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No Street Capital: Purple Innovation Grew 128% YoY

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Notes from No Street Capital's Jeff Osher presentation from the 2020 SohnX San Francisco Conference.

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Jeff Osher of No Street Capital

  • Purple Innovation
  • Perfectly vertical integrated
  • Dominant brand in mattress
  • Digitally native
  • Grew 128% YoY
  • 1200 employees, added 10% in past few weeks to address demand
  • Capacity constrained
  • Public in 2018 through SPAC
  • 4 billion market cap
  • 18 billion in sales for mattress market
  • 8-9 year replacement cycle
  • Not much innovation in industry
  • Hyper elastic polymer technology is proprietary and same with process
  • Vertically integrated
  • Digitally native culture
  • 80% from online
  • 2 billion page views on social channels
  • Hard to meet wholesale demand because capacity constrained
  • Inventory declined
  • There is wholesale demand
  • Signed a facility in Atlanta
  • Each machine is 4-5 million, can generate 180 million per machine
  • Expected...

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob worked as an equity analyst covering small caps, a micro-cap analyst, doing member development a large hedge fund community and freelance financial writing. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal id. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: I almost exclusively avoid the purchase of equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds. I will disclsoe if I have a stake in any company, but in general avoid