Office Hours by DTC School

On this episode of Office Hours, host Richie Mashiko chats with Andrew Faris, the CEO of 4x400, a modern holding company building a collection of digitally native brands. 4x400 is a part of the larger Common Thread Collective ecosystem. CTC is one of the most prolific digital sales agencies in the ecommerce space. Prior to becoming CEO of 4x400, Andrew was the VP of Growth at CTC and customer acquisition supervisor at QALO. Andrew and Richie talk about what Andrew has learned from working on the brand side as opposed to the client services side, how he and his team are going about building brands at 4x400, content and commerce, and baseball and how being a sports data nerd can help with DTC.

On this episode of Office Hours, host Richie Mashiko chats with Peter Oey, who is currently the CFO at LegalZoom, a direct-to-consumer legal business. Prior to joining LegalZoom, Peter served as the CFO of MyLife.com and he also was at Activision, where he was as a VP and the corporate controller. In this episode, Peter and Richie talk about DTC metrics, profitability, funding sources for DTC brands, and how DTC brands can think about exits.

On this episode of Office Hours, host Richie Mashiko chats with Troy Osinoff, the founder of Juice, an agency in New York that is built to help companies grow. Before Juice, Troy's website MakeAGif.com was acquired when he was around 20, he funded a recording studio that went on to win a few Grammys, started a website about doing dares that was featured on Dr. Phil, had a Tumblr go viral that he sold the rights of to John Krasinski and Fox, was the head of customer acquisition at BuzzFeed, and much more. In this episode, Troy and Richie talk about some of the tactics he and his team at Juice use to help grow ecommerce companies, why brands need to focus on retention, and a little about venture capital and DTC brands. 

On the very first episode of Office Hours, host Richie Mashiko chats with Rame Adi, co-founder of DTC School and Office Hours.  In this episode, Richie and Rame talk about the what they're hoping to build with Office Hours and DTC School, the three eras of direct to consumer industry, and the future of DTC as a whole. They cover funding models, DTC strategies, and how multi-billion dollar DTC brands of the future are going to look like.