Melengo's Justin Kwong on the future of end-to-end clothing manufacturing | E1913
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Todays show:
Jason welcomes Melengo's Justin Kwong to the show to discuss how his company simplifies the process of developing, financing, and scaling apparel lines for brands and creators. The two dive into Melengo’s business model, initial customers, fundraising, and much more (1:49). Then, Jason breaks down his A.D.D. framework, designed to enhance efficiency and focus within companies (36:50)!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show
(1:48) Justin Kwong from Melengo joins Jason
(4:38) Justin demos Melengo and its use cases
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(10:37) Melengo’s business model, initial customers, and fundraising
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(23:26) Building Melengo's team and the next steps for finding product-market-fit
(36:50) Eppo. Accelerate your experimentation velocity with Eppo. Visit geteppo.com/twist
(37:50) Jason’s A.D.D. framework (Automate, Deprecate, Delegate)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, welcome back to Twist. |
| 0:01.8 | This week and startups today, we've got an action-packed lineup for you. |
| 0:04.8 | First up, I'll be talking to Justin Kwong. |
| 0:06.6 | He's building Malengo, the easiest way to develop and scale fashion products. |
| 0:10.3 | Very cool company that went through our accelerator. |
| 0:12.6 | And then, after Malengo, I am going to talk |
| 0:15.2 | about my new framework for automating, |
| 0:17.5 | deprecating, and delegating inside your company. |
| 0:20.4 | This is a way to just have massive efficiency. |
| 0:22.8 | So if you're a member of my sub-stack, |
| 0:24.2 | you may have read this blog post I did. |
| 0:26.0 | But I'm gonna really get into details about it |
| 0:27.8 | and how to implement it in your company. |
| 0:29.4 | It's my new A-D-D- framework. |
| 0:31.6 | Automate, Depricate, Delegate, is going to make you if you're a resource-constrained as a startup, much more efficient, |
| 0:37.2 | and if you're a big company, it's going to allow you get focused on what matters. |
| 0:40.5 | It's going to be a great episode. |
| 0:41.5 | Stick with us. This week in startups is brought to you by Vanta. |
| 0:47.0 | Compliance and security shouldn't be a dealbreaker for startups to win new business. |
| 0:52.0 | Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a SOC2 report fast. |
| 0:57.0 | Twist listeners can get a thousand dollars off for a limited time at vanta.com slash twist. |
| 1:04.4 | Wizard. |
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