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THE PITCH Assertion Partly supported
Jillian Manus: Ginger, Hurdle, and Kaiser already have mental health video libraries
“I invest a lot in this space and I know that there are a lot of companies like Ginger and Hurdle and a number of other ones that have this content. Just Kaiser, even the healthcare systems, has a whole library of these exactly looking like this.”
Jillian Manus Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 7:10 #111 Stigma: Whose Business Is It Anyway?
THE PITCH Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dotcal's absolutely ridiculous valuation is going to get even more ridiculous
“And by the way, the valuation is ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous, but it's going to be even more ridiculous.”
Jillian Manus Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 24:25 #106 Dotcal: The Calendar Wars
THE PITCH Prediction Not checkable as stated
Manus questions if competitor Albert could replicate Cushion's fee negotiation
“Then why couldn't Albert do this? They probably could.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 11:19 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
THE PITCH Prediction Held up
Manus: Amazon will compete in retail delivery within one to two years
“I'm thinking more like a year down the line. I'm thinking a year to do two years down the line. I, to be able to turn that on is nothing for them.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 25:53 #41 Can This Startup Help Retailers Take on Amazon?
THE PITCH Prediction Not checkable as stated
Manus: Teenagers will view unGlue as punitive rather than buying in
“I don't see a teenager buying into this. You know, I see that they're going to be presuming this as punitive.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:52 #24 unGlue
THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Manus: Millennials buy vinyl for audio quality, not tangibility
“That's not true, because if you ask millennials, the millennials that are buying the vinyls are actually buying them for the quality. Because millennials are more music-centric than ever, than any general, you know.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 26:43 #16 Qleek
THE PITCH Assertion Contradicted
Manus: There Are More Concussions in Soccer Than Football
“There are more concussions in soccer than there are in football.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:54 #5 FITGuard
THE PITCH Assertion Contradicted
Manus: Number one books in publishing are always faith-based
“And the number one books are always faith-based books.”
Jillian Manus Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 22:25 $1.2M at Stake! Will This Food Entrepreneurs Startup Dominate the Peer-to-Peer Space Rental Market?
THE PITCH Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2028
Manus: Natrion will get acquired rather than going all the way
“I feel someone's going to buy this truthfully. I don't think it's even going to go all the way.”
Jillian Manus Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 16:23 #112 Natrion: The Holy Grail of Battery Tech
THE PITCH Assertion Partly supported
Manus: Le Tote and CaaStle failed; Rent the Runway lost two-thirds value
“Literally, Le Tote went under, Y Closet went under, Castle went under, they raised over a hundred million dollars and never were able to make it work. RTR lost two thirds of its stock value since its IPO.”
Jillian Manus Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 7:51 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?
THE PITCH Prediction Not checkable as stated
Manus predicts hybrid pop-up kiosks will become a vital piece of retail
“I believe you in the fact that I see pop-up shops and I definitely see that, that, that this is going to be a very vital piece of the retail, this sort of hybrid, all right?”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 18:40 Is the ICO Gold Rush Over?
THE PITCH Prediction Not checkable as stated
Manus: Candee will abandon Bounce's delivery vision once storage scales
“I think that if he sees that there's a scalable business in just this first part of it, he's going to come to that place himself, but I'm also going to make that part of this conversation.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 23:03 #42 How Much Do You Trust Your Barista?
THE PITCH Prediction Not checkable as stated
Manus: Petit Pot will succeed with or without venture capital investment
“Literally, this is going to happen. I see this happening to you with or without our money to tell you the truth.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 18:55 #35 The Proof Is in the Pudding
THE PITCH Assertion Contradicted
Manus: 30% of Shelter Residents Are Veterans and Veteran Families
“30% of the people in shelters, the families, are vet families and vets themselves.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:52 #15 A Veteran Starts a Startup: Shift
THE PITCH Prediction Not checkable as stated
Manus predicts Miki Agrawal will succeed with Tushy without pitch investors
“To tell you the truth, I think she's going to succeed. I really, really do. I know. Without us.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 25:20 #14 The Ghost of Startups Past: Tushy
THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Manus: VCs are avoiding food delivery startups due to heavy losses
“No, in fact, VCs, everybody's looking away from these companies right now because they've lost a lot of money.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 24:13 #9 Tuckrbox
THE PITCH Assertion Contradicted
Manus: Hotels Manually Track Soap, Towels, and Food to Log Guest Data
“What hotels do after you leave a room, they literally go in, they count how many towels you use, What portion of the meal that you've eaten, they, how much of the soap that you've used, everything, and then they store it, and that's how they've been collecting…”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 9:16 #2 iMirror
THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Manus: US church congregations are shrinking exponentially
“The church congregations are shrinking exponentially.”
Jillian Manus Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 14:02 $1.2M at Stake! Will This Food Entrepreneurs Startup Dominate the Peer-to-Peer Space Rental Market?
THE PITCH Assertion Contradicted
Jillian Manus: 30% of people in shelters are veterans or their families
“30% of the people in shelters, the families, are vet families and vets themselves.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 7:11 From Startup Novice to Veteran
THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Manus: AR is seeing strong industrial adoption, not just entertainment
“And there is a lot being used in industry and AR, not just entertainment manufacturing we're seeing a lot.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 18:49 #45 Whatever Happened to Virtual Reality?
THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jillian Manus slept on the floor of 16 shelters before rebuilding
“I had a blanket, and I slept on the floor in 16 shelters, so I know it's like to be broken open and have to rebuild yourself”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 3:45 #13 Meet the Investors
THE PITCH Assertion Partly supported
Gillian Manus was an early investor in MySpace
“I was one of the investors in MySpace.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 17:44 #7 Shimmur
THE PITCH Assertion Partly supported
Manus: Uber and Lyft Platform Take Rates Are 20% to 25%
“Uber and Lyft are more like 20, 25%.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:41 #87 Uber for Pets
THE PITCH Assertion Supported
Manus: LP True Capital represents around 400 top professional athletes
“One of our investors in our fund is called True Capital, and they represent something like 400 of the top professional athletes”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 15:10 #70 What Is Michael Phelps Jamming to Right Now?
THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jillian Manus reveals she was paralyzed from the waist down
“I was paralyzed from my waist down about five years ago. I fell down a flight of stairs, and they didn't think I was going to be able to walk.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 4:50 #26 Dynofit
THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jillian Manus later gave significant money to salon workers who helped her
“And years later, and when I came back into society and I reconnected and I started all over again I actually gave the women a tremendous amount of money.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 13:33 #17 Investor Spotlight: Jillian Manus
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