Sterling Smith

Founder & CEO, RightMatch AI · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sterling Smith previously founded the development agency Keystoke and the mobile app platform Sandbox Commerce, later serving as Managing Director for Atento Capital's Northwest Arkansas hub. Today, he leads RightMatch AI, an automated candidate interviewing and hiring platform.

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10 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 7 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 Sterling argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Smith: 60% of the Top 500 Internet Retailers Lack Mobile Apps
“If you're looking at the IR 500, which is a sampling of the top 500 retailers in the market, 60% of those retailers don't have a mobile app.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:41 #19 Sandbox

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: James Altucher Ghosted Sandbox Commerce After His On-Air Offer
“Yeah, so we, nothing happened. James has not invested yet.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 30:10 #19 Sandbox
Assertion Contradicted
Smith: 60% of the Top 500 Internet Retailers Lack Mobile Apps
“If you're looking at the IR 500, which is a sampling of the top 500 retailers in the market, 60% of those retailers don't have a mobile app.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:41 #19 Sandbox
Assertion Contradicted
Smith: Sandbox Commerce Is the Only Fully Native Retail App Builder
“We are the only company that builds fully native apps.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 7:58 #19 Sandbox
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: Retailers Harvest Valuable Consumer Data Even From Deleted Apps
“A customer doesn't need to keep the app on their phone. A customer simply needs to log in one time, and you've got that valuable data. They can download the app register one time and delete the app and you've got the data.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:41 #19 Sandbox
Opinion
Smith: Sandbox Commerce Targets a $36 Billion Total Addressable Market
“So the total addressable addressable market, our addressable market is six, is thirty six billion dollars currently right now.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 18:11 #19 Sandbox
Assertion Partly supported
Smith: Only 2% of Retailers Currently Have Mobile Applications
“Two percent of retailers have mobile applications right now.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:27 #19 Sandbox
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: Mid-Market Retailers Spend $250,000 on First-Year App Development
“If you are a retailer and you want to build a mobile app, in the case of a smaller retailer who's generating a million dollars or more in revenue. That retailer is spending a quarter of a million dollars the first year to build that mobile application.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:59 #19 Sandbox
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: Major Brands Like Macy's Spend $1M+ Per App Store
“A brand like Cabela's or Macy's is spending at least a million dollars per app store today.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 7:12 #19 Sandbox
Insight
Smith: 20% of Retail App Users Generate 80% of Brand Revenue
“The 20% of folks that download the apps, tip a brand's app is the brand enthusiast. They're already following them on Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. And that, that 20% typically generates 80% of the revenue.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:20 #19 Sandbox
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: Sandbox Commerce Is Exactly 20 Customers Away From Profitability
“The reason why we're raising two 50 is because we are 20 customers away from being profitable. 20 customers.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:29 #19 Sandbox
Disclosure
Smith Accepts James Altucher's On-Air Investment Offer
“Oh. I accept your offer.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 25:09 #19 Sandbox
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: Sandbox Commerce Saves Retailers Six Months and $250,000
“Our platform helps those retailers save, you know, six months and nearly 250,000 dollars.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 3:53 #19 Sandbox
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: Sandbox Commerce Has 10 Paying Customers and $5k MRR
“So we've got eight, eight, eight on beta. We've got 10 paying customers. ... 5000 a month.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 17:14 #19 Sandbox
Disclosure
Smith: Sandbox Commerce Is Raising a $250,000 Bridge Round
“We're raising, so we're raising a bridge round effectively to focus on sales and marketing sales and marketing and at two 50 right now. And we've already got a hundred committed.”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:07 #19 Sandbox
Disclosure
Smith: Structure Capital Evaluates Sandbox Commerce's Bridge or Priced Round
“The discussion we're actively having with a structure is You know, do we come in in this round, potentially, or do we come in in your price round in in the first quarter of 2018? And so that's and it's, so that's a, and they've been incredibly responsive. We'v…”
Sterling Smith Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 34:25 #19 Sandbox

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

Statements about Sterling Smith, by other people (1)

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gulati: Sandbox Commerce Will See a Markup With 20 More Customers
“If this guy, if he hits profitability, this thing gets marked up, you know, once he hits 20 customers.”
Daniel Gulati Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 25:46 #19 Sandbox

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
#19 Sandbox Mar 3, 2025 13m
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