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Kenny Ewan

Director of Mission Studio, Nesta · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kenny Ewan is the founder and former CEO of Wefarm, a peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing platform for smallholder farmers. He currently leads Mission Studio at Nesta, overseeing the incubation and scaling of social impact ventures.

11statements → 9claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.91/5average certainty → 1.18/5average debate potential → 5said about them ↓

2 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 8 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are 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 Kenny 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
WeFarm Closed a $1.7 Million Seed Round
“So we just closed our seed round for about 1.7 million dollars.”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 4:19 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan

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

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

Assertion Partly supported
Ewan: 500M Offline Farmers Produce 70% of World's Food
“Five hundred million farmers without internet, but supplying 70% of the world's food”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 2:16 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ewan: WeFarm sees 85% to 90% three-month user retention
“About 85, 90% of people are still using the platform three months after, after they sign up.”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 7:13 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan
Disclosure
WeFarm Plans Monetization Through Data and Marketplace Commissions
“For us, it's about growing a massive volume of people using our product and using it regularly, and we'll look to monetize on the back of that. But that'll be in two principal ways. One is through the data that we generate.”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 2:00 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan
Assertion Supported
WeFarm Closed a $1.7 Million Seed Round
“So we just closed our seed round for about 1.7 million dollars.”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 4:19 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan
Assertion Not checkable as stated
WeFarm Has Seen Up to 5,000 User Sign-Ups in One Hour
“Four, maybe 5000 people is our record for one hour.”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 6:02 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ewan: WeFarm has reached roughly 140,000 farmers
“So that's about a 140,000 farmers now.”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 6:45 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ewan: Roughly 35% of WeFarm users actively contribute knowledge
“People that actively contribute knowledge, which for us averages about 35% of all users actively contribute”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 6:54 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ewan: WeFarm churn occurs almost entirely within the first 24 hours
“Most people that churn, most people that leave, do so in the first 24 hours. And once people stay for 24 hours, they pretty much never leave.”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 7:31 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan
Disclosure
Ewan: WeFarm has commercial contracts with a UK high street retailer
“We already have a couple of commercial contracts with one major high street retailer in the UK.”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 9:31 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ewan: WeFarm expects around $50,000 in commercial revenue in 2017
“I would expect our revenue this year from really commercial sources to be around 50,000 dollars.”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 10:16 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan
Assertion Supported
WeFarm Launched With a £500,000 Google Grant
“So that was 500,000 pounds, which at that point was a lot more dollars than it would be now.”
Kenny Ewan Apr 30, 2017 ▶ 4:41 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan

The other half of the tape: Kenny Ewan's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 5 times in 2 episodes on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After Apr 30, 2017 6m
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