American Express

includes American Express OPEN, American Express Business Platinum

8 statements across 6 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 20, 2020 by Shazi Visram · said 145 times in 76 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Guy Raz (108), Shazi Visram (16), Daymond John (4), John Hendricks (3), Jim McKelvey (2), Daina Trout (2), Scott Tannen (1), Mike Rypka (1)

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Jan 20, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Visram leveraged an Amex campaign email to raise $8M in weeks
“And all I had to do was take that email from Amex and email it around, and I raised eight million dollars in three weeks.”
Shazi Visram Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 56:16 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
Jul 4, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Visram: Happy Family raised $8M in three weeks using an Amex email
“And all I had to do was take that email from Amex and email it around, and I raised eight million dollars in three weeks.”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 56:21 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jul 4, 2022 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Visram: Happy Family revenue tripled from $13M to $39M
“Thirty nine million went from thirteen million to thirty nine million.”
Shazi Visram Jul 4, 2022 ▶ 56:49 Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
Jan 9, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Trout: Amex denied Health-Ade's request to extend $50,000 credit limit
“We had a 50,000 dollar credit limit, and we just assumed that Amex would extend our credit because we were good about paying it in full every month, you know, so we were like, oh, it's not going to be a problem. I mean, we've been great customers, you know, an…”
Daina Trout Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 43:17 Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout (2020)
Feb 5, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kaye pitched Bitcoin at Digitas when it traded at five cents
“I famously love to remind myself that I worked on American Express in the membership rewards program, and I was in charge of sharing a project about alternative currencies as we were thinking about how to talk about membership rewards as a real value propositi…”
Ariel Kaye Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 9:22 Parachute Home: Ariel Kaye
Jan 20, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Leventhal: Resy was not profitable when acquired by American Express
“We were in sight of it when we sold it to Amex. We were not profitable.”
Ben Leventhal Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 47:35 Resy and Eater: Ben Leventhal
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Leventhal: Resy cut fees to zero during COVID, setting industry precedent
“We did two things, and we did them very fast, and then the industry followed. One is, we cut fees to zero. We thought it was really important, symbolically, to say, we are not in a position to be collecting money from restaurants right now, and a lot of the in…”
Ben Leventhal Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 48:37 Resy and Eater: Ben Leventhal
Jul 28, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rypka: Torchy's co-founder charged $15,000 of pumpkins to the company Amex
“Unbeknownst to me, he puts, you know, I think it was around 15,000 dollars worth of pumpkins on our business Amex card.”
Mike Rypka Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 40:36 Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
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