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Cory Cotton

Co-Founder and Co-Owner, Dude Perfect · 1 appearance on the record.

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Cory Cotton is a co-founder and on-screen personality of Dude Perfect, the sports and comedy entertainment brand founded in 2009. In addition to performing in the group's video content and live tours, he authored the 2011 book Go Big: Make Your Shot Count in the Connected World.

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7 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 6 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Cory argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Everything Cory Cotton said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Cory Cotton: Dude Perfect Built the First Dedicated Creator Filming Space
“This is the first time we've ever seen anyone online basically create a space.”
Cory Cotton Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 1:14:39 Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
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Dude Perfect Hit 2 Million Views in Two Hours via Yahoo's Homepage
“It had been shared as the main kind of, you know, clickable thing on Yahoo's homepage, and about two hours it had gotten about two million views.”
Cory Cotton Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 42:52 Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
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Cory Cotton: GMC Paid Dude Perfect $50,000 for an Early TV Commercial
“I know GMC, the very first original thing, and this is for a TV commercial, so this felt way bigger than a YouTube video, but this was kind of the first thing we ever heard, I think, They paid us 50 grand”
Cory Cotton Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 1:03:41 Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
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Cory Cotton Developed Bell's Palsy from Sleep Deprivation Building Dude Perfect
“They tell me, you know, after doing some tests on me that I had what's called Bell's palsy, and it's basically kind of a paralysis of the face that they still don't know exactly what causes it, but what they usually see is stress and lack of sleep, and so they…”
Cory Cotton Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 1:05:34 Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
Disclosure
YouTube Ads Paid Dude Perfect's Bills, But Sponsorships Supported Their Families
“I think that's the cool thing about the ad side, is you can start to predict and get a little bit of a, you know, predictable cash flow there, so it helped. I would say we probably thought about it more so as our YouTube money, meaning the ads, we can pay for …”
Cory Cotton Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 1:15:02 Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
Disclosure
Cory Cotton: Dude Perfect Operated with Just 15 to 20 Full-Time Employees
“We're probably up to between 15 to 20, you know, depending on what time people are listening to this. Yeah, full time.”
Cory Cotton Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 1:22:23 Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
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Dude Perfect Started With a Backyard Bet for a Jimmy John's Sandwich
“So it was that situation, just basketball version, that kind of started everything. Ties in the backyard. And he looks at Garrett, and he says, hey, if I make the shot, you owe me a Jimmy John sandwich. And he's kind of standing in the corner, and tosses up a …”
Cory Cotton Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 23:36 Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
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Dude Perfect's First Upload Was Banned Worldwide for Using Space Jam Music
“Very quickly, after we load the video like Tyler said, you know, this video has been banned worldwide, was the error message we got back, and we learned that you can't just use someone else's music.”
Cory Cotton Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 27:48 Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
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Dude Perfect's Debut Trick Shot Video Earned 50,000 Views, Not 1 Million
“The video definitely did not get a million views. It got probably, maybe a 100,000, probably closer to 50,000 views.”
Cory Cotton Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 30:07 Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney Sep 20, 2021 28m
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