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Jim Brown

14 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 13, 2023 by Jim Brown · across every show →

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Sep 13, 2023
Assertion Supported
Brown: 5,000 Murders Go Unsolved in the US Every Single Year
“5000 more every single year go unsolved.”
Jim Brown Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 16:52 “VCs React to a Bold True Crime Startup—Is Crowdsourced Crime Solving the Future?”
Sep 13, 2023
Insight
Brown: Building Product Tools Requires an Identified Buyer Upfront
“In order for you to invest the resources to build the tool to sell to them, there's gotta be a customer on the other end of that.”
Jim Brown Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 8:55 “VCs React to a Bold True Crime Startup—Is Crowdsourced Crime Solving the Future?”
Sep 13, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Brown: Uncovered Made $18K Year-to-Date Against a $20K Monthly Burn
“Yeah, so we year to date we've made 18,000 dollars. We made 13,000 dollars all of last year. Burn rate is currently about 20,000 dollars a month.”
Jim Brown Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 11:04 “VCs React to a Bold True Crime Startup—Is Crowdsourced Crime Solving the Future?”
Sep 13, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Brown: Uncovered Has Not Built Data Analytics Technology to Date
“To date, we have not built anything for that because we haven't found the use case for it.”
Jim Brown Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 8:50 “VCs React to a Bold True Crime Startup—Is Crowdsourced Crime Solving the Future?”
Sep 13, 2023
Disclosure
Brown: Uncovered charges $11 monthly or $97 annually for community access
“So all of the tools on our website, if you want to help contribute to a case, a research case, bookmark cases, get case updates, it's all completely free. If you want to connect to the community and bring in the guest speakers and things like that, that's what…”
Jim Brown Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 12:35 “VCs React to a Bold True Crime Startup—Is Crowdsourced Crime Solving the Future?”
Mar 4, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brown: A Strategic Partner Rejected an Acquisition Ten Minutes Ago
“The largest strategic partner that we could get acquired by, I've been in talks with for an acquisition or a large investment. And literally 10 minutes ago, they said no.”
Jim Brown Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 21:37 #118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
Mar 4, 2025
Disclosure
Brown: Uncovered Burns $20K Monthly While Generating $18K Year-to-Date
“Yeah, so we year to date we've made 18,000 dollars. We made 13,000 dollars all of last year. Burn rate is currently about 20,000 dollars a month.”
Jim Brown Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 11:33 #118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
Mar 4, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Brown: Uncovered Paused Fundraising to Operate in Perpetual Maintenance Mode
“I've kind of hit pause but we have a plan with the existing team to continue in almost like a just beyond survival mode, right? Like cases still need to get onto the site. Cases still need to be updated. The community still needs to be nurtured. So we have a p…”
Jim Brown Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 25:43 #118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
Mar 4, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Yin: Uncovered Lacks Venture Returns and Is Pivoting to an Undefined Model
“He wants to fund the media company, which doesn't have that venture return, to be able to pivot into one of these other things that doesn't yet have clear direction.”
Elizabeth Yin Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 19:19 #118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
Mar 4, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jim Brown: Payout Rates for Cold Case Rewards Are Abysmal
“As I dug into it further though, the percentage of those rewards that are actually ever paid out Is abysmal. It's big carrots dangling and they're never paid out for some stipulation that happens.”
Jim Brown Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 11:17 #118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
Mar 4, 2025
Assertion Supported
Brown: Only 57% of US Murders Result in the Killer Being Found
“Did you know that if you're murdered in this country, there's only a 57% chance that your killer is found.”
Jim Brown Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 2:52 #118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
Mar 4, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Jim Brown: Uncovered stretched an 18-month $1M fundraise to two years
“I raised just shy of a million dollars two years ago, enough to last 18 months, right? I've now stretched it two years”
Jim Brown Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 22:13 #118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
Mar 4, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Jim Brown: True Crime Is the #1 Category of Entertainment
“It's the number one category of entertainment.”
Jim Brown Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 12:36 #118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
Mar 4, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brown: Uncovered Sees 175K Monthly Visitors but Only 200 Paying Customers
“I can tell you all about the 175,000 people we had on our site last month, the 26,000 email subscribers, or the 200 paying customers.”
Jim Brown Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 3:16 #118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
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