Steve Holmes

12 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 1, 2019 by Steve Holmes · across every show →

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Apr 1, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Holmes: Acquiring the Springfree Trampoline Patent Cost Close to $1 Million
“To buy everything when everything was all said and done and all the settlements at the university, I think it was probably close to that, yes.”
Steve Holmes Apr 1, 2019 ▶ 31:27 Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes
Apr 1, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Costco CEO Jim Sinegal Refused to Sell Trampolines Over Safety Concerns
“The answer was yes, and that was Costco. The CEO of Costco was a man named Jim Senegal, and Jim said, I will not sell trampolines.”
Steve Holmes Apr 1, 2019 ▶ 30:45 Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes
Apr 1, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Holmes: 50% of Early Sales Came From Word-of-Mouth Customer Referrals
“If a spring-free customer has a spring-free trampoline, if a parent who says, well, I really don't like trampolines, they'll sell it for me to other friends and neighbors, and 50% of our sales came from our customers.”
Steve Holmes Apr 1, 2019 ▶ 45:18 Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes
Apr 1, 2019
Assertion Supported
Holmes: Global Trampoline Market Was Estimated at $500M-$600M in 2003
“I think that we had measured that we thought that the trampoline market, that maybe it was a five to six hundred million dollar trampoline market globally.”
Steve Holmes Apr 1, 2019 ▶ 29:21 Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes
Apr 1, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Holmes: Springfree Spent an Entire Year Developing Its Safety Enclosure
“So we didn't sell any products, we didn't make any products, we just spent a year building an enclosure for the Spring Free Enclosure.”
Steve Holmes Apr 1, 2019 ▶ 33:34 Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes
May 9, 2020 negative
Disclosure
Holmes: Springfree dropped major retailers attempting to enforce 180-day payment terms.
“So we cut out almost all of our big retailers. We had a big retailer right at the start who sent us a notice and say, we, we're in 90 day terms with them. And they sent us a note and said, we're going to a 180 day terms. And we said, have a nice day. You're no…”
Steve Holmes May 9, 2020 ▶ 15:21 How I Built Resilience: Live with Stewart Butterfield and Steve Holmes
May 9, 2020 bullish
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Holmes: Springfree Trampoline saw a 300% demand surge during COVID lockdowns.
“300%.”
Steve Holmes May 9, 2020 ▶ 13:28 How I Built Resilience: Live with Stewart Butterfield and Steve Holmes
Aug 30, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Holmes: Springfree invested $5M to build its own factory in China
“And we skipped apart guy, which is in 2008, we decided to build our own factory in China because we weren't satisfied with the quality. So I invested about five million dollars in building a Chinese factory.”
Steve Holmes Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 42:57 Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019)
Aug 30, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Holmes: Global trampoline market was roughly $500M-$600M in 2003
“I think that we had measured that we thought that the trampoline market, that maybe it was a five to six hundred million dollar trampoline market globally.”
Steve Holmes Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 29:21 Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019)
Aug 30, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Holmes: 50% of Springfree Trampoline sales came from customer word-of-mouth
“If a spring-free customer has a spring-free trampoline, if a parent who says, well, I really don't like trampolines, they'll sell it for me to other friends and neighbors, and 50% of our sales came from our customers.”
Steve Holmes Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 45:11 Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019)
Aug 30, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Holmes: Springfree paused sales for a year to develop soft enclosure
“So we didn't sell any products. We didn't make any products. We just spent a year building an enclosure for the spring.”
Steve Holmes Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 33:33 Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019)
May 29, 2025 negative
Insight
Holmes: Consignment retail traps critical working capital in unsold inventory
“The scary part for me there was the word consignment, you know, like, cause you can get a sizing or an item. That'll sit on that shelf for a long, long time cause there's nobody moving it and you've got your, you know, your costs stuck in there.”
Steve Holmes May 29, 2025 ▶ 17:20 Advice Line with Steve Holmes of goba Sports Group
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