Harold Hughes

Everything Harold Hughes said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

THE PITCH Opinion

Hughes: Ethereum lacks the speed required for digital ticket transactions

“The biggest challenge in that is that they are using Ethereum and other blockchains that don't have the speed that are able to keep up with the way that tickets are going to be transacted digitally.”

Harold Hughes Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 11:39 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

THE PITCH Assertion Supported

Hughes: 50 million college football fans sit outside Ticketmaster's control

“Fifty million fans go to college football every year, and that's largely not Ticketmaster.”

Harold Hughes Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 7:21 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hughes: Bandwagon has 558,000 tickets loaded on its blockchain

“So we have 558,000 tickets already on our blockchain for an MLS soccer team, and we have an NFL team that shares that same stadium.”

Harold Hughes Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:52 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

THE PITCH Prediction Not checkable as stated

Hughes: Bandwagon can generate $100K in revenue per stadium

“We should be able to do a 100,000 dollars per stadium that we sign on.”

Harold Hughes Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:36 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

THE PITCH Prediction Didn’t hold up

Hughes: Bandwagon will sign three more stadiums in 2018

“We'll sign three more teams three more stadiums. Two of them will be NFL, or excuse me, two of them will be professional and then one of them will be a collegiate team.”

Harold Hughes Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 16:18 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

THE PITCH Disclosure

Hughes: Bandwagon is raising $1.5M to address $2.3B ticket fraud industry

“So my team, small yet scrappy, is here raising 1.5 million dollars to address the 2.3 billion dollar ticket fraud industry and really reshape what authenticity and validity looks like in the secondary ticket market.”

Harold Hughes Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 2:36 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hughes: Bandwagon captured data on 48% of attendees in Sacramento State pilot

“We captured 48% of their baseball fans in our eight game pilot with them.”

Harold Hughes Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:09 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

THE PITCH Assertion Supported

Bandwagon is one of the first ticketing partners on IBM Hyperledger

“We're one of the first partners in IBM's Hyperledger Fabric blockchain using it in a ticketing application.”

Harold Hughes Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 11:48 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

THE PITCH Disclosure

Hughes: Bandwagon has one team on blockchain and a Ticketmaster API

“And so we have one team that's already loaded their blockchain, their tickets. Another one will go in on July. We're redesigning our dashboard. There's an API that we've already built for Ticketmaster customers.”

Harold Hughes Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 13:15 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

THE PITCH Assertion Contradicted

Hughes: Hundreds of fans were turned away with fake NBA Finals tickets

“Hundreds of fans were turned away at the gate this year for the NBA Finals, because unbeknownst to them, they had fake tickets.”

Harold Hughes Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 2:14 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

The other half of the tape: Harold Hughes's own voice is left out of every number here. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Harold Hughes, by other people (2)

THE PITCH Prediction Didn’t hold up

Diamond: Hughes will easily raise his $1.5M round for Bandwagon

“I think he'll raise this round, no problem. He's great. He'll get to 1.5, and then we'll see where it goes.”

Howie Diamond Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:59 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

THE PITCH Assertion Supported

Josh Muccio: Bandwagon Is Raising Capital via Equity Crowdfunding Through 2018

“Harold is still working to fill out the round, and he's actually doing an equity crowdfunding campaign, raising money from the general public through the end of 2018.”

Josh Muccio Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 29:30 #50 Ticket Scalpers, Beware! Blockchain Is Coming for You.

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Harold's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
THE PITCHLEDGER	Founder & CEO, NFNTE Capital	1	10	50% 2/4	full record on the Pitch →