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Chris Brusnicki

Founder, Bruiser Trucking · 1 appearance on the record.

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founderoperatorinvestor@ChrisBrusznicki ↗LinkedIn ↗bruisertrucking.com ↗

A decorated U.S. Army paratrooper and former Goldman Sachs associate, he founded the vacation rental marketplace Vaystays. He currently operates Bruiser Trucking and invests via private real estate firm Bronson Lee Partners.

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0 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 6 assertions · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 6 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 Chris argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Brusnicki: Professional managers oversee 55% of all vacation homes globally
“These vacation rental management companies make up 55% of all of the vacation homes you would think about in, in the world.”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 2:50 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki

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

Assertion Contradicted
Brusnicki: Professional managers oversee 55% of all vacation homes globally
“These vacation rental management companies make up 55% of all of the vacation homes you would think about in, in the world.”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 2:50 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
Insight
Brusnicki: Vacation rentals require precise matching, unlike commoditized rideshare inventory
“Uber is selling, is helping connect people to commoditize products. So you don't care which car you go into, but we have people that are hell bent on finding a heated, A saltwater pool that's facing a certain direction for the home they're going to rent. So ev…”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 9:42 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brusnicki: VayStays added $10M in transaction volume this month via SaaS
“So we've just slapped on ten million dollars in transaction volume this month, simply by adjusting our products slightly and making it into a hosted solution for some of our users.”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 11:09 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brusnicki: VayStays hopes to add $100M in transaction volume within months
“We've been able to, like, just from rolling out our products, bolt on ten million dollars in transaction volume, and we hope to bolt on a hundred million in the next couple months here.”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 23:22 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
Disclosure
Brusnicki: VayStays does $5M in GMV with a 13% commission rate
“The marketplace proudly is doing around Five million in transactions and we earn a commission of around 13% on every transaction we make.”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 4:20 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brusnicki: VayStays has roughly doubled transaction volume yearly since 2010
“In our first year we did a 100,000 dollars in transactions as like a test marketplace that we set up while we still had our full-time jobs. And then we've just about doubled the marketplace volume every year since then.”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 4:54 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brusnicki: VayStays average booking is $2,000, ranging up to $45,000
“2000 dollars on average, but we have properties all the way down to, we've done bookings as small as a hundred dollars total. And that includes everything, taxes, fees, cleaning fee, et cetera, all the way up to 45,000 dollars for five day stay.”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 6:12 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brusnicki: VayStays marketplace accounts for only 5% of client volume
“But right now we only represent five percent of their volume.”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 13:29 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brusnicki: VayStays has 20,000 total rental units across its managers
“So the actual average is 10 per property manager, but it's a 20,000 units total.”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 15:25 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
Disclosure
Brusnicki: VayStays raised $1.5M to expand its SaaS marketplace
“We recently raised a million and a half dollars to go after this SaaS concept and grow the marketplace out.”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 18:51 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
Disclosure
Brusnicki: VayStays turned down buyout offers of $2M to $3M
“A few companies have approached us to buy our technology, buy our brand names for a couple million dollars and we've turned them down.”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 20:12 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
Disclosure
Brusnicki: VayStays charges 8.5% to sellers and variable fees to travelers
“We take an eight and a half percent commission from the seller and then a commission from the traveler that just depends on the size of the booking volume. The percentage depends on the size of the booking. So if it's a very small transaction, say like a hundr…”
Chris Brusnicki Nov 11, 2016 ▶ 8:15 EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with Nov 11, 2016 18m
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