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Wheelhouse secured multiple Discovery Plus series for YouTube creator Mark Rober
“Now we've set him up with a couple series at Discovery Plus that he's in production on.”
Pawn Stars feature drove fractional platform Rally's highest user signup spike
“And then of course, after Pawn Stars aired, they'd never had as much user sign up as that first night. And then the re-air, same thing, their number two night ever.”
Wheelhouse reserves large checks for post-revenue startups ready for media scale
“We focus primarily on our bigger checks on stuff that is post revenue and in a spot where we can try to pour the gasoline of our network on top of it, because if the platform's not set up and the supply chain can't get there, then of course we fired a shot in …”
Wheelhouse writes balance-sheet checks to buy early-stage access to founders
“We'll write checks off the balance sheet for early stage stuff to get relationships with the founders to learn more about spaces because we can offer the founders access to NBC host or Bloomberg's top bureau chiefs or stuff like that. We'll always get a little…”
Wheelhouse subsidiary Portal A manages Steph Curry's YouTube channel
“We have another company called Portal A that really focuses on Digital stars and YouTube channels. They do Steph Curry's YouTube channel.”
Wheelhouse entered Goldin Auctions' cap table by offering a television concept
“We invested in a company called Golden Auctions. Really legitimate investors, Steve Cohen, Peter Chernin, the Chernin Group, have all invested in. Our little way for us to elbow into the cap table was by saying, hey, we'll take out A TV concept on the business…”
Wheelhouse secures co-investment by offering media reach instead of leading rounds
“And so we thought if we can partner up with best in class investors, whether it's venture or private equity, we can co-invest and they won't look at us as competitive. We're not trying to lead. So we've just piggybacked with these folks on coming into great op…”