Jared Kugel

Founder & CEO, Tire Agent · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jared Kugel is the founder and CEO of Tire Agent, an online tire and wheel retailer offering smart recommendations, financing options, and installation partnerships. After working over a decade in his family's tire business, he grew Tire Agent into an Inc. 5000-ranked company generating over $100 million in revenue.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 2 opinions · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Kugel: The tire industry sells 252 million tires annually, worth $30B

“So there's two hundred and fifty two million tires sold every year. So people automatically, they perk up, right? So it's a thirty billion dollar industry.”

Jared Kugel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:27 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?

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Opinion

Kugel: Amazon has tried to enter tires and failed to figure it out

“And you have companies like Amazon trying to get into tires, and they have not really figured it out.”

Jared Kugel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:34 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?

Disclosure

Kugel: Tire Agent is raising on a $10M convertible note

“So we're doing a ten million dollar convertible note.”

Jared Kugel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:38 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?

Opinion

Kugel: Mobile tire competitors lack pricing knowledge and distributor connections

“So where we're different is a lot of them really don't buy tires at the right price because they don't know the cost of the distributors. And so I do, that was an advantage that I had coming into it. Plus I have a lot more connections than a typical tire shop …”

Jared Kugel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 3:28 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Kugel: Tire Agent can make $100K profit per truck

“I believe you can make about a 100,000 dollars a truck in profit, not including if I add wheels.”

Jared Kugel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:03 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?

Assertion Supported

Kugel: The tire industry sells 252 million tires annually, worth $30B

“So there's two hundred and fifty two million tires sold every year. So people automatically, they perk up, right? So it's a thirty billion dollar industry.”

Jared Kugel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:27 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Kugel: Tire Agent captures 25% gross margin on retail tires

“The average cost is typically a hundred bucks on a tire retail. Our margin's about 25%. That's what we make. We make 25 bucks. The remainder goes to the distributor or manufacturer.”

Jared Kugel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 7:25 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?

Disclosure

Kugel: Tire Agent recently raised capital at a $3M valuation

“I didn't really have much of a choice because I had just raised money at a three.”

Jared Kugel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 11:13 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?

Disclosure

Kugel: Tire Agent subcontracts all tire installers from mobile installation companies

“Right now, all of our installers are subcontracted of other mobile installation companies that we're working with, and that industry has been very fragmented, and now I'm kind of converting them into an actual tire shop, but we're the customer experience.”

Jared Kugel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 2:29 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?

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Statements about Jared Kugel, by other people (2)

Opinion

Michael Hyatt: Tire Agent works best as a cash-flow lifestyle business

“I think this is the most amazing lifestyle business. This guy understands how to work that New York market. He could get out a million bucks of free cash flow a year. He could pay all his investors. He could make three, 400 grand a year and be very happy.”

Michael Hyatt Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 17:15 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?

Opinion

Hyatt: Tire Agent's valuation is likely no higher than its prior round

“Really, your valuation is probably not much more than what you just did, and really what you should be looking for is, is, is probably strategic investors that'll help you and make these introductions and what have you.”

Michael Hyatt Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:26 #33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
#33 What Is a Startup Actually Worth?	Mar 3, 2025	5m

Jared Kugel

The record, in short

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Statements about Jared Kugel, by other people (2)

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