Ep. 115: Eric Melchor (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericmelchor) talks with Michael Fisher (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikhail-fisher/) about how he left a great career at Uber to launch an innovative service for pet parents.
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Show Notes:
-0:16 - what was your first pet as a kid?
-5:04 - what did you learn from working at Uber, BCG, and Proctor & Gamble?
-8:55 - consulting experience at BCG and having Saudia Arabia as a client
-11:58 - my experience working at Uber and Lime
-13:06 - how hackers hacked a Lime fleet of scooters to mine bitcoins
-19:10 - what joining an accelerator taught me
-21:05 - how he got his first users
-23:06 - veterinarians are 3x more likely to commit suicide
-24:05 - business model of Cooper Pet Care
-28:49 - a key hire you guys made early on?
-30:55 - why the name Cooper?
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Links:
-Cooper Pet Care - https://cooperpetcare.com/
-Michael’s LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikhail-fisher/
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