Bryant Wu

All of these consumer brands end up being about two things, customer acquisition cost and lifetime

There are multiple ways an idea can fail at scale, and to achieve high voltage, you must check each of the Five Vital Signs: false positives, misjudging the representativeness of an initial population or situation, spillovers, and prohibitive costs. Any one of these alone can sink your ship.

And being on the other side helping founders try to tell their story, the number one thing that I get back is like if only I had more time. Actually, no, no, you don't need more time. You took too much time to begin with. If you're saying I have an idea that's so complex, you need to take time to understand it. That I think misunderstands human... See more

The best models are ones that don't really rely much on paid acquisition. The best entrepreneurs have figured out hacks to get user demand at scale through a user proposition

One threat was we get hollowed out vertical by vertical by specialized marketplaces, because one of the benefits of the horizontal marketplace is the consumer can go to anywhere they want and find what they're looking for. One of the negatives is it's really hard to tailor the experience to the unique attributes of that vertical

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