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Cam Doody

General Partner, Brickyard · 1 appearance on the record.

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Cam Doody is best known for co-founding Bellhop, a tech-enabled moving platform launched in 2011 that raised more than $90 million in venture backing. He is currently a general partner at Brickyard, an early-stage venture firm and residency program based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

17statements → 13claims → 6claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 3.88/5average certainty → 1.29/5average debate potential → 3said about them ↓

3 supported 3 partly supported 0 contradicted 7 not checkable as stated how the 13 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

13 assertions · 2 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 13 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 7 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 Cam 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
Doody: Bellhops pays movers $13 to $15 per hour
“We pay our bell off between 13 and 15 bucks an hour.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 10:29 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

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 Cam Doody on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Doody: Bellhops Generates 60% to 70% Gross Margins on Total Order Value
“So our margins are between 60 and 70% of total order value.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 6:52 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Supported
Doody: Bellhops pays movers $13 to $15 per hour
“We pay our bell off between 13 and 15 bucks an hour.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 10:29 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Insight
Doody: Broad advertising fails for moving because only 1% moves simultaneously
“If we were to buy billboards and things of that nature, you know, at any one time, you're only, You know, speaking to one percent of the population, because it's not like Uber or Postmates where everybody can use you at any one time, right?”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 13:56 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Partly supported
Doody: The traditional moving market is worth $20 billion
“The moving industry, the 25% of Americans that, that hire traditional movers is a twenty billion dollar space.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 17:46 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Insight
Doody: Moving is a 30-to-40-day process, not just one day
“Moving is not just moving day, right? It's like a 30 or 40 day process, and so before actual moving day, you are buying things on Craigslist, selling things on Craigslist, you're you are taking stuff to and from storage, you're, you are donating things to char…”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 18:18 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Doody: Bellhops Did $6M in Gross Revenue in 2015
“We, 2015, we did let's see, 14 would have been 15. We did six.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 5:09 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Disclosure
Doody: Bellhops Is Launching Its Own Truck Fleet
“Especially as we start launching our fleet of trucks, which is the next biggest strategic initiative for the company.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 5:33 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Supported
Bellhops charges around $40 per hour per mover
“We charge around, it depends on the market, but around 40 bucks an hour per bellhop.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 9:20 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bellhops generates around $50 contribution margin per order
“Contribution margin right now is around 50 bucks in order. And we, we've got a lot of things and with full service jobs, it's way higher than that.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 10:59 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bellhops achieves profitability on its first customer move via contribution margin
“We're a company that's profitable on the first move from a contribution margin.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 11:11 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Disclosure
Doody: Bellhops raised $13.5M Series B, reaching nearly $22M total
“We closed our series B then the last year and we raised 13 and a half. So today we've raised almost twenty two million.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 12:32 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Partly supported
US moving market splits into 40M DIY and 10M hiring movers
“We're splitting this market between the forty million do it yourself movers a year. And then there's the other ten million that are hiring movers.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 14:55 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Partly supported
Doody: 15,000 local moving companies operate in the US market
“There's 15,000 local moving companies.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 15:41 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Supported
Doody: Bellhops is operating across 85 cities
“You know, we're in 85 cities now.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 16:43 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Doody: Bellhops Generated About $400K in 2013 Sales
“We raised our seed round in late 2012. Okay. And so 13 was our first year and we did about 400 K in sales the first year.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 4:54 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Doody: Bellhops' Average Full-Service Move Costs Just Under $400
“So our average full service move is currently right under 400 bucks.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 7:18 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Doody: Bellhops' 2015 Average Order Value Was Around $170
“And so last year, our average order value is, was closer to like a 170 bucks.”
Cam Doody Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 8:27 EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.com

The other half of the tape: Cam Doody's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 1 episode on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 419: 30 yo does $6m 2015, taking over $5b+ Moving Industry with Cam Doody of Bellhops.c Sep 16, 2016 14m
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