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Bill Smith

7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 8, 2024 by Bill Smith · across every show →

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May 8, 2024
Assertion Supported
Smith: Green Dot acquired prepaid card startup Insight for eight figures
“I can tell you it was in the eight digit range. So it was big. So I thought, man, this could be cool. And we ended up selling to them.”
Bill Smith May 8, 2024 ▶ 8:03 Startup Funding Competition: Can This Founder Raising Venture Capital Secure a $550M Exit.
May 8, 2024
What-if
Bill Smith: Shipt and Landing would have failed if launched two years later
“The timing of everything that I created, if you just rolled it forward two years, it wouldn't have worked. In, InSight wouldn't have worked. Shipt would have missed, completely missed the window. Even landing, we would have missed the window because there's ju…”
Bill Smith May 8, 2024 ▶ 40:02 Startup Funding Competition: Can This Founder Raising Venture Capital Secure a $550M Exit.
May 8, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bill Smith: Made $5,000 monthly selling mobile phones at age 16
“I would get out of school and drive my minivan to the car dealerships in the area and sell phones to all of the new car salesman. And I was making 5000 dollars a month selling these phones.”
Bill Smith May 8, 2024 ▶ 3:13 Startup Funding Competition: Can This Founder Raising Venture Capital Secure a $550M Exit.
May 8, 2024
Insight
Smith: Daydreaming about payouts distracts founders and kills acquisition deals
“Whenever I've sold a business, they never happen fast. It is very easy to get distracted and excited and thinking about what you're going to do with your millions. But if you take your eye off the ball, And the numbers turn or something changes. It's game over…”
Bill Smith May 8, 2024 ▶ 8:15 Startup Funding Competition: Can This Founder Raising Venture Capital Secure a $550M Exit.
May 8, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: Amazon's Whole Foods Buy Sparked Inbound Acquisition Interest for Shipt
“Multiple retailers called us within the couple of weeks from that transaction, and they wanted to meet, and, you know, you could tell they were looking to acquire somebody.”
Bill Smith May 8, 2024 ▶ 24:46 Startup Funding Competition: Can This Founder Raising Venture Capital Secure a $550M Exit.
May 8, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith personally wired funds to cover Shipt payroll before Series B
“So I remember we were working on closing the B And we literally ran out of money to make payroll, and I had to fund it, you know, personally. I had to wire money in from my own bank account to cover payroll to get us through.”
Bill Smith May 8, 2024 ▶ 22:04 Startup Funding Competition: Can This Founder Raising Venture Capital Secure a $550M Exit.
May 8, 2024
Disclosure
Smith invested $1 million of his own money to launch Shipt
“I invested probably a million dollars total to get to this point.”
Bill Smith May 8, 2024 ▶ 9:48 Startup Funding Competition: Can This Founder Raising Venture Capital Secure a $550M Exit.
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