John Coogan

7 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2023 by John Coogan · said 5 times in 4 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Sep 19, 2023 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Coogan: Soylent reached peak revenue of almost $100 million
“Like almost a hundred mil.”
John Coogan Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 14:03 Brainstorming +$1M Business Ideas With Soylent's Co-Founder | ft. John Coogan (#496)
Sep 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Coogan: Lucy Gum is currently valued at $60M to $70M
“Now the company's worth like 60, 70 mil.”
John Coogan Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 1:54 Brainstorming +$1M Business Ideas With Soylent's Co-Founder | ft. John Coogan (#496)
Sep 19, 2023 bullish
Prediction Held up
Puri: AI will soon power a viral personality test or astrology app
“I think that's going to happen very soon. And this, we'll look back at this clip and be like, dude, he called it. John called it that that was going to happen. It has to happen.”
Shaan Puri Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 57:08 Brainstorming +$1M Business Ideas With Soylent's Co-Founder | ft. John Coogan (#496)
Sep 19, 2023 bullish
Insight
Coogan: Running a high school business is always a bullish founder signal
“If you ever talk to somebody who's like, they were able to, you know, run some small business when they were in high school, that's always a bull signal for entrepreneurship. Like there it's always like, oh, you're in, now you're doing the venture back thing. …”
John Coogan Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 53:03 Brainstorming +$1M Business Ideas With Soylent's Co-Founder | ft. John Coogan (#496)
Sep 19, 2023 positive
Opinion
Coogan: Elon Musk's Twitter takeover officially ended cancel culture for founders
“Now that Elon bought Twitter and kind of just like caused enough chaos, like you can just say whatever you want. And there's like, no, I, I've been telling every, every founder I know, like cancel culture is over.”
John Coogan Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 3:05 Brainstorming +$1M Business Ideas With Soylent's Co-Founder | ft. John Coogan (#496)
Sep 19, 2023 negative
Insight
Coogan: Food brands cannot build monopolies due to shifting consumer identity signaling
“Food is such a signal and there's so much badge value. It's very hard to accrue like monopoly power. And how do you actually go about disrupting Nestle? If it be, if every food is like an extension of personal expression, It gets very hard because as soon as e…”
John Coogan Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 11:56 Brainstorming +$1M Business Ideas With Soylent's Co-Founder | ft. John Coogan (#496)
Mar 11, 2026 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Coogan: Varda Space Industries Is Valued at $726 Million
“Valuation, seven hundred and twenty-six million, but, like, one of those multi-decade projects that could have really, really large TAM, really, really large expectations.”
John Coogan Mar 11, 2026 ▶ 12:47 The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)
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