Ryan Husk

Lead of Partnerships, Pulley · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ryan Husk founded Culture Force, a platform facilitating curated team experiences to improve workplace culture, which he pitched on The Pitch. He subsequently managed business development and strategic partnerships at Twitter and Crunchbase before joining equity and cap table management platform Pulley.

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Disclosure
Husk admits CultureForce's custom Shopify build is not a technical differentiator
“We've, I've built custom code on top of Shopify. So the platform itself is not something that is going to differentiate us right now.”
Ryan Husk Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 7:22 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour
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CultureForce grew gross revenue from $500 to $45,000 in one month
“We've gone from less than 500 dollars in gross revenue to over 45,000 dollars in booked gross revenue just this last month.”
Ryan Husk Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 3:55 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour
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CultureForce counts Uber, Google, and Facebook among its early customers
“We're working with companies like Uber, like Google, Facebook, and what they're telling us is that they want more.”
Ryan Husk Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 4:06 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour
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CultureForce tracks employee engagement metrics over time after team-building events
“In terms of differentiation, one thing that we do that is extremely different from any of our competition is that we're actually tracking metrics to understand the internal level of employee satisfaction over time while doing these events, in addition to produ…”
Ryan Husk Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 4:56 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour
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Husk lost all three employees in one week, then generated $26K solo
“We actually were able to complete the raise. We did a 160,000 dollars. And in that same week, we were a four person team. I lost all three of my employees. And so in June, when we started making money for the very first time, we made gross revenue, transacted,…”
Ryan Husk Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 15:27 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour
Disclosure
CultureForce pauses its seed round to build a multi-quarter track record
“And for me, I think it makes more sense. And, you know, my investors agreed that Let's have sound data behind that. Let's have a track record of, you know, one or two quarters. Let's have this built and make sure it's effective. And then let's go out and look …”
Ryan Husk Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 24:08 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour
Disclosure
CultureForce is raising $750,000 to scale its team-building platform
“So we're raising 750,000 dollars so that we can Take this platform, scale it, meet the demand, and take advantage of this incredible opportunity in front of us.”
Ryan Husk Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 4:13 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour
Disclosure
CultureForce seeks seed funding at a negotiable $6M valuation cap
“We're raising a six million cap, but that's negotiable.”
Ryan Husk Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 4:26 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour
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CultureForce takes a 20% vendor discount and a 10% client markup
“Our standard structure is 20% discount from the vendor, 10% markup to the client.”
Ryan Husk Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 5:25 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour

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Insight
Hudson: Founders cannot win philosophical debates with VCs during pitches
“Like, that's not a winnable argument as an entrepreneur. What was a winnable argument was he could have told us a lot more, but let me tell you about the actual value that I'm delivering for both sides of the marketplace.”
Charles Hudson Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 22:54 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour
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CultureForce angels commit an additional $75,000 following the pitch
“Those angel investors agreed and put in another 75,000 dollars to the CultureForce cause.”
Josh Muccio Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 27:03 #59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour

Appearances (1)

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#59 Disrupting Work Happy Hour Mar 3, 2025 11m
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