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Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
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Impalameni: There are an estimated 100 million DJs worldwide
“So there's an estimated hundred million DJs around the world.”
Mullen: Copper Cow is the only US importer of high-end Vietnamese coffee
“I would say that I'm the only person who's really bringing high-end Vietnamese coffee to the U.S.”
Kesserwani: Cushion secures fee refunds for 80% of users
“80% of the folks who we fought fees for have gotten money back in some capacity.”
Kesserwani: Cushion recovers 30 cents per disputed dollar
“For every dollar that we're fighting, we're getting 30 cents back right now, but we're being very aggressive because we're trying to train the model and figure out what works and what doesn't.”
Kesserwani: Competitor Albert cannot take direct account actions
“No, they can't. They cannot take actions within the user's account.”
Burton: Missing class in the first two weeks leads to failing
“If you miss any amount of time in the first two weeks of class,
You are not going to complete or pass that class.”
Soininen: No HotelTonight or OpenTable for sports exists globally
“In the world, like there isn't anything like hotel tonight or open table for sports that doesn't exist anywhere in the world, really.”
Hedges: Food-grade organic ingredients have never been used in beauty before
“We use food grade, which has not been done before in the beauty industry, organic ingredients.”
Dawn Dickson claims none of her businesses have ever failed
“I've never failed. None of my business has ever failed.”
Rosenblum: Lunar Wireless Takes 11-Cent Margin on 25-Cent App Purchases
“On like a regular app, we'll do like 11 cents on a 25 cent purchase.”
Rosenblum: Lunar Wireless Has OEM Direct-Shipping Agreements Beyond BLU
“The real solution is this whole innovative model of shipping directly from the OEM, which by the way, Blue is not the only one who's agreed to it. Blue is the only one I could talk about.”
Smith: Sandbox Commerce Is the Only Fully Native Retail App Builder
“We are the only company that builds fully native apps.”
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.”
Manus: Millennials buy vinyl for audio quality, not tangibility
“That's not true, because if you ask millennials, the millennials that are buying the vinyls are actually buying them for the quality. Because millennials are more music-centric than ever, than any general, you know.”
Agrawal: THINX reached $50M in revenue under my leadership
“Yeah, we did fifty million under my leadership.”
Sonnad: Tesla executives are aware of Tesloop's commercial Supercharger use
“As of right now, they haven't drawn that line, and we are, in somewhat collaborating with Tesla, they're aware of what's happening, they're aware we're using it for commercial use, and right now they haven't said anything about that, and there are a lot of peo…”
Sonnad: Tesla's autonomous rideshare restriction does not ban Tesloop
“I don't know the exact details, but that, that announcement wasn't fully true because it doesn't actually eliminate us from using their autonomous ride sharing. There's some weird clauses in there that actually do let us proceed with everything that we're doin…”
Zloof: Sudden Coffee's subscriber count fell from 500 to 400
“So our peak was in or July, we had 500 subscribers. I think now we're closer to 400.”
Diamond: Our Post-Seed Cohort Delivered 2X to 2.5X Markups in 12 Months
“And we started seeing this crazy performance From this particular cohort of companies that we were investing in, anywhere from like, two X to 2.5 X over the course of 12 months from when we invested to Series A.”
Manus: There Are More Concussions in Soccer Than Football
“There are more concussions in soccer than there are in football.”
Josh Muccio: Only one percent of venture capital goes to Black founders
“And when you look at what VCs do with their money, just one percent of it goes to black founders.”
Rios: Bridgefy leads offline communications by millions of users with no active rivals
“And I cleared up that that competitor hasn't operated. They stopped existing in 2018, and this space is not crowded at all. We are the market leader by millions of users.”
Kayla Epps: Under 1% of venture capital goes to Black founders
“I mean, you hear horror stories, and I'll be candid, I mean, less than, what, one percent of VC dollars go to Black founders, and I think it's even smaller for Black women founders, so I was under no assumptions that it was going to be an easy ride.”
Banister: Geographic Limits on CT Scanners Exist Purely to Block Competition
“There's a certain number of CT scanners you can have in a certain block or like space in a town. It's not for radiation. It's not for any reason like that. It's just so that they don't have competition.”
Movsisian: No analytics solution exists for generative AI user feedback
“There is no solution to handle this for AI slash generative AI.”
Chad Wilson: Building-level school discretionary sales close within a week
“Right now, the money's coming from discretionary budget that is school building level. And so these processes are much faster than the traditional school sales cycle. They're frequently done within a week.”
Rios: 180,000 Devices Connected Concurrently via BridgeFi Offline
“Our record is a 180,000 devices using our technology at the same place at the same time, without a single one needing access to the internet, without a single one, no exception, no small print.”
Calvin: FDA stated Vital Audio is first vocal-frequency tech encountered
“The FDA has actually shared that it's the first technology that they have encountered that takes in vocal frequencies or signals.”
Kerst: Gecko Materials cut adhesive production time from 48 hours to 15 minutes
“It would take over 48 hours to make one unit. Because of the invention and my patent, we can make it in under 15 minutes.”
LearnVest got millions of users spending only tens of thousands on marketing
“And Josh, we spent nothing on marketing. It wasn't like we had a million dollar a year marketing budget. We spent Tens of thousands of dollars. Nothing in the rearview mirror to build a user base of millions of users.”
Sánchez: 70% of Mexican SMBs Are Profitable When Bankrupt
“Did you know that 70% of all SMBs in Mexico are actually profitable when they go bankrupt?”
Sánchez: CredFeed's default write-off rate is 0.5% vs. 12% industry average
“Default, like, write-offs that we have done, it's 0.5% today. The industries, it's 12% in Mexico.”
Sánchez: Mandatory Mexican e-invoicing makes unpaid factoring a criminal fraud
“We track every single invoice on real-time due to the electronic invoicing being mandatory in Mexico, so we know the status of every invoice on real-time. So if they get paid by their customer and they don't pay us, that's considered fraud. So that's a crimina…”
Sánchez: CredFeed needs only 5,000 of Mexico's 770,000 manufacturers for $100M ARR
“Today there are 770,000 manufacturing companies just in Mexico. We only need 5000 to get to a hundred million dollars in annual recurring revenue to be a billion dollar company with the average revenue that we're generating today with our current users.”
Kennison: Heatless Curlers Are Number Two Beauty Product Trend
“I've seen this market go from nothing to being the number two beauty product trend out of all the beauty products out there. More heatless curlers are being bought than any other beauty product out there.”
Yin: Data shows consumers prefer aspirational models over seeing themselves
“Actually, there's data showing that people don't like that. They would much rather be somebody more beautiful. Yeah, it's aspirational.”
Rose: FranShares had largest alt-investing launch with $18M in investments
“We launched last year and had the largest launch ever for an alternative investing platform with over eighteen million in investments, and we have 42,000 signups for our upcoming offerings.”
Kenny Rose: Mac Conwell passed on FranShares post-show over valuation
“You know, what happened was we have done a call
and he said, basically, you know, rounds too expensive.
We're not going to be able to get that ownership stake that we try and target.
So it's not going to be a fit.”
Brown: More Gen Z converted to Christianity than Millennials or prior generation
“Statistically, there are more Gen Z's that have converted to Christianity than there have been Millennials and the prior generation.”
Manus: Number one books in publishing are always faith-based
“And the number one books are always faith-based books.”
Ghai: Nectar generated a $35M sales pipeline in just 8 months
“Eight months ago, we launched Nectar to the World, and since then, I, as our one-woman sales and marketing team, have built a thirty-five million dollar pipeline, and we've already closed five campus-wide contracts from that, and now we're here to raise our th…”
Ghai: Nectar organically signs up 6,500 new UCSB students annually
“For the last three years that we've been on that campus, we get all 6500 new students to sign up with no marketing whatsoever.”
Robbins: Campus security blocks DoorDash after 10 p.m. while Handle couriers enter
“In the evenings, because of COVID, schools have gotten incredibly tight around who's allowed on campus. So if I'm a USC student, after 10 p.m., I actually can't get a DoorDash delivery, even to the building I'm in, much less my door. Because we're using studen…”
Young: 75% of Outlines buyers opt for a shower curtain subscription
“75% of our users subscribe to recurring deliveries at the point of purchase.”
Braima: African VC Funding Declines at Similar Rate to US
“When funding goes down in America, it goes down in Africa at the similar rate, right?”