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DSTLD's Lynn, SeedInvest's Feit, on Investor Web Portal (Audio) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: Radio The lux Life while taking a look at the
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  Speaker 1: way in which investors can access luxury products. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just online, but they can actually invest in the company's
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  Speaker 1: online themselves. Here to tell us more about a denim startup.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Distilled d S t l D and they're
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  Speaker 1: looking to complete the rays in a series a funding round.
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  Speaker 1: Here to tell us is Mark Lynn. He is the
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  Speaker 1: chief executive of Distilled and Ryan Fight He is the
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  Speaker 1: chief executive and the co founder of seed invest. Gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: thanks very much for being here, Mark Lyn, I just
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  Speaker 1: want you to start off by explaining exactly what we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. It's not just an online retail site. It's
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  Speaker 1: a way in which you're looking to fund your business. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, Pam so we UM we're a digital e
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  Speaker 1: commerce companies, so we actually UM sell all of our
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  Speaker 1: products online and uh, we've raised some money from traditional
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  Speaker 1: venture capitalists in the past. UM, and when we looked
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  Speaker 1: at the different ways that we could raise capital going forward,
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  Speaker 1: we UM actually found Ryan found seed invest and realized
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  Speaker 1: that there was recently a change in how UM you
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  Speaker 1: could market investments to your customers and to the general public,
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  Speaker 1: which is all part of the Jobs Act, which was
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  Speaker 1: assigned into legislation several years back, but the rules UM
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  Speaker 1: just became available the finalization of those SEC regulations allowing
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  Speaker 1: individuals to invest in companies that have not necessarily gone
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  Speaker 1: public but private companies. Ryan give us more detail on this,
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  Speaker 1: because there are many different platforms for investing or supporting companies.
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  Speaker 1: For example, Indie Go Go Kickstarter, but that's not really
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  Speaker 1: an equity raising platform, is it. It's not. So the
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  Speaker 1: big difference is that with platforms such as seed invests
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  Speaker 1: that take advantage of the Jobs Act, instead of getting
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  Speaker 1: a T shirt or hat or your name in the
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  Speaker 1: credits of a movie like you would with Kickstarter, with
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  Speaker 1: um an equity crowd funding platforms such as seed invest,
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  Speaker 1: you're actually getting equity in the company. So as a
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  Speaker 1: company like Distilled hopefully takes off, you're actually gonna be
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  Speaker 1: along for the upside. So how does this actually work?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if I go on Distilled website, which is
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  Speaker 1: just D S T l D dot com, I can
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  Speaker 1: look at all the genes they offer for men and women,
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  Speaker 1: and then I can also click on the button invest
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  Speaker 1: and Distilled and that brings me to seed invest. Do
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  Speaker 1: I just need to sign up and can I invest
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  Speaker 1: as much as I want? Or what's what's what are
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  Speaker 1: the options? Sure? So if you were to click on
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  Speaker 1: that link and go to seed invest dot com slash
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  Speaker 1: distilled um, you'd basically be able to review you a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of information about Distilled as a company and about
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  Speaker 1: the round of financing, the raising and do your own
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  Speaker 1: due diligence and if you decide to make an investment.
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  Speaker 1: Our platform strives to make investing in a company, a
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  Speaker 1: private company like Distilled as easy as buying a share
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  Speaker 1: of stock. UM. You can't necessarily just invest whatever you want.
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  Speaker 1: They're actually limits on how much any individual can invest
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  Speaker 1: based on their income or net worth. And you're looking
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  Speaker 1: to raise what about three million dollars? How have you
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  Speaker 1: done so far? Gentlemen? Uh, the success has been been
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  Speaker 1: been great. We launched several weeks ago and we've raised
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  Speaker 1: about seven dollars so far UM with more coming in
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  Speaker 1: every day, So we're expecting to hit our goal very soon.
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  Speaker 1: And what's gonna what are you gonna do with the money?
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  Speaker 1: What are you what are your plans for the capital?
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  Speaker 1: So you know it's it's diversified. About fifty percent will
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  Speaker 1: go into marketing, will go into product, and will go
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  Speaker 1: into hiring new people. I got to ask about the
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  Speaker 1: genes business because we had on UM a couple of
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  Speaker 1: Bloomberg reporters yesterday talking about the skinny genes trend actually
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  Speaker 1: hurting sales of fashion products because you never have to
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  Speaker 1: buy new genes. And I'm thinking, especially if you're getting
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  Speaker 1: you know, twelve thirteen ounces raw Denham, this is not
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  Speaker 1: going to wear out quickly, right, Um, do you see this?
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  Speaker 1: There's kind of only one style in many different styles. Uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. UM. I mean, and we just to clarify,
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  Speaker 1: we started in Denham, but we're you know, the plan
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  Speaker 1: is to kind of distill down the business of of
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  Speaker 1: luxury essentials across the board, and we do that by
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  Speaker 1: kind of disintermediating the value proposition and not selling to
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  Speaker 1: a retail stores, which is what allows us to sell
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  Speaker 1: these kind of superlative quality products at a at a
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  Speaker 1: third the price that you see from traditional contemporary brands. UM.
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  Speaker 1: But we've really focus on essentials, so we actually only
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  Speaker 1: make things in in like black, white, gray, and denim,
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  Speaker 1: and we do do a lot of skinny jeans. We
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  Speaker 1: do do a lot of raw jeans. But the idea is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fashion is the second most wasteful and polluting
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  Speaker 1: industry in the world, and so we actually don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's necessarily a bad thing that people are focused on
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  Speaker 1: just doing kind of the baseline essentials in their closet.
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  Speaker 1: People need fewer, better things, not more. I guess that's
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  Speaker 1: why you need some thirteen ounced raw denim jeans, because
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna keep those in your closet until you decide
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  Speaker 1: to throw them out. They will not wear through Mark Land,
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  Speaker 1: the CEO of Distilled d S t l D visit
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  Speaker 1: the website ds T t l D dot com. And
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Fight, the CEO and co founder of seed invest.
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  Speaker 1: You can go straight to their website as well, or
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  Speaker 1: you can get to it through D S t l
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  Speaker 1: D dot com. Talking about fashion on a day when
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