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Allen: A VC told me I was "too young and too Black"
“I remember my first company, I actually had a venture MD pull me aside and tell me I was too young and too black to get funded. Like they weren't gonna listen.”
Muccio: James Altucher ghosted every founder he committed to on The Pitch
“He did that to every founder he committed to on our show, and he also did it to the show.”
Srinivasan Claims Spot On Is NYC's Most Profitable Ride-Hailing Company
“So we are actually the most profitable ride hailing company in New York City.”
Trenda: Good Talk is first since Instagram or Snap with celebrity PMF
“So we're the first company since Instagram or Snap to create product market fit with that segment of users.”
Josh Muccio: James Altucher never wrote checks to any Pitch founders
“He never actually wrote checks to any of the founders on our show.”
Clark: Atomos technology could get humans to Mars in 30 days
“Realized that the tech for this business could also get humans to Mars in 30 days.”
Smith: James Altucher Ghosted Sandbox Commerce After His On-Air Offer
“Yeah, so we, nothing happened. James has not invested yet.”
Forenza: Exclusive patents prevent competitors from measuring EEG via ear cuff
“There is a IP in the hardware itself, in the form factor, in the ear cuff.
Ben Zices: Is that protected?
Antonio Forenza: Yeah, we have, yeah.
Ben Zices: So nobody else can measure EEG with an ear cuff device.
Antonio Forenza: Yes.”
CurieDx's strep diagnostic is 88% accurate, beating physician visual evaluations
“The rapid swab that you traditionally do at the doctor's office, the one that comes back in 15 minutes, that's about 95% accurate, so it's good, but it's not perfect, and, ah, the, you know, physicians are 64%, so we are around 88% right now accuracy”
Canaris: CurieDx Proof-of-Concept UTI Model Achieves 88% Accuracy
“And we have, just on the proof of concept model, we have 88% accuracy on that.”
Material's proprietary nanomaterial blend eliminates the need for current collectors
“So our secret sauce is really our specialized nanomaterial blend that we developed in-house over the last couple years, and what this allows us to do is create batteries without current collectors. That's how we can make these conformable shapes.”
Castellanos: Science On Call is only company automating in Toast POS
“So as far as we know, we're actually the only people automating processes and in toast right now”
FolioWorks has access to 3 million students approved for Federal Work-Study
“So we partner with every college career center, and so we have access to all of their three million students that are approved for work study.”
Robbins: Handle stores generate more revenue and higher margins than typical 7-Elevens
“Our stores generate more revenue and a higher margin than a typical seven 11.”
Robbins: Handle's customer acquisition cost is under one dollar
“So our customer acquisition cost is actually under a dollar.”
Luke Barkley Young: Fabric shower liners release carcinogenic PFAS in showers
“The material you're talking about it isn't, it's not cloth. It's a polyester. It's covered in what's called a DWR, durable water resistant, which is made of a PFA, which is a highly carcinogenic forever chemical. And when you stand next to it in the shower, th…”
Luke Barkley Young: Outlines CAC dropped post-iOS update and remains profitable
“Post the iOS update, our CAC actually reduced, and it's continued to stay stable this year. So we're still first purchase profitable.”
Hershberg: Private equity controls three of Amateur Golf Society's five board seats
“So there's five board seats. There's three for the private equity guys, one for myself and one for the group of fellow Cornellians.”
Bsharah: PE offered VCs an observer seat and 18-month CEO retention guarantee
“They essentially said, They would give us a board observer seat and promise not to fire the CEO for 18 months.”
Besenval: Natrion's components eliminate fire risk, enabling 450-mile range and 15-minute charges
“The suite of patented battery components that we make eliminate fire risk and they can make an electric car drive as far as 450 miles on a single charge. We can charge in as little as 15 minutes.”
Besenval: Natrion's battery achieved 400 cycles with under two percent degradation
“We've gone out to 400 cycles with less than two percent degradation, and we have the columbic efficiencies we need to get to a thousand”
Muccio: Survey showed only 8% of Black applicants received federal relief funds
“A survey published in May found that only eight percent of African-American business owners that had applied for federal relief or assistance actually received the money.”
Andrew Hoagland says G2 Crowd pays for software reviews weekly
“Every week I get an email from G two crowd paying me to write reviews.”
Spencer Shulam: WeDo can predict whether a student will fail a class
“We, for example, can even today start predicting if a student's going to fail a class within the first few days of signing up for our product because we're able to see they're not marking off certain assignments, and we know other people who are just like them…”
Brandel: Hearken has a 70% customer retention rate
“So right now it's about 70% we retain. And what we've learned from the 30% that have been churning is actually the reason they stop working with us is because someone moves on from their job.”
Host Josh Muccio reveals James Altucher ghosted the show and founders
“We never heard back from him and to our knowledge, neither have any of the founders who pitched him on our show.”
Rosenblum: Lunar Wireless Patented Its Pay-Per-App Mobile Technology
“These deals are not super common and like all of the whole process of paying per app is patented. And so all of that is our core technology.”
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.”
Salhi: CDs remained the most gifted music format in 2016
“And 30%, the highest, the most gifted item today, in 2016, wait for it, is still the CD.”
Sonnad: Musk assured free lifetime Supercharging for Model S long-distance travel
“So I brought the idea up with Elon Musk at the shareholders meeting in 2015, and at that point he assured me that Tesla would pay for all of the fuel costs for long distance travel in the Model S forever.”
Muccio: Tesla will prohibit self-driving tech on third-party ride-sharing services
“They will not permit Tesla's self-driving technology to be used on any ride-sharing service except for their own.”
Sonnad: Tesloop exposes more people to Teslas than Tesla's marketing
“Well, how I see it, at least in the short run, we're really, we're doing Tesla a favor, because when you look at the numbers of Tesla's test drives, and how they're trying to get customers in their cars, we're actually introducing a lot more people into Tesla'…”
Meghan Carreau: Childhood obesity has nothing to do with socioeconomic status
“That's actually a common misconception, though, because there are lots of kids, you know, one out of three kids and one out of five developing OPC-related disease actually has nothing to do with socioeconomic.”
Chapman: Over Half of Founders Have Diagnosable Mental Health Issues
“It's 30% can be diagnosed with clinical depression. 30% can be diagnosed with ADHD. It's about 29% can be diagnosed with, like, problematic anxiety to, like, where a clinician would diagnose you with it. And there's some overlap that still ends up being, like,…”
Schwartz: Apple pulled Unglue from the App Store before launching Screen Time
“We actually were the first app that got pulled.”
Party Trick claims a $47 million enterprise sales pipeline for year one
“We have over 80 partners on our consumer platform that we've been talking to about this, and we actually have a forty-seven million dollar pipeline for year one.”
Jorge Rios: BridgeFi is the only company making Signal Protocol work offline
“We are the only company in the world that has managed to make the Signal Protocol work offline.”
Calvin: Vital Audio achieves 96% accuracy compared to gold standard ECG
“So we conducted two studies in partnerships with NYU Langone Cardiology Department and Zip Care Clinic. Reached more than 500 participants across the New York metropolitan area. The technology actually performs at 96% accuracy compared to gold Standard ECG.”
Ghai: Nectar usage increased class grade averages by a full letter
“Every single class that used Nectar Was able to increase the class average by a full letter grade.”
Robbins: Handel generates higher revenue and margins than typical 7-Elevens
“Our stores generate more revenue and a higher margin than a typical seven 11, and so we see the future as very bright for our business.”
Robbins: Handel's customer acquisition cost is under $1
“So our customer acquisition cost is actually under a dollar.”
Young: Fabric shower liners are coated with toxic PFAS forever chemicals
“The material you're talking about it isn't, it's not cloth. It's a polyester. It's covered in what's called a DWR, durable water resistant, which is made of a PFA, which is a highly carcinogenic forever chemical. And when you stand next to it in the shower, th…”
Young: Outlines' customer acquisition cost actually dropped post-iOS 14 update
“In fact, post the iOS update, our CAC actually reduced, and it's continued to stay stable this year. So we're still first purchase profitable.”
Lagunas: Levee converted world's largest hotel brand into an active customer
“Since we launched in July, we launched a paid pilot with the largest hotel brand in the world who is now an active customer.”
Lagunas: Levee has over $30 million in its sales pipeline
“We have over thirty million dollars in our sales pipeline right now from brands that are coming from all over the world to implement our solution.”
Forenza: Mapping arousal and valence biomarkers allows deriving all human emotions
“You have these two biomarkers that are arousal and valence. These are terms used in neuroscience. By mapping these two dimensions, you can derive all the different emotions.”
Forenza: EEG measures mental stress much more accurately than HRV-based wearables
“Exactly, because it's a measure of HRV. We tap into the central nervous system, which is where everything originates, and so we can have much, much higher accuracy, The real time component of EEG is phenomenal. We give you a sample of your emotion every second…”