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Josh Kim

Former Founder & CEO, The Cubby · 1 appearance on the record.

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While an undergraduate at Colby College, Josh Kim founded The Cubby, an online marketplace designed for college student creators to sell goods without platform fees. He expanded the platform across multiple colleges before selling its technology in 2022.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 3 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 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 Josh 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
Kim: The Cubby eventually gave 100% of marketplace sales fees to students
“We gave a hundred percent of the fee to the college student and allowed them to showcase and sell their work to the public.”
Josh Kim Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 31:58 Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby

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We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Josh Kim on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Josh Kim said on Startup Acquisition Stories that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Kim: Founders should focus on solving personal problems, not monetization ideas
“The number one question that my mentor shared with me, and that I came to, came back to over and over again, it was, what is a problem I can solve? And what is the biggest problem in my life? It wasn't, what is your idea? What is the business you want to grow?…”
Josh Kim Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 7:50 Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kim tested 50% transaction fees on his manual campus marketplace MVP
“Like, I was making money, and I was actually implementing manual transaction fees just to see. I, we actually played, I played around transaction fees to a point where I would get 50% transaction fee, and it was crazy because, like, these students wouldn't car…”
Josh Kim Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 16:45 Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby
Insight
Kim: Founders should build personal friendships with their prospective acquirers
“Be friends with your, with the person who's going to acquire you, with the group that's going to acquire you, whoever your main correspondence is.”
Josh Kim Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 47:28 Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby
Assertion Supported
Kim: The Cubby eventually gave 100% of marketplace sales fees to students
“We gave a hundred percent of the fee to the college student and allowed them to showcase and sell their work to the public.”
Josh Kim Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 31:58 Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kim: Acquire.com listing generated 10 to 12 buyer inquiries on day one
“The first day we were approved, I had, like, 10, like, 10 to 12 different people reach out, like, immediately”
Josh Kim Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 35:53 Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby
Insight
Kim: Defining non-negotiables and nice-to-haves accelerates acquisition talks
“Know what you want, and really define that, and I didn't do that for the first two months of my journey, so know what you want and the conversation just gets so much faster and so much more efficient after that.”
Josh Kim Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 46:29 Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby
Disclosure
Josh Kim self-invested $5,000 of personal savings to build The Cubby
“And so I think I self-invested like five grand At the time, and that was almost all the money I had, but I truly believed in it.”
Josh Kim Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 16:28 Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby
Disclosure
Kim: Finding a buyer on Acquire.com took roughly six months
“Like I you know, like I said, it was like around six months it took me for on a car.”
Josh Kim Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 41:56 Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories with Josh Kim, Founder of The Cubby Aug 15, 2023 35m
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