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John Rampton

Founder & CEO, Due · 1 appearance on the record.

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John Rampton is an entrepreneur best known for founding the payments company Due and co-founding Calendar. He writes on marketing and productivity for outlets such as Entrepreneur and Forbes, and co-authored Self-Employed: 50 Signs That You Might Be An Entrepreneur.

12statements → 9claims → 2claims resolved → 3.83/5average certainty → 1.75/5average debate potential → 2said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 2 not yet assessed 5 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

9 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed, and 5 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
Rampton: Due paid $130,000 to acquire Due.com domain name
“I mean, just the domain alone, do.com. I mean, we paid a 130,000 for it.”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 10:33 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Rampton: Pixloo patent covered 360-degree photos and was widely infringed
“Yeah, so there was a technology, primarily we owned a patent. Or, I mean, that was probably our biggest asset was we owned a patent where if you take a camera and spin it 360 degrees. We own that patent. So pretty much. Yeah. Any photographer in the world has …”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 12:08 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton

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

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

Disclosure
Rampton aims to monopolize payments and bankrupt rivals PayPal and Venmo
“You know, ultimately do want to monopolize it and put some of those guys out of business, obviously, or have them acquire us mainly put them out of business. We don't, our goal is not to be acquired.”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 9:02 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
Assertion Contradicted
Rampton: Pixloo patent covered 360-degree photos and was widely infringed
“Yeah, so there was a technology, primarily we owned a patent. Or, I mean, that was probably our biggest asset was we owned a patent where if you take a camera and spin it 360 degrees. We own that patent. So pretty much. Yeah. Any photographer in the world has …”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 12:08 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Due rejected a multi-million-dollar acquisition offer weeks after launch
“Like we've already had like one company approach us and be like, Hey, you know, would you guys be interested in selling them? You know, can you know, seriously go down that road to the point where they were making serious offers. I mean, they gave us a lawyer …”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 9:21 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
Opinion
Rampton: Patents inhibit natural human innovation despite being lucrative
“You know, I have a love, hate, Relationship with patents. One, because they've made me a lot of money in the past, but two, I hate them because, you know, I think they inhibit people from doing what they, you know, are naturally bound to do.”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 14:18 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rampton: Due Processed $4M in Transaction Volume in February 2016
“So transaction volume in February, 2016 was about four million dollars.”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 4:35 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rampton: Due has around 60,000 registered users
“We're about 60 total thousand people have signed up.”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 7:29 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
Assertion Supported
Rampton: Due paid $130,000 to acquire Due.com domain name
“I mean, just the domain alone, do.com. I mean, we paid a 130,000 for it.”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 10:33 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
Disclosure
Rampton personally invested nearly $500,000 to launch Due
“Have you put in more than 500 grand into this so far? John Rampton: very, very close to that.”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 10:48 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Rampton: Pixloo sold for more than $10 million
“More.”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 12:01 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rampton: 95% of Due's Credit Card Transactions Are B2B
“You know, the consumer to consumer don't do a ton of transactions, so it's probably about 95% business to business. As far as credit card transactions go.”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 4:47 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rampton: Host ranked on Google page one for 'free hosting' in nine months
“Prior to this, I owned a company called Host, and in a matter of about nine months, we were able to take it from, you know, nothing in a brand new site to ranking for, you know, some of the hardest terms on the internet, including right now, the site Is on pag…”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 5:32 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Rampton: Maple North was acquired for seven-plus figures
“I mean, it was seven plus figures.”
John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 ▶ 11:32 My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton

The other half of the tape: John Rampton's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 2 times in 1 episode on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton Jun 6, 2016 9m
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