Andy Ellwood

Founder & CEO, Stretch · 1 appearance on the record.

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Andy Ellwood is an entrepreneur and sales leader who directed business development for Gowalla and Waze, and co-founded Basket. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Stretch and an executive coach.

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The record, in short

What the tape says about how Andy 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

Andy Ellwood claims he helped sell Waze to Google

“After that was, we sold ways to Google.”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 1:06 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Ellwood: Airport Meeting Yielded Coca-Cola Deal and Future Startup CMO Hire

“Got that connection and was able to do one of those ideas with Coca-Cola. And my favorite part is that I later hired him to be the CMO of my last startup.”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 17:07 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said10 Episodes1

Everything Andy Ellwood said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Andy Ellwood claims over 70% of founders he knows grew up religious

“If I'm, if I go through my Rolodex of founders, the number of founders that I know who grew up with some amount of religion in their life, Pretty high. Like, it's north of 70%. Like, they grew up believing in something that they couldn't see, and so they're pr…”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 33:21 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

Opinion

Ellwood: College is unnecessary if you know your career goal

“Like right now, there's no reason to go if you know what you want to be when you graduate. Because all of it is online for free and you can just start being the thing like quickly, but the accountability to actually do it is the reason people don't.”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 53:10 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

Insight

Ellwood: Sales Science Is Volume, Sales Art Is Funnel Efficiency

“The science is, you know, the law of large numbers, you know, 10, three to one, right? The art is making it, you know, five, three to one, right? So instead of having 10 leads, I get you three pitches to get you one, right? Being able to reduce the spread of t…”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 6:56 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

Insight

Ellwood: Waiting 30 days turns post-event clarity into actionable wisdom

“Write it all down as explicitly as you possibly can. And then wait 30 days. And if you still want to do any of those things, do it on the 31st day. And it was such a, it was such great advice, because it allowed the experiences I had to metastasize into wisdom…”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 40:03 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Andy Ellwood says investors will never back pre-seed founders demanding $500K salaries

“They're like, yeah, but I need to be making half a million in, like, the pre-seed stage of the company. In order for this to work. And I'm like, well, that's just never going to happen. Like zero people will invest in that.”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 58:19 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Ellwood: I was America's top rookie life insurance salesman at 23

“And I ended up being the number one life insurance salesman in America in the rookie class when I was 23 years old, because I learned how to own what I could control.”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 2:52 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

Assertion Supported

Andy Ellwood claims he helped sell Waze to Google

“After that was, we sold ways to Google.”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 1:06 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

Disclosure

Andy Ellwood claims he has helped companies raise nearly $1 billion

“What I, you know, raised over a hundred million dollars of venture funding for companies, or I've been a part of companies that have raised over a hundred million, and then now the coach, you know, getting close to a billion of funding that's come into compani…”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 8:43 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Andy Ellwood spammed five SF luxury hotels to reach Marquis Jet's CEO

“I sent my business plan to five different hotels in San Francisco, knowing that the CEO is gonna be in San Francisco. I knew he'd only stay at one of five hotels and he called me. He goes, how'd you get this into my room?”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 12:03 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

Assertion Contradicted

Ellwood: Airport Meeting Yielded Coca-Cola Deal and Future Startup CMO Hire

“Got that connection and was able to do one of those ideas with Coca-Cola. And my favorite part is that I later hired him to be the CMO of my last startup.”

Andy Ellwood Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 17:07 Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Billion-dollar Acquisitions, Private Jets, and the Art + Science of Persuasion	Jul 27, 2023	38m

Andy Ellwood

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