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Scott Harrison

19 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 5, 2023 by Scott Harrison · across every show →

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Apr 5, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Harrison: I advise other nonprofit founders against the 100% donation model
“I can't even tell you how hard that was, and how I talk other people away from doing that now.”
Scott Harrison Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 21:27 Charity: Water's Scott Harrison: You must master the skill of storytelling to scale
Apr 5, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Hoffman: Charity: Water guarantees 100% of public donations fund projects
“He made radical transparency the fundamental rock of charity water, which guaranteed that a hundred percent of public donations will be used on its well digging projects.”
Reid Hoffman Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 8:07 Charity: Water's Scott Harrison: You must master the skill of storytelling to scale
Apr 5, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harrison: Charity: Water was down to $111 in its overhead account
“So we get to this point about a year and a half in where we raised a couple million dollars and the game was up. There was a moment when there was a 111 dollars in the bank account for overhead.”
Scott Harrison Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 22:06 Charity: Water's Scott Harrison: You must master the skill of storytelling to scale
Apr 5, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Hoffman: Charity: Water has funded 30,000 projects serving 8.5M people
“His nonprofit, Charity Water, has funded 30,000 water projects across 26 countries, bringing clean water to Eight and a half million people.”
Reid Hoffman Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 7:40 Charity: Water's Scott Harrison: You must master the skill of storytelling to scale
Apr 5, 2023
Insight
Hoffman: People respond more passionately to solutions than problems
“What Scott understood instinctively was that people respond more passionately to solutions than to problems. Problems can inspire outrage and guilt, but they also trigger compassion fatigue. Solutions inspire hope and motivation.”
Reid Hoffman Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 28:43 Charity: Water's Scott Harrison: You must master the skill of storytelling to scale
Nov 28, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
charity: water has provided clean water to over 17.5 million people
“Our impact is now up to over 17 and a half million people with access to clean water across about a 137,000 communities around the world.”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 1:57 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
charity: water's overhead bank account once dropped to just $111
“So we get to this point about a year and a half in, where we raised a couple million dollars, and the game was up. There was a moment when there was a 111 dollars in the bank account for overhead.”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 15:25 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023
Assertion Supported
A $12,000 sponsored well pumps one million liters of water annually
“A well that somebody sponsors for 12,000 dollars can pump a million liters. I mean, a million liters every year.”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 25:57 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
703 million people globally lack access to clean drinking water
“So, as of right now, we are down to seven hundred and three million people living on Earth without access to clean water.”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 1:35 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023 positive
Disclosure
charity: water intentionally built its brand on hope, not shame
“We are on all the platforms now trying to reach people with the mediums that they are consuming every single day and reach them with true stories, but also a brand that is aspirational and hopeful, not a brand based on shame and guilt.”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 13:10 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023
Disclosure
Harrison quit nightclub promoting for a year of humanitarian service
“I actually asked myself this question, what would the opposite of my life look like? And I thought, well, if I'm this selfish, hedonistic, drug-addled nightclub promoter, who's done nothing for anyone else, What would it look like to actually help people in ne…”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 4:33 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Bebo founder Michael Birch wired $1 million to save charity: water
“Three days later, I get an email from him saying, hey, it was great meeting you. I wired a million dollars into your overhead account. So we go from insolvent to a year in funding.”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 16:50 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harrison blasted his nightclub email list with charity photos from Africa
“So that first year I took 50,000 photos, and I was just blast, I was assaulting my club email list every few days, every week, with a new story, a new before and after set.”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 10:51 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023
Assertion Supported
Harrison cold-emailed founders of Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo for funding
“He'd even cold emailed the founders of the three biggest social networks of the time. Mark Zuckerberg, MySpace founder Tom Anderson, Bebo founder Michael Birch.”
Reid Hoffman Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 15:51 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023 positive
Disclosure
charity: water is building a 7,000 square foot retail tech experience
“One of the things we're working on right now, we're building a 7000 square foot retail experience where we're going to bring people in who may have never contemplated the global water crisis before, and we're going to use cutting edge technology to lure them i…”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 23:55 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
130 donor families fund all charity: water overhead expenses
“A hundred percent of public donations go directly to the field to provide people clean water, and then in this separately audited bank account, about a 130 families pay the overhead.”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 13:40 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harrison's early nightclub email list had nearly 100% open rates
“15,000 people on my club email list, and open rates were almost a hundred percent back then.”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 9:43 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Harrison warns founders against adopting the 100% public donation model
“I can't even tell you how hard that was, and how I talk other people away from doing that now.”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 14:56 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
Nov 28, 2023
Assertion Supported
Harrison launched charity: water at a nightclub, raising $15,000
“I launched Charity Water in a nightclub on my birthday. It was my 31st birthday, and the only idea I had to officially launch was to get a bunch of people in a club, give them open bar, and ask them for 20 bucks on the way in as a donation. And we raised 15,00…”
Scott Harrison Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 20:40 Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later | Masters of Scale
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