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The Story of a Brand

GREATS - Focus on What is Important

The Story of a Brand

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

5145 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Hey everyone, please note this was recorded just a couple of weeks from the day we went into lockdown. It's very introspective and raw in some parts. I also recorded this episode in my closet. Some of the Audio is spotty but the wisdom is real.
 
In Part 2 of this Feature, Ryan Babenzien, Founder of GREATS,  continues sharing the story of GREATS, a premium luxury sneaker brand, while also sharing his thoughts on digital-native brands and COVID-19. 
 
In Part 2, Ryan discusses What if Ryan was President, Thoughts on COVID Rescue Package, Why we need empathy from a President, The Brands for Better Coalition, How digitally native brands are giving back, Life for digitally native brands post-COVID, Keeping up mental health routine in lockdown, Why this crisis might focus us on what is important, and so much more.
 
Join us while Ramon Vela interviews Ryan and listen to him share the inside story of a brand.
 
For more on GREATS visit: https://www.greats.com/
 
 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Recorded at Retention Science Studios, this is not your average entrepreneur or e-commerce

0:10.9

podcast, and he's not your average host. This is The Story of a Brand with your host, Ramon

0:18.4

Vela.

0:23.7

They're all doing, people are doing things in different ways.

0:26.4

Some are buying things that have a donation component to it.

0:28.2

Some of them are just dedicating their time.

0:35.3

You know, every day here in New York at 7 o'clock, the whole city claps for a minute for all these frontline workers and not just medical doctors,

0:38.9

but delivery people who are out delivering all the groceries and the food you're ordering.

0:44.6

These people are heroes.

0:47.0

And, you know, it's so as horrible as this crisis is, I do believe there will be things that are good that come out of it.

0:55.9

It's just, you know, growth is painful. In every example, and this is sort of growth of our

1:03.0

society to realize that there's things that we have forgotten were important are really important,

1:10.4

and this is the reminder of that.

1:15.4

How many emails do you have unread right now? A hundred, a thousand, more? Now, how many unread

1:24.2

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1:31.4

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1:39.4

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1:46.6

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1:53.6

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2:00.4

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2:04.9

gaps and add qualitative context to marketing analytics. In other words, they emphasize people

2:11.1

over pixels and measure the unmeasurable. And they deliver some of the much-needed performance

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