John Gillen

Founder, Icarus · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jonathan "Jon" Gillon is the founder and CEO of Roost, a peer-to-peer parking and storage marketplace acquired by Spacer in 2017. He subsequently co-founded projects including Indisputable Labs and Icarus, and serves as an advisor and investor.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 4 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction 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 John 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
Zipcar and Enterprise are major commercial partners for Roost
“Looking at Zipcar and Enterprise, also who are big partners of ours.”
John Gillen Mar 10, 2016 ▶ 9:31 Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gillon predicts Roost's $2M seed round will price at $8M-$9M pre-money
“We, we're looking for a lead investor right now, but if I were to see the future, I'd say about eight or nine million.”
John Gillen Mar 10, 2016 ▶ 7:57 Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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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 John Gillen on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything John Gillen 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
Roost is growing monthly revenue at 35% to 40% month-over-month
“Yeah, we launched pretty quickly, and now we're growing about 35% a month, 40% a month actually.”
John Gillen Mar 10, 2016 ▶ 7:20 Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gillon predicts Roost's $2M seed round will price at $8M-$9M pre-money
“We, we're looking for a lead investor right now, but if I were to see the future, I'd say about eight or nine million.”
John Gillen Mar 10, 2016 ▶ 7:57 Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202
Disclosure
Roost charges a 15% monthly transaction fee on storage and parking
“So we take a 15% transaction fee Per month in perpetuity on these big transactions.”
John Gillen Mar 10, 2016 ▶ 6:02 Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roost generated $50,000 in top-line revenue in December 2015
“December of 2015, we did 50,000 dollars.”
John Gillen Mar 10, 2016 ▶ 6:54 Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202
Disclosure
Roost raised $1.46M in notes before pursuing a $2M priced round
“So we did a 160,000 dollars convertible note, then we did a 300,000 dollar convertible note, and then we did a million dollar convertible note, and now we're doing a price round. I'm raising two million dollars right now on a price feed round.”
John Gillen Mar 10, 2016 ▶ 7:38 Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202
Assertion Supported
Zipcar and Enterprise are major commercial partners for Roost
“Looking at Zipcar and Enterprise, also who are big partners of ours.”
John Gillen Mar 10, 2016 ▶ 9:31 Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gillon found his technical co-founder via a $75 TaskRabbit introduction ad
“So what I did was I actually put out an ad on TaskRabbit, back when, you know, you could do anything on TaskRabbit, you didn't have to be a professional and I put out an ad on TaskRabbit saying, seeking introduction to a technical person with an entrepreneuria…”
John Gillen Mar 10, 2016 ▶ 10:21 Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202
Disclosure
Gillon raised $35,000 total across all of his failed startup businesses
“For all the businesses about, it's probably about 35,000 dollars.”
John Gillen Mar 10, 2016 ▶ 4:12 Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202
Disclosure
Gillon funded a past startup via Airbnb rentals for early profitability
“Droperty tax, I actually funded via Airbnb. And I was renting out my place on Airbnb and funding the business, and we're profitable pretty quickly.”
John Gillen Mar 10, 2016 ▶ 4:27 Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202 Mar 10, 2016 9m
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