Brian Verne

Founder and CEO, Wave Sports + Entertainment · 1 appearance on the record.

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Brian Verne is the founder and CEO of Wave Sports + Entertainment, a digital sports media and entertainment company. Prior to Wave, he was the co-founder and CEO of Phenom, a mobile platform connecting youth and high school athletes with sporting brands.

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4 assertions · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is 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

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Verne: Phenom moved from Cleveland to SF and joined 500 Startups

“And even if you asked me, you know, four months ago, would I be in San Francisco right now? And we were still in Cleveland. We had just come off our best quarter ever. And I would have told you were crazy. So it's just kind of funny how things work. And you kn…”

Brian Verne Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 21:02 $700k Raised For App That Connects Brands to High School Athletes With Brian Verne of Phantom EP 210

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said9 Episodes1

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Insight

Verne: Sports brands crave high school athletes over pro influencers

“The brands and the marketers and the retailers are no longer just placing a, you know, value on pro athletes as being influencers. In fact, they absolutely crave the high school athlete segment, but the problem that they have is reaching young athletes at a gr…”

Brian Verne Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 3:45 $700k Raised For App That Connects Brands to High School Athletes With Brian Verne of Phantom EP 210

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Phenom has about 60,000 high school athlete users

“So we have about 60,000 high school athletes that are using the platform.”

Brian Verne Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 6:06 $700k Raised For App That Connects Brands to High School Athletes With Brian Verne of Phantom EP 210

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Phenom peaked at over 25,000 monthly active users in early 2016

“Our general, you know, monthly actives are anywhere from, you know, in the tens of thousands all the way up to, we had, you know, over 25,000 monthly actives you know, in the last in the last quarter at one point.”

Brian Verne Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 6:36 $700k Raised For App That Connects Brands to High School Athletes With Brian Verne of Phantom EP 210

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Phenom users have tagged over 250,000 products to their profiles

“Our users have added over 250,000 products to their phenom profiles”

Brian Verne Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 7:11 $700k Raised For App That Connects Brands to High School Athletes With Brian Verne of Phantom EP 210

Disclosure

Verne: Phenom has raised over $700k including 500 Startups

“So overall, we've raised a little over 700,000 between some notes and some equity, and then, you know, now we're in 500 startups you know, batch 16 here in San Francisco, and so that, you know, that comes with you know, a small investment as well.”

Brian Verne Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 11:56 $700k Raised For App That Connects Brands to High School Athletes With Brian Verne of Phantom EP 210

Disclosure

Brian Verne takes a $30k founder salary and often foregoes pay

“About 30,000 bucks a year, and there are many times where we haven't paid ourselves.”

Brian Verne Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 12:37 $700k Raised For App That Connects Brands to High School Athletes With Brian Verne of Phantom EP 210

What-if

Knowing startup difficulties early would have caused Brian Verne to quit

“I don't necessarily wish I knew this, because I think we probably would have quit, even during our first startup, but just how difficult, you know, it really is to, you know, build a business, and, you know, to grow it, and to see it scale, and, you know, to d…”

Brian Verne Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 20:14 $700k Raised For App That Connects Brands to High School Athletes With Brian Verne of Phantom EP 210

Disclosure

Verne: Instagram is the core driver of Phenom's business and growth

“Instagram is, is essentially the basis of our business and how we grow our community.”

Brian Verne Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 16:02 $700k Raised For App That Connects Brands to High School Athletes With Brian Verne of Phantom EP 210

Assertion Supported

Verne: Phenom moved from Cleveland to SF and joined 500 Startups

Brian Verne Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 21:02 $700k Raised For App That Connects Brands to High School Athletes With Brian Verne of Phantom EP 210

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
$700k Raised For App That Connects Brands to High School Athletes With Brian Verne of Phan	Mar 30, 2016	13m

Brian Verne

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