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Dinesh Tadepalli

Co-Founder and CEO, Incredible Eats · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dinesh Tadepalli is the co-founder and CEO of Incredible Eats, a company producing flavored edible cutlery to replace single-use plastics. He pitched the business on Season 13 of ABC's Shark Tank, securing an on-air deal.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 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.

The record, in short

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

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Tadepalli: Incredible Eats relies on patent-pending process and trade-secret mold
“So we did patent the process. It's still pending. But our trade secret is our mold design. The two years and 83 trials worth of effort is our design of a mold, which actually makes the cutlery. That is trade secret. No one knows about it. So we kept that cauti…”
Dinesh Tadepalli May 25, 2021 ▶ 10:33 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Dinesh Tadepalli & Jennifer Zeitler

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tadepalli: Incredible Eats' first order was 150,000 spoons from a caterer
“Our first order was 150,000 spoons from a caterer. That's my first order. I didn't even sell a spoon before that.”
Dinesh Tadepalli May 25, 2021 ▶ 5:27 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Dinesh Tadepalli & Jennifer Zeitler
Disclosure
Tadepalli sold his home to scale Incredible Eats' manufacturing facility
“So that's why I sold my home. I used all my proceeds and scaling of the facility. And then I fulfilled that order.”
Dinesh Tadepalli May 25, 2021 ▶ 5:36 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Dinesh Tadepalli & Jennifer Zeitler
Disclosure
Tadepalli: Incredible Eats Raised First Outside Funding From Big Idea Ventures in 2021
“Till twenty-twenty-one, I was self-financed, but in early twenty-twenty-one, we got selected to an accelerator program by Big Idea Ventures. So we got our first small check.”
Dinesh Tadepalli May 25, 2021 ▶ 9:23 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Dinesh Tadepalli & Jennifer Zeitler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Incredible Eats hit 1,000 retail stores with 95% sell-through in 2020
“And, but because of COVID, we switched to B to C now, and we got a retail order for thousand stores from TJ's group of companies, even without me having a retail box. So I just told them, please give me some time. And COVID gave me that time. I just sat back, …”
Dinesh Tadepalli May 25, 2021 ▶ 9:36 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Dinesh Tadepalli & Jennifer Zeitler
Assertion Supported
Tadepalli: Incredible Eats relies on patent-pending process and trade-secret mold
“So we did patent the process. It's still pending. But our trade secret is our mold design. The two years and 83 trials worth of effort is our design of a mold, which actually makes the cutlery. That is trade secret. No one knows about it. So we kept that cauti…”
Dinesh Tadepalli May 25, 2021 ▶ 10:33 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Dinesh Tadepalli & Jennifer Zeitler
Disclosure
Tadepalli works 9-to-5 at Intel, running Incredible Eats until 2 AM
“I worked in about five semiconductor companies right now at Intel. I still work from nine to five, and my, I take care of my business from seven to two AM.”
Dinesh Tadepalli May 25, 2021 ▶ 2:58 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Dinesh Tadepalli & Jennifer Zeitler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
A Live Nation introduction led to edible spoon sales at concert halls
“And it started there, and she introduced me to Live Nation, and Live Nation introduced me to concert halls, and I sold my first few thousand spoons to a concert hall.”
Dinesh Tadepalli May 25, 2021 ▶ 9:08 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Dinesh Tadepalli & Jennifer Zeitler

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Dinesh Tadepalli & Jennifer Zeitler May 25, 2021 6m
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