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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Assertion Contradicted
Wheaton: Wardrobe and Pickle aren't truly peer-to-peer and hold centralized inventory
“A lot of the examples that I've seen, for example, wardrobe or pickle, a lot of these very recent platforms that are popping up are not actually entirely peer-to-peer. They call themselves peer-to-peer, but they still have centralized closets where you pick up…”
Disclosure
Wheaton: Dressed is raising $1.5M to scale peer-to-peer rental model
“We're raising 1.5 million to scale our peer-to-peer model that is more efficient and more scalable than Rent the Runway.”
Disclosure
Hudson commits $25,000 investment to Dressed
“So I'd like to do 25 K.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wheaton: Dressed onboarded 16 sororities nationwide in its first month
“I believe in the first month since launch, we've onboarded 16 entire sororities all across the country.”
Disclosure
Wheaton: Dressed launching localized pickup beta at ASU in early 2024
“So first on the localized pickup, we are actually in the process of building that. We're launching it in January at ASU. That's going to be our first campus takeover that we're testing out the localized pickup in a beta version. So either January or February, …”
Disclosure
Capri Wheaton: Dressed takes a 15% commission per rental
“Our business model right now is a commission fee from each rental, so we take a 15% commission out of every transaction.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Capri Wheaton: Dressed has 300 dresses and 4,000 signups
“So we have about 300 dresses on now and about 4000 signups.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Capri Wheaton: Dressed went viral on TikTok with 2M views
“We have a video that has almost two million views, and so we got a lot of signups from that, but we only had about 25 dresses on the platform.”