Metapixel

“There are over 2.5 billion images stolen and six hundred billion in lost revenue daily.”

“It locks in the important metadata into the image itself, so it cannot be destroyed through cropping, screenshots, anything like that.”

“We are here today currently seeking 850,000 dollars to help finalize our MVP and pay for our legal and IP costs.”

“I worry it's going to be impossibly hard for you guys to kind of get out of the gate without like a really crisp initial customer and like exactly who that target demo is, what their problem is, how they solve it today, and why your solution is better. I think…”

“And we do so by applying a proactive, survivable metamark, as we're calling it, into media. And you can think of the metamark as like an invisible fingerprint, protecting it with Permanent metadata, and it survives everything from screenshots, cropping, and co…”

“I think from observing these other companies that do have developed products, I think at the end of the day, the biggest struggle actually has been on the customer acquisition side. Getting people to pay for this.”

“You have a rather large team for a company of your stage, and I think my fear is, like, you have a team of five or six that's already a little amorphous, and, like, adding more money might actually make the problem worse, not better.”

“External CEO also is a red flag for me. At this stage in the company, a pre-seed company, a founder should probably be CEO.”

“In fact, 2.5 billion images are stolen daily on a global level”

“You're going to know a little bit about a lot of customers instead of a lot. About a small number of customers, and to me, that's like the recipe for startup death.”