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Luke Tierney

American statistician and computer scientist

Sep 29, 2026

6:41
So
6:42
one of the positions that we have in the industry that's the basis for really everything that we do is we take a stance against this common perception that Amazon is just a marketing spend.
6:55
and that this is a channel that you're likely to lose money on for a long time until you hit scale.
7:01
And there's brands that we've spoken with that treated Amazon this way, and they scaled and sold.
7:07
And it seems like a lot of people have heard those stories.
7:10
But we have case studies for days showing that it does not have to be that way.
7:15
Amazon should be a real profit driver for you.

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29:19
Can you talk a little bit more about that and how you structure that?
6:18
How do you see that for our founders who are listening? That could be a better plan forward for them.
6:31
So an awful lot of what we see in CBG is a category.
6:35
A lot of it starts with unit economics.
6:37
There's a couple different factors here, but that's a good starting point.
6:40
A lot of brands lose specifically about $60K to $100,000 or more learning Amazon the hard way.
6:55
And learning Amazon the hard way is trying to, you know, sort of wing it themselves or they bring on maybe a marketing partner that is thinking about what great marketing metrics are, but don't know how to, or they're uncomfortable with a marketing plan that is responsible to a P&L as opposed to, you know, just getting excited by, you know, revenue growth, despite what the underlying, you know, financials might be.
7:22
So the place to start is always with making sure that your unit economics are healthy.

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18:34
Yeah.

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