Gihan Amarasiriwardena- Co founder and President - Ministry of Supply

HIGHLIGHTS 

00:40 A passion for materials innovation, comfort, and human performance

04:55 Market research: Figuring out how to make the most versatile products

09:09 Launching on Kickstarter after many product iterations 

12:36 Creating a Shopify product page for your brand and ideal customers

20:35 The user experience of Ministry of Supply's website

21:06 The brand's future with video ads

24:57 Connect with Gihan and Ministry of Supply

QUOTES

02:43 Gihan: "What we both did is we were Frankensteining our own products, so I was cutting running shirts and making dress shirts out of them and Amman was making dress socks by cutting the bottoms of Nike dri fit socks and sewing them to Gold Toe dress socks, essentially."

06:08 Gihan: "The antithesis of fast fashion is if you have better products, but you can't just do that by just saying the product is more expensive and thicker and whatnot, but really making sure that it's versatile to be used in a lot of different scenarios."

18:25 Gihan: "Be very judicious on where you want to innovate on your site experience because iterating something like a nav, a Shopify theme for example, like you can kind of swap that out a little bit easier. It's a little bit more dev work."

23:38 Gihan: "Most of the people who land on a Kickstarter video, it was like 60% of it, of the people that came to the page would watch the entire two minute video. And nowhere have we seen a conversion experience like that."

You can connect with Gihan in the links below: