Building a Direct to Consumer Audience Online
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
My guest today is Trina Spear, a former investor at ...
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Sep 20 2022 49m
Chapter 1 1 min
[First question] The original insight that lead to founding FIGSChapter 2 1 min
Why obvious opportunities can go so long before being seizedChapter 3 2 mins
Key dimensions needed to improve the product and the early daysChapter 4 1 min
Basic overview of a clothing retailer’s financial profileChapter 5 2 mins
Financing the business and the early stage cash flow cycleChapter 6 1 min
Strategies to manage workflow and making sacrificesChapter 7 2 mins
Advice for people trying to build their brands in a hands-on wayChapter 8 1 min
The biggest calculated risk she took in the first five yearsChapter 9 2 mins
Building a foundation that allowed for such explosive growthChapter 10 2 mins
The story that allowed FIGS to connect with their customersChapter 11 1 min
Painting a picture of the size and scope of healthcare apparelChapter 12 2 mins
Things lazy companies do and thoughts on product varietyChapter 13 1 min
Defining SKU productivity and what to do with low productivity productsChapter 14 1 min
Chip Wilson Book ; Lessons learned from reading Chip’s storyChapter 15 2 mins
Balancing a healthy relationship with your CFOChapter 16 1 min
Where she sees the most runway to tackle and continue to executeChapter 17 2 mins
A women-lead industry and her time spent with Meg WhitmanChapter 18 1 min
The most essential jobs she feels she has and shouldn’t do as the CEOChapter 19 2 mins
Thoughts about relationships with investors and messagingChapter 20 1 min
What she’d be most focus on in founders if she was just an investorChapter 21 43 sec
The most stressful thing that has ever come across her deskChapter 22 45 sec
What types of things bring her the most joy in building FIGSChapter 23 1 min
Philosophy of hiring given their small team and when it’s okay to hireChapter 24 51 sec
Whether or not there’s a role for non A players in businessesChapter 25 1 min
The kindest thing anyone has ever done for her