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2:06Caulfield and Buyers, and even the Campbell Soup Company made it seem so. But the story turned out different. So in this episode, we're going to cover the birth of a new idea, the launch of this innovative company, the fall, its attempts to stay alive, and finally, the cost of death. So this is startup forensics, Juicero. Alright, so where did this great idea come from? Doug Evans told Medium that at age 30, he loved life until something stopped him dry. In 1994, his mother died of cancer and then his father of heart disease. Later on, type 2 diabetes came to the life of his brother, as well as atrial-free relation, hypertension, and two strokes. Evans seemed genetically predisposed to die young and decided that it was time to adopt a healthier lifestyle. This is when he met his future partner, Denise Mary.

3:08She introduced him to veganism. Soon, Evans adopted this raw and vegan diet. It was Mary who told him about the benefits of cold-pressed juice, a procedure that eliminates the juice of the fibrous body of fruits and vegetables in order to retain most nutrients in it. And thanks to that, Doug Evans invested part of his resources to create organic avenue, the first cold-pressed juice store in New York. Although they started with this idea in 2002, and at that time, the cold-pressed juices were novel, similar companies proliferated over time, whose market presence began to add pressure to Evans business. This week, avenue was sold in 2012, passing through the hands of its financial investors, and then it disappeared. This of course represented a problem, but at the same time, an epiphany for Evans, who was missing the cold-pressed juice. He wanted a juicer to do it, but not just any juicer. He wanted it to be easy to clean and use. And this was how 12 prototypes and 1200 days later, Jewish Sarah, the $700 juicer, appeared. An extravagant juicer. Juicer launched on March 31, 2016, and in addition to its high price, it offered small

4:12bags loaded with chopped fruits and vegetables that, in the best style of an ink cartridge, were placed in the device and then pressed with the force capable of lifting two testless, according to Evans. But it didn't aspire to be an appliance in the home, because besides standing out for its large size, about 16 inches, and its design, it also aspired to become a technological platform ready to take advantage of the Internet of Things. The device incorporated a chip to connect to the network and a QR code reader. A juicer with an Internet connection? Yes. Juicer connected to the home Wi-Fi and even had a mobile app. So you'll wonder, what for? So each of the juicer bags came with a unique QR code, which allowed the customers to know where the fruits and vegetables they would drink next came from, as well as other details about the date of packaging. With the app, the person couldn't know, in addition to the content of the packages, the health benefits of the mixture they were about to consume. It would also allow the machine to refuse to process the bags whose expiration date had already passed. It was also useful in case there was an emergency, forcing the company to withdraw the product from the market. This would make it easier to locate the bags and prevent them from being consumed.

5:15Remember that Doug Evans' philosophy was to consume, fresh and raw products, and that is why juicer bags did not have a shelf life beyond eight days, so the price for each bag was between $5 and $8. Also the packages were only sold if you owned a juicer. In addition, to ensure that no other manufacturer created similar bags and tried to take advantage of their invention, juicer made sure that the machine would only squeeze bags that had a QR code of their property. A strategy that businesses inside it categorized as a smart move by the starter to avoid what curic owners were going through. Curic of course created this machine to make domestic consumption drinks such as coffee, but over time they have experienced the theft of profits by other companies that copied and manufactured capsules like their own. One step to the side. Secondly, Doug Evans compared his user with the first unit of the Tesla Roadster. The car was expensive, but over time, the price decreased. The founder of juicer was convinced that the $700 juicer cost was justified, because he claimed that innovation should be born somewhere, and that the juicer could first reach people with more resources and then get cheaper.

6:18And he was right. Over time the price had to decrease, but it was caused by the slow sales of the device. Although juicer was his dream, Doug Evans was invited by the company's board of directors to step aside and allow former Coca-Cola president Jeff Dunn to become the new CEO. That's October 2016. Months after his arrival at the company in January 2017, one of Dunn's first decisions was to reduce the price of the device which went from $700 to $400. But how did juicer convince 16 investors to bet on their company and raise $120 million? In juicer, hardware and software engineers, food scientists, designers, and farmers worked hand in hand. The company demanded a fresh product, so it approached farms and had three department stores in the Bay Area, where just over 70 employees worked. But let's be clear, if Doug Evans had offered investors just bags of ready-to-make cold-press juice, he wouldn't have raised so much capital. Juiceros' technological promise to take advantage... This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome.

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9:24by Juicero's juicers would be useful in the future to help organic farmers predict the demand and plant accordingly. David Cray, a GV partner formerly Google Ventures, told a drum that has been without a doubt one of the most complicated companies he had financed. It's software, it's consumer electronics, their products and packaging. After the launch of the device, many questions whether it was necessary to buy Juicero and made the attempt to squeeze the bags with their hands to obtain a similar result. The obvious question. However, when Bloomberg News published a video of Human vs. Machine, that's when the company's expiration date accelerated, as it showed that with your hands you could squeeze the juice just as quickly. The juicer now seemed useless, but still, the company CEO came out to its defense. Jeff Dunn said in a publication in Medium that when he saw the headlines in the press that they talked about hacking these juicero bags, he thought about how to show that the value of juicero was much more than a glass of cold-pressed juice. The former director of Coca-Cola, who traded soft drinks for fruits and vegetables, listed

10:26the three benefits of the juicer. Food security, your system would allow you to remotely disable product packages in case they had been removed from the market. Balance, the product offered a balanced combination of flavor and nutrition due to the consistent pressing offered by the juicer. And decision-making, the data generated by the juicer helped to manage a very tight supply chain, as it must be remembered that the product was raw and had a limited shelf life of eight days. Customers, of course, began to feel cheated and claimed their money back. Juicero promised to reimburse them for what they had spent. In June of that year, the company had to lay off 25% of its personnel, which at the time was around 238 workers. They were losing $4 million a month. And then by September 2017, they were history. And a very shameful one at that. The company published a statement on their official blog. We are confident that in order to really have the long-term impact that we want to have, we must focus on finding a buyer with an existing national fresh food supply chain that can carry on the juicero mission.

11:27That was a fundamental aspect which they had to think about since the beginning of the company. So, what went wrong? Many things. One of them is that even though the device was very well designed, it was as Boltz partner Ben Einstein catalogued to expensive for its demographic objective. In addition, it could not get very far since it had spent $120 million over two years to build a complex supply chain that barely had a presence in California and required as it showed later and alliance with the company with a national and more solid supply chain. So, what to do to avoid a disaster similar to Juicero? Just build a product that actually does something but then focus on the problem and not the solution. The best founders of companies are those that focus on the problem they want to solve while the solution is taken care of later. Those who do it in reverse don't tend to succeed. Be cautious with the maker mode. When you create something, you always have to decide to add more and more things to make your product the best. So, be sure to address the point of consumer pain. Also, don't be redundant and unnecessarily expensive.

12:29And considering a new product idea, ask yourself that there's a simple and less expensive solution to the problem that you're solving. Premium products are cool, but that premium needs to come from somewhere. Find your value. The value of Juicero was not in the juice but in being a device connected to the internet. And that's why the investor decided to enter and invest in the company. If the charm of your startup isn't technology, try to be noticed. This episode is brought to you by Born in Roma fragrances by Valentino Beauty, the iconic fragrance duo. Donna Born in Roma Ode to Parfume is a feminine fragrance featuring juicy black current, central jasmine, woody cashmurren, and warm vanilla. Its masculine counterpart, Womow Born in Roma Ode to Dualet, has notes of fresh violet leaf, aromatic sage, green vetiver, spicy ginger, and mineral salt.

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