Andy Ellwood
Founder & CEO, Stretch. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Andy Ellwood is an entrepreneur and sales leader who directed business development for Gowalla and Waze, and co-founded Basket. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Stretch and an executive coach.
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10statements
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Everything Andy Ellwood said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Andy Ellwood claims over 70% of founders he knows grew up religious
“If I'm, if I go through my Rolodex of founders, the number of founders that I know who grew up with some amount of religion in their life, Pretty high. Like, it's north of 70%. Like, they grew up believing in something that they couldn't see, and so they're pr…”
Ellwood: College is unnecessary if you know your career goal
“Like right now, there's no reason to go if you know what you want to be when you graduate. Because all of it is online for free and you can just start being the thing like quickly, but the accountability to actually do it is the reason people don't.”
Ellwood: Sales Science Is Volume, Sales Art Is Funnel Efficiency
“The science is, you know, the law of large numbers, you know, 10, three to one, right? The art is making it, you know, five, three to one, right? So instead of having 10 leads, I get you three pitches to get you one, right? Being able to reduce the spread of t…”
Ellwood: Waiting 30 days turns post-event clarity into actionable wisdom
“Write it all down as explicitly as you possibly can. And then wait 30 days. And if you still want to do any of those things, do it on the 31st day. And it was such a, it was such great advice, because it allowed the experiences I had to metastasize into wisdom…”
Andy Ellwood says investors will never back pre-seed founders demanding $500K salaries
“They're like, yeah, but I need to be making half a million in, like, the pre-seed stage of the company. In order for this to work. And I'm like, well, that's just never going to happen. Like zero people will invest in that.”
Ellwood: I was America's top rookie life insurance salesman at 23
“And I ended up being the number one life insurance salesman in America in the rookie class when I was 23 years old, because I learned how to own what I could control.”
Andy Ellwood claims he has helped companies raise nearly $1 billion
“What I, you know, raised over a hundred million dollars of venture funding for companies, or I've been a part of companies that have raised over a hundred million, and then now the coach, you know, getting close to a billion of funding that's come into compani…”
Andy Ellwood spammed five SF luxury hotels to reach Marquis Jet's CEO
“I sent my business plan to five different hotels in San Francisco, knowing that the CEO is gonna be in San Francisco. I knew he'd only stay at one of five hotels and he called me. He goes, how'd you get this into my room?”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Andy's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Stretch | 1 | 10 | 50% 1/2 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |