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Lotanna Ezeike

Co-Founder & CEO, Grade · 1 appearance on the record.

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Lotanna Ezeike is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded XPO alongside micro-SaaS ventures such as Creator Check, TripVisa, and Visabot, which he exited via Acquire.com. He is the co-founder and CEO of Grade, an API and platform providing payroll and automated compliance for global contractors.

11statements → 5claims → 2claims resolved → 4.09/5average certainty → 1.18/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not yet assessed how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 2 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 3 are not yet assessed. 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 Lotanna 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
Ezeike: UK Stripe accounts cannot directly transfer to US buyers
“Because the Stripe was registered in the UK, you can't just transfer over to the US, you have to actually then create a new US one, and then Do this manual transfer thing, which I didn't know about before.”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 13:49 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check

How they sound: not measured why? →

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 Lotanna Ezeike on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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

Insight
Ezeike: Founders should solve distribution before building the product
“I realized, you know, distribution is the most important thing. So I actually started working on distribution before I ever started working on the product itself to see, you know, what's the best place for the customers.”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 3:19 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
Insight
Ezeike: Frame startup sales around untapped growth buyers can unlock
“When you are speaking to the buyer, you know, if I say this as growth, it's kind of like, you don't want to sell them here. You want to sell them that it's about here to kind of show that there's still room for that big growth through there to let them know, o…”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 18:47 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
Assertion Open · timeframe Mar 2023
Ezeike: TripVisa and Visabot were completely no-code products built with Zapier
“Yeah, yeah, literally, yeah. So Zapier was my best friend, for sure.”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 3:04 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
Disclosure
Ezeike: TripVisa acquirer offered to angel invest in new venture
“The person that acquired TripVisa, and the reason I was actually also selling that as well as there's a new startup I'm working on at the moment, they actually want to Do an angel investment into the new startup that I'm doing as well.”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 19:12 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
Disclosure
Ezeike: Shut down venture-backed startup in 2022 after four-plus years
“I started out my own startup, did the whole VC thing, did the raising, then the failing and so we actually closed down and wound down last year, and I kind of lost the spark I had just because I've been working there for like four years plus”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 1:04 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Ezeike: TripVisa took approximately three weeks to a month to build
“So with the rise of no code, probably a month max, really, maybe like three weeks. I started building it in public around, let's say, first week of August, and it launched in September.”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 2:45 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
Disclosure
Ezeike: First paying SaaS customers came from student newsletter
“My first way of getting proper customers was definitely through that newsletter.”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 3:54 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
Disclosure
Ezeike: Received an acquisition offer before listing on MicroAcquire
“We had actually received an offer from someone outside of micro acquire. And I think that's what first got me thinking, oh, actually, potentially I could sell this”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 5:08 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
Assertion Supported
Ezeike: UK Stripe accounts cannot directly transfer to US buyers
“Because the Stripe was registered in the UK, you can't just transfer over to the US, you have to actually then create a new US one, and then Do this manual transfer thing, which I didn't know about before.”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 13:49 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
Assertion Supported
Ezeike: .com domains on Google Domains require 60 days before transfer
“Then with the second acquisition, there was Google domains, like a .com. You can't transfer it below 60 days. It has 60 days have to have come past before you can transfer that.”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 14:16 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check
Assertion Open · timeframe Mar 2023
Ezeike: Visabot was a ChatGPT-powered visa cover letter generator
“Visabot is was a chat GPT powered visa cover letter writer, essentially. Whenever you want to travel, when you have to apply for a visa, you have to send a cover letter to the embassy, convincing them to give you the visa. So we're just essentially kind of, I …”
Lotanna Ezeike Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 16:26 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check Mar 28, 2023 13m
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