The Pitch

“Dan secured 250,000 in the pitch room.”

“Two weeks after her pitch, Christine got married, and on her honeymoon, she got a term sheet.”

“We've only ever had ed tech companies come on the show and completely fail.”

“We are at 1.4 million just from the pitch.”

“With all of the checks that we got from the pitch and from our previous follow on, without even those now 13 funds that we have interested, we are fully subscribed at three million.”

“Thisweekinstartups.com right now is powered by us, so it's an old podcast, right? It's got 1800 plus episodes, and you can search through all those episodes, and actually one of our latest customers is The Pitch.”

“We've tried using Descript. We don't like tools like that, but we do need help on the marketing on the other side.”

“In total between in the actual pitch room and mingling with people immediately after the pitch, we walked away with a 180 K.”

“We raised an additional one million and 20,000.”

“And 2,871,000 of that was from you, the listeners, which is crazy.”

“In fact, 3,881,000 was invested on the pitch this season.”

“I think that one of the biggest things that stands out was realizing that none of the investors drank coffee or only one of them drank coffee and we were like, okay, this is going to be tough.”

“Laura told our investors she didn't need any money, yet she still walked away with hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding, more than any other startup on her show so far.”

“Yes. That's, that, that's what happened just now.”

“And actually I think it's fortunate for the world because we will solve this problem for the next generation. and this will be something that everyone will look back and like, yeah, that was one of the things we should have invested in, and that's fine, rig…”

“And this will be the final pitch we air that we recorded with him.”

“We never heard back from him and to our knowledge, neither have any of the founders who pitched him on our show.”

“For the listeners, I think what they have to see in this one is that you can come in here with tremendous potential in a business, but if you can't crystallize the value of your business to investors, it doesn't work.”

“I mean, I came on the pitch, I gave one pitch and then I did not take a single other meeting.”

“So Zara raised 200 K from Shark Tank, not that I'm counting, and then she went on our show and raised half a million dollars.”

“Nine out of 10 times, I guarantee you, if a founder had regrets about coming on the show, they'd mask those regrets behind, it was a learning experience, or I'm very grateful for the feedback I received.”

“I had what my projections were, and they thought that they were too low, but what our projections were ended up being true. Like that was what our burn was when that, that following year when we started building the team.”

“He never actually wrote checks to any of the founders on our show.”

“I think this is one of the clearest, strongest presentations I've seen on the pitch.”

“Christopher says they've raised 700,000 dollars since his pitch on our show, and that the product launch he's been talking about this whole time is finally happening.”

“Never heard from him ever after the show.”

“He did that to every founder he committed to on our show, and he also did it to the show.”

“Going forward, we will co-invest alongside the investors on our show. If they invest in a startup on the podcast, the fund will invest too.”

“So they basically, it's an ad revenue deal. They handle all of the ad sales for the show, but they also handle obviously the distribution and promotion of the show. So they're going to promote us across the Vox media network.”

“And we're actually here raising a 500,000 dollar, I don't know, friends and family. We could call it a pre-seed. I don't really care. It's at a five mil cap. We've got some legendary investors involved, and I would love to have more of you along for the journe…”

“We had over 900,000 dollars committed to five startups over the course of three days.”

“As a venture capitalist, I don't really get excited about the potential for the more ad and subscription based revenue streams because I just haven't seen a lot of comps that have done really well. As far as, like, unicorn potential, which is, like, really whi…”

“And yeah, the investors put a lot of money in the startups on our show. Over ten million dollars.”

“We know a little bit about what they confidently feel they can sell, and so I can confidently say I think we'll be at a million at least in the next few years.”

“The investors on our show fly to whatever city we're recording in on their own dime, and they spend two to three full days recording new pitches with us. People are often surprised to hear this, but the investors on our show are not paid actors.”

“What we want to build essentially is the layer that allows listeners to listen to the podcast and click a link in the show description that takes them immediately to something that handles that infrastructure that will allow them to invest.”

“So, thinking out a few years, I imagine conservatively we're doing about 40,000 a month in Ad free subscription revenue.”

“I can tell you people have started venture funds with way weaker value propositions than what you've outlined. It's a good idea.”

“By investing, it feels almost like a conflict of interest for me, that, that I'm gonna, that hopefully if I'm still on the show, even though I don't invest, that that I'll feel that I would feel pressured, or I would have some pressure on me That I don't feel …”

“I'm in for five figures.”

“And we have something like 80 to 120,000 listeners on every single pitch episode we publish.”

“And I'm excited to announce to you guys today that on the next season of the show, we will be partnering with Vox Media and be one of their shows syndicated alongside Recode, Pivot, Prof G, Land of the Giants, and other truly unrivaled business podcasts.”

“The company from that pitch, Fight Camp, is valued at several hundred million dollars today.”

“The pitch is starting a fund.”

“So we got 300,000 from Neil. That's 250 K from Mark puts you at 550,000. You've got a 100,000 coming from the pitch fund. That puts you at 650,000 dollars, which is I think the biggest investment we've ever had on the show.”

“There were these two investors in the studio with us that day, angel investors in our media company, actually. They invested 25,000 in AGS.”

“No, I was just gonna say, I know you're talking to different leads, but this actually is in model for us, so we would love to invest through the listeners of the show, a 150,000, and then if there's more room, potentially do a syndicate, so I don't know where …”

“We've heard what now, 12 or 14 pitches this season. He's the only person who's mentioned ROAS.”

“I invested in Vital Audio because of the show, and I will tell you that he is dead set on going B to B, and I would love for him to offer a consumer version of this product, and he just really doesn't want to do it.”