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Jodie Fox

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
236 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

Just generally, they wanted to get into e-commerce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

So I couldn't find shoes that I want, that I loved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

And as I was traveling, I found someone I could make my own shoes with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

And when the shoes got delivered, my girlfriends were like, hey, this is really cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

Where did you get them?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

And they explained and they asked me to commission designs for them as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

Anyway, so the three of us were hanging out on the beach, I think, Christmas 2008.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

Are you married to one of them?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

We were brainstorming.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

i'll get to that in a second um we were brainstorming and the idea became design your own shoes online so michael fox not my brother actually my ex oh my gosh it's a brother and your ex oh my gosh i love it no no no he's not not my brother he's my ex-husband actually yeah so um look that presents its own that's impressive you managed through that that's impressive

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

Well, the truth is that we broke up really amicably and for the right reasons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

And he's a wonderful person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

He's actually engaged to a gorgeous woman as well, who I get along really well with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

And, you know, it's just, it works.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

I mean, of course, there are human natural tensions that happen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

I'm not going to deny that one bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

But actually, he's a great human being.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

I don't date everyone and then start a business with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

So Mike Knapp, so we all met at law school and he was actually our groomsman.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 377: 6M Shoes Designed, $24M Raised, By Customer Shoe Maker Shoesofprey.com

Oh, wow.