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Office Hours by DTC SchoolAuthor: DTC School
The Offices Hours podcast was created to learn from some of the best and brightest minds in eCommerce to answer some of the hardest questions in the industry. How do you create a strong eCommerce company in a time when CAC is on the rise? How should your eCommerce company go about fundraising? What are some of the hard tactics to use to scale from 0 to 1M and beyond? Join host Richie Mashiko as he talks to founders, operators, and investors in the DTC space to answer questions like these and more. If you're in eCommerce, then this podcast was created just for you! Language: en Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Alex Song: Venture Investing, Building a DTC Platform, and Optionality| Office Hours Ep. 14
Monday, 13 July, 2020
On this episode of "Office Hours", host Richie Mashiko talks with Alex Song, the founder & CEO of Innovation Department, a tech-enabled platform building an incredible portfolio of consumer brands. Prior to Innovation Department, Alex spent some time in the finance and banking world at firms like Goldman Sachs and Pershing Square. Alex has also made venture investments in some of the world's top consumer startups like Lyft, Pinterest, Dropbox, Classpass and Hims. On this episode, we talk about what attracted him to the holding company model vs. the venture fund model, his thoughts on venture capital and DTC brands, why optionality is important for brands both in terms of distribution and operations, and the strategy of brands that use his SaaS platform, DojoMojo. This was one of our favorite episodes to record and there's a ton that you can learn from Alex. Hope you enjoy the show!
