Panic with Friends - Howard Lindzon
Description
My good friend Josh is the co-founder and CEO of Small Door, a startup that is completely overhauling the pet care industry with a tech-infused membership model. It’s a magical bricks-and-mortar meets software experience. And we go deep on what it takes to build a retail-physical-software company smack in the middle of a global pandemic. Prior to co-founding Small Door, Josh was a successful investor at Softbank, and before that he was part of the management team at public company Outbrain ($OB). I’m a personal investor in the company, so let’s just say Josh is probably going to need a bigger door when I bring my horse in to his West Village location.
Guest - Josh Guttman, Founder at Small Door
howardlindzon.com, smalldoorvet.com
Twitter: @howardlindzon, @PanicwFriends, @JGut, @SmallDoorVet, @knutjensen
linkedin.com/in/joshguttman
#fintech #invest #investment #venturecapital #stockmarket #finance
Show Notes:
(00:38) – Intro
(03:10) – Welcome Josh
(06:15) – Disrupting pet care
(09:26) – Planning, research and executing
(10:49) – Launching in a pandemic
(13:08) – Reaching profitability
(16:18) – Scaling brick and mortar
(22:21) – High-end offerings
(27:15) – Working on something mission driven
(28:37) – The war for talent
(32:56) – Fundraising during a pandemic
(34:12) – Dealing with Private Equity
(39:59) – Wrapping it up
(40:53) – Closing thoughts