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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

Not that we're ever going to collaborate with them, but I think the product, just the product itself, we could have done an incredible line of products with them a couple of years ago if we would have thought about it even.

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

Well, Hermes did the tights, right?

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

For 1200 leggings, 1200, 1400.

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 think it's just capitalism.

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 mean, I don't think Mathieu will work on the Chanel sneakers.

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

Maybe he does, but I don't know.

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 think this is just business.

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

That's how I look at 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'm not deep enough into the socks business.

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

As a footwear brand, I think we have a tremendous opportunity or we would have a tremendous opportunity to create that product through more of an innovation lens.

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

We have now, we have through also what we do with Light Spray, we have created for the first time really socks from scratch, which is next level, but that's only been a focus since maybe a year and a half and that's late.

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

if I think about how much we invested in everything else.

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

We should have spent more time on accessories earlier.

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

What accessories do you wish you'd done?

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 don't know if we should have done other stuff because a lot of it is just more stuff on the planet that no one needs.

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

So I don't know if we should have done more.

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 just think we should have executed with the same level of madness, to use that word, as we have on apparel or on footwear.

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

Product integrity and how a pyramid of sort of the aesthetics, functionality and sustainability needs to be in sync.

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

No, La Sportiva.

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

Why?