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Beate Chelette

Founder, The Women's Code · 1 appearance on the record.

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Chelette bootstrapped the stock photography syndication agency BeateWorks and sold it to Bill Gates' Corbis in 2006. Today, she guides leaders through her consultancy and authored Happy Woman Happy World: How to Go from Overwhelmed to Awesome.

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5 assertions · 1 opinion · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 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 Beate argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Bill Gates sold Corbis outright to a Chinese company in 2016
“Well, you know, Bill Gates has several businesses that he owns himself, and Corbis, that actually was just sold about six weeks ago to a Chinese company that was one of the businesses he owned himself outright.”
Beate Chelette Jun 14, 2016 ▶ 4:00 EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Beate Chelette on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Beate Chelette said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Visual China's Corbis acquisition effectively gives Getty Images a monopoly
“Which now effectively puts a monopoly in the hand of Getty Images more or less, which is why the industry is very upset.”
Beate Chelette Jun 14, 2016 ▶ 4:25 EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates
Assertion Partly supported
Chelette: Buying a NYT or WSJ bestseller status costs $250k to $500k
“Well, it's, if it's only 60,000, the truth of the matter is you want a New York Times or Wall Street Journal bestseller, it's costing you between two and 50,000 and a half a million dollars.”
Beate Chelette Jun 14, 2016 ▶ 10:38 EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chelette: Agency became industry leader licensing celebrity stories to 76 countries
“And suddenly, you know, we became the industry leader licensing these celebrity stories into 76 countries, and”
Beate Chelette Jun 14, 2016 ▶ 3:09 EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates
Assertion Supported
Bill Gates sold Corbis outright to a Chinese company in 2016
“Well, you know, Bill Gates has several businesses that he owns himself, and Corbis, that actually was just sold about six weeks ago to a Chinese company that was one of the businesses he owned himself outright.”
Beate Chelette Jun 14, 2016 ▶ 4:00 EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chelette's photography agency reached $1M in revenue before its Corbis acquisition
“We had done, we were at about a million dollars in revenue.”
Beate Chelette Jun 14, 2016 ▶ 4:42 EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chelette secured exclusive global licensing rights without actually owning the images
“I didn't own any of the images, but I had contracts that gave me the exclusive worldwide rights for a significant period of time to that content. And I was the only person allowed to resell or relicense these all over the world.”
Beate Chelette Jun 14, 2016 ▶ 5:08 EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates Jun 14, 2016 11m
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