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Alex Smereczniak

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
758 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

a cost of goods sold went way down.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Everything.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Gamification.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

It was everything.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Everything.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Getting to see it.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

We'd put TVs up.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

We'd install TVs in these places with the Raspberry Pi.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

It is game-changing, game-changing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

It doesn't matter if you're a white-collar, blue-collar.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Like, if you can see, everyone likes performance and competition.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

But, yeah, same thing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

So that tweener stage really allowed us to perfect the operation, training, hiring, technology we'd built.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

And then it was, all right, it's go time.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

We need to go get into our own space.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

And we had two early investors that really believed in us.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

And they were like, look, we'll PG, we'll personally guarantee us going to go get our own spot.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

And then Electrolux came in, huge appliance manufacturer.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

They own brands like Frigidaire.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Yeah.