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Gérald Marolf

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407 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

Yeah, we're not using it the same way, but the way I think... I've spent a lot of time in South Korea this year.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

The way you look at where there's more speed in subculture and how things develop and more appetite again to...

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

Taking a product and repurposing it through your own lens, I think that is something there's a lot to learn for us.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

But there are cities, Seoul, Taipei, in Asia, where that is almost becoming normal.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

And we have some of that also in some countries.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

I would say less major cities in Europe.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

And it's super interesting to watch.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

And we need to learn from those communities, those kids, the whys, the hows.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

And I think it helps us to create great product with them, for them, sort of in between.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

Very, very personally, I do think that Prada Sport deserves a non-Prada collab, and the people at Loewe will kill me.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

But Prada Sport has done a very iconic thing in their journey with sailing and with sort of that uniform that they've built, 2000s.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

Again, also the materials, the nylons, all of that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

The product is just fabulous.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

Through the premiumization and the luxury playbook, they have re-edited that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

But that is something where I think that deserves a bigger consumer community approach.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

Just making that more expensive and more niche.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

I get it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

I know why they're doing it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

But you look at Stone Island since they've been acquired by Montclair and the product they're doing is also fabulous.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

But product sport essentially is that blueprint.