Shawn Nelson
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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The Conscious Capitalists · How Shawn Nelson Built LoveSac by Thinking Differently · 3 Feb 2025
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And like I said, there are certain things that are less great, like some of the quarterly pressures.
But again, that comes back to then a board of directors, a properly chartered, a properly motivated board of directors and a management team.
really being in sync and being able to move toward a vision that can resist some of those quarterly pressures if necessary, when necessary, so that in pursuit of a grander vision.
That's why I say, like, you know, what's funny is our stated purpose, right, to inspire humankind to buy better, to buy less, is not exactly the message that many of the, let's call them heartless public investors want to hear.
And I know that.
And I keep repeating it so that they can never say, you never told me.
And by the way, the implication is we can never become the size of Apple because I refuse to sell you the same dumb device every year because the camera can be better.
Like in our world, of course, the camera would be modular and you'd be able to add it
That's the world that Love Sack works in.
Our products are designed to evolve with you as life changes, which means they can persist forever.
I have Sactionals in my own home that are older than my children.
They're 17 years old, made with all the brand new stuff that we've come out with recently, and I'm so proud of that.
That's true sustainability.
And we make it with plastic water bottles and all that other garbage.
But the real sustainability is make stuff that sustains.
Design to sustain.
Be future compatible and reverse compatible.
That's a very high design bar.
Very, very high design bar.
A hardcore Milton Friedman investor would be like, no, sell them a couch that they need to replace in seven years so that you can sell them another couch.
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