookings from four to ten across four weeks
“That day, I got my first booking, and that week, I got my first four. Every single week, I just set the goal to see if I could just grow 10 or 20%. Well, that next week, instead of just five, I hit six. The week after seven, the week after 10, I was blowing pa…”
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Sep 21, 2017
Thompson: Curiosity and frustration are better motivators than passion
“The tricky thing about passion is that it can make you confident. It can make you feel like you know the answer. But with curiosity, it keeps you humble and it keeps you asking the questions. And frustration just gives you the motivation to get going.”
Mar 2, 2018 neutral
Thompson: Modern parents lack reliable support networks, not just babysitters
“As I started to hear that, I realized that what people weren't talking about was just needing a sitter or nanny. What they were missing was this idea of their village. And so everyone says it takes a village to raise a child, but you know, all of us are moving…”
Mar 2, 2018 positive
Thompson: Ask every rejecting investor for three introductions
“So every person, even if you say no, introduce me to three others. And that's sort of like this little kind of breadcrumb trail that leads you to all the craziest kind of places, but eventually you will find your people and a couple will tip and that's the mom…”
Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 positive
Thompson and her spouse use a strict alternating primary parent schedule
“One is you have to be very specific about boundaries. And what that means for me is there's certain days that I'm on and I have to be a hundred percent founder. I can't think about, you know, it sounds sort of harsh, but I can't think about my kids and like al…”
Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 neutral
Mar 2, 2018 positive
Thompson validated Poppy by emailing 15 parents and getting four bookings
“So literally sent an email to the 15 parents and just said, Hey, I've got these three amazing people. If you need them, just text this phone number. And I gave them a phone number as my phone number. And that day got our first booking and that week I got four.”
Mar 2, 2018
Thompson: Product-market fit solves friction so completely users have no choice
“Stripping it down for me again, I think about it from a consumer standpoint, product market fit has to do with the fact that you're solving their problem. You're solving their problem, the friction that they experience in their lives so well, so completely tha…”
Mar 2, 2018 positive
Thompson: Childcare support networks require vetting, matching, and scheduling
“And so for me, it was that if a village is a function of, you know, someone that you trust is a fit for your family from like a values standpoint and is there when you need them to be could you break it down from technology, from a vetting mechanism, a matchin…”
Mar 2, 2018
Thompson bootstrapped her first startup with $20K before shutting it down
“We spent about a year and truthfully about 20,000 dollars of personal money bootstrapping. And ultimately came to the realization that this was not a fundable, scalable company. And instead of running it as a small business and sort of like a lifestyle busines…”
Jan 30, 2019 neutral
Patel Thompson rejected pivoting Poppy into a profitable, high-priced boutique agency
“There was also an option to say, let's just make this a nice high-end tech-enabled agency, and folks were like, why didn't you just raise prices and do all that? I could have, I hundred percent could have, and turned it into a nice kind of like side business o…”
Jan 30, 2019 positive
Patel Thompson shut down Poppy quickly to conserve remaining runway for severance
“Every month that you continue to kind of persist, you're burning money, right? And for me, it didn't feel responsible to continue to do that. Instead, could I repurpose that and say, Hey, we're going to call it as quickly as possible, conserve a little bit of …”
Jan 30, 2019 negative
Jan 30, 2019 positive
Patel Thompson shared exact bank balances and default dates with all employees
“Even towards the end, our investor update went to everybody. From the most junior folks to my COO I believe in transparency. I believe in educating people on what do the numbers mean. So, Even that very last investor update, every single person saw exactly how…”
Jan 30, 2019 positive
Patel Thompson argues Poppy was not a failure despite lacking venture scale
“I think you could take a look and say Poppy was a failure. I think in some lenses, like that's the narrative, but I sort of pushed back on that because I don't think Poppy was a failure. Poppy set out to do and did the thing. Especially for thousands of parent…”