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Assertion Partly supported
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.”
Capella Kerst Aug 21, 2024 ▶ 5:24 Stanford Engineer: Gecko-Inspired Space Velcro
Assertion Partly supported
Kerst: Gecko Materials deploys on the ISS and lands major enterprise clients
“We're currently on the International Space Station. Honda, Ford, Toyota, GE, Intel, Hyundai are just to name a few of our seven of our customers here on Earth.”
Capella Kerst Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 4:20 Season 12 Finale: What Happened After The Pitch?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kerst: Gecko Materials counts Honda, Ford, Toyota, GE, Intel, and Hyundai as customers
“Honda, Ford, Toyota, GE, Intel, Hyundai are just to name a few of our seven of our customers here on Earth.”
Capella Kerst Aug 21, 2024 ▶ 2:29 Stanford Engineer: Gecko-Inspired Space Velcro
Assertion Partly supported
Kerst: Gecko Materials is on the ISS and under paid Space Force contract
“We've completed two Air Force and Space Force contracts, and we are on the International Space Station, and we're actually in now a standalone, it's not a grant, it's actually a contract in which they're paying with the Space Force right now.”
Capella Kerst Aug 21, 2024 ▶ 5:57 Stanford Engineer: Gecko-Inspired Space Velcro
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kerst: Gecko Materials will reach 88% profit margins within two years
“In the next two years, we'll be at 88% profit margins.”
Capella Kerst Aug 21, 2024 ▶ 6:47 Stanford Engineer: Gecko-Inspired Space Velcro
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kerst: Gecko Materials will reach $80M ARR within five years
“So we are two X-ing our revenue this year, 3.8 X-ing the following year. And then end of five years, we will be ARR of eighty million. And that is based solely upon our current paying customers only and their LOIs that are located in the data room.”
Capella Kerst Aug 21, 2024 ▶ 9:53 Stanford Engineer: Gecko-Inspired Space Velcro
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kerst: Gecko Materials did $727k in 2023 revenue and is on track to double it in 2024
“We did 727,000 in revenue last year in 23, and we're on track to doubling it this year.”
Capella Kerst Aug 21, 2024 ▶ 2:44 Stanford Engineer: Gecko-Inspired Space Velcro
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kerst: Gecko Materials is currently 10x the price of Command Strips by area
“Well, actually right now it is only 10 times more expensive than command strips if you're doing area per string.”
Capella Kerst Aug 21, 2024 ▶ 8:09 Stanford Engineer: Gecko-Inspired Space Velcro
Assertion Contradicted
Kerst: Gecko Materials is working with the US Navy on underwater gripping
“So there is applications that we're working with the Navy in that sense, in which you are going to have a gripper that's obviously not on string.”
Capella Kerst Aug 21, 2024 ▶ 8:42 Stanford Engineer: Gecko-Inspired Space Velcro
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