Samaritan, every mention

#63 Can A Startup Solve Homelessness? Mar 3, 2025 · 30 mentions

• ▶ 0:26 Josh Muccio Founder Jonathan Kumar is here asking our investors for one million dollars for his startup, Samaritan, which Jonathan says can help solve homelessness.
• ▶ 2:44 Jonathan Kumar Samaritan provides these incredible free digital wallets designed for people without a home.
• ▶ 7:18 Jonathan Kumar So this helps keep people in and above the surface so that when their name is called, nonprofits can actually use Samaritan together to like contact an individual to see like, 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 10:38 Josh Muccio And Jonathan's basically saying he's not expecting Samaritan to make heaps of money. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 11:12 Josh Muccio We just heard Jonathan's opening pitch for Samaritan, a startup that's meant to address the problem of homelessness. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 13:31 Phil Nadel I don't mind investing in public benefit companies, but this just seems to be too much like a non-profit. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 16:45 Josh Muccio Gillian is in, and she's really connected with the idea of Samaritan. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 18:43 Josh Muccio After the break, we're going to dig into this question with Jillian and Michael and find out if any of this changes Jonathan's thinking on Samaritan.
• ▶ 19:12 Josh Muccio A couple months after the pitch, we followed up with Jillian to see if her views on whether Samaritan should be a for-profit company or a nonprofit had changed at all, now that she'd spent a little bit more time with the company. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 23:26 Josh Muccio Heather and I took Michael's issues with Samaritan to Jonathan to get his response. 3 times in the scene