Max Tuchman

Co-Founder and Former CEO, Caribu · 1 appearance on the record.

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Maxeme "Max" Tuchman is the co-founder and former CEO of Caribu, an interactive video-calling and reading app acquired by Mattel. She previously served as a White House Fellow at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Executive Director of Teach For America Miami-Dade.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 6 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 6 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.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Max argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Tuchman: Toyota gave Caribu a $50,000 grant and national ad spots
“Toyota gave us a 50,000 dollar grant and gave us a 2018 Toyota Camry commercial, and a New York Times banner ad that they ran throughout all of December.”
Max Tuchman Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:09 #34 Can Storytime Become Big Business?

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Everything Max Tuchman said on the Pitch that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tuchman: Caribu will reach $170K in monthly revenue by December
“About a 170,000 dollars.”
Max Tuchman Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 9:43 #34 Can Storytime Become Big Business?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tuchman: Caribu increased round to $1M with 80% committed
“We actually have increased our round to a million dollars, and we are 80% committed because people literally have been throwing cash at us.”
Max Tuchman Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:00 #34 Can Storytime Become Big Business?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tuchman: Caribu signed Sesame Street and Mattel among 20+ publishers
“We've got over 20 publishers right now, and we do it pretty well. I mean, they don't bother us that much that we, you know, send them their checks, and they're pretty happy. But we, I mean, we brought on at least five publishers since we pitched on your show, …”
Max Tuchman Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 25:08 #34 Can Storytime Become Big Business?
Disclosure
Tuchman: Caribu is seeking $500,000 in funding
“We are seeking 500,000 dollars to change the world.”
Max Tuchman Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 2:24 #34 Can Storytime Become Big Business?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tuchman: Caribu has double-digit MoM growth and an 85% renewal rate
“We have had double digit month over month growth since August. We have an 85% renewal rate of our subscribers.”
Max Tuchman Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 5:42 #34 Can Storytime Become Big Business?
Assertion Supported
Tuchman: Toyota gave Caribu a $50,000 grant and national ad spots
“Toyota gave us a 50,000 dollar grant and gave us a 2018 Toyota Camry commercial, and a New York Times banner ad that they ran throughout all of December.”
Max Tuchman Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:09 #34 Can Storytime Become Big Business?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tuchman: Caribu partners with over 20 publishers on a 50/50 split
“We have relationships with over 20 publishers. Mattel, Usborn, Education.com, Santijana, the world's largest Spanish language publisher. So what we have with them, so back to this kind of revenue question, is we have a fifty-fifty revenue split with our publis…”
Max Tuchman Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:50 #34 Can Storytime Become Big Business?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tuchman: Caribu has about 160 paying subscribers
“So right now we're at about one 60.”
Max Tuchman Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 5:52 #34 Can Storytime Become Big Business?

The other half of the tape: Max Tuchman's own voice is left out of every number here. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Max Tuchman, by other people (1)

Insight
Hyatt: Caribu has no technical moat; publisher rights are all that matters
“We all know we can have five developers do it in five months. It's, if she has the publishers... It doesn't matter. She can have a worse product if she owns the publishers.”
Michael Hyatt Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:10 #34 Can Storytime Become Big Business?

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
#34 Can Storytime Become Big Business? Mar 3, 2025 9m
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