Glossier

12 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 26, 2017 by Emily Weiss · said 36 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jul 26, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emily Weiss: Glossier is 77% female with a 40% female tech team
“We're, you know, 95 people in Soho, in New York, we're actually 77% women. We have over 40% female tech team.”
Emily Weiss Jul 26, 2017 ▶ 1:18 Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Emily Weiss: Next-gen CPG companies will require two-way customer relationships
“The relationship to the customer in terms of creating brands, I think, is going to be beyond just Glossier and Beauty, like, something that most of the great next generation, like, you know, CPG companies are going to be built around this notion of, like, this…”
Emily Weiss Jul 26, 2017 ▶ 16:57 Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2017 negative
Insight
Emily Weiss: Direct-to-consumer is not a customer value proposition by itself
“She doesn't care that she's getting it like directly from us. That's not like the value proposition. Like maybe she even wants to just go get it right, you know, at Sephora like the next day. But what is, you know, really interesting about how we're reinventin…”
Emily Weiss Jul 26, 2017 ▶ 12:45 Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2017 bearish
What-if
Emily Weiss: Glossier could 4x revenue in Sephora but rejects wholesale
“We could put ourselves in a Sephora, you know, tomorrow and probably, like, Forex revenue, Like but I, I don't know that that would really help us achieve the long-term impact we want in women's lives.”
Emily Weiss Jul 26, 2017 ▶ 18:30 Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2017
Disclosure
Emily Weiss: Glossier has hundreds of thousands of US customers purely D2C
“We are purely direct to consumer, so all sold through Glossier.com and have many hundreds of thousands of customers now in, in the United States.”
Emily Weiss Jul 26, 2017 ▶ 12:02 Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emily Weiss: 79% of Glossier's growth came from peer-to-peer recommendations
“79% of our growth last year was all based on peer-to-peer recommendations, so it's not through paid it's not through, like, an acquisition, you know, machine, it's just been through women telling each other how much they love our products”
Emily Weiss Jul 26, 2017 ▶ 18:50 Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2017 positive
Insight
Emily Weiss: Physical retail must prioritize hospitality over sales per square foot
“I think it should be more, it's much more experiential, and so I think more about hospitality than I do about, like, you know, sales per square foot.”
Emily Weiss Jul 26, 2017 ▶ 20:38 Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2017
Disclosure
Emily Weiss: Glossier blends editorial judgment with crowdsourced customer feedback
“Like, we don't one for one crowdsource. We don't say, like, you know, tell us exactly what to make, and we'll shade match it, and we'll send it to you. We really kind of combine our editorial background as beauty editors with you know, hearing, you know, 30% o…”
Emily Weiss Jul 26, 2017 ▶ 6:08 Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emily Weiss: Glossier achieved 600% growth two years in a row
“We've had 600% growth in the last 12 months, 600% growth the year before that”
Emily Weiss Jul 26, 2017 ▶ 18:17 Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emily Weiss: Glossier was accidentally profitable for a few months in 2016
“We were actually, like, accidentally profitable a couple months last, last year, which was, like, cool to see.”
Emily Weiss Jul 26, 2017 ▶ 17:42 Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Sep 4, 2017 positive
Opinion
Laura Behrens Wu: Glossier excels by feeling like a friend, not corporate
“I think they're doing a phenomenal job just making sure that their followers are being engaged on the right channels, the channels that they're active on, and that it's Not that corporate. Like it does not, when I look at their site, I don't get a corporate fe…”
Laura Behrens Wu Sep 4, 2017 ▶ 11:07 Spotting Ecommerce Trends in Shipping Data - Laura Behrens Wu · Y Combinator
Feb 27, 2019
Insight
Saroya: Early mobile e-commerce only worked vertical or impulse purchase
“Either you went vertical or you went impulse price purchase.”
Karn Saroya Feb 27, 2019 ▶ 8:26 Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
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