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Leslie Eccles

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

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Leslie Eccles is a tech entrepreneur who co-founded fantasy sports company FanDuel, where she served as head of marketing and board member. In 2019, she founded Relish, a relationship wellness and coaching app.

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5 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 3 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

9 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, 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 Leslie 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
FanDuel founders left the company without liquidity before starting new ventures
“We all left FanDuel way before we started new companies. Let me put it that way. Okay. This was not oh, there's a shiny bright new thing over there that I want to go and do. That was not this case. And we didn't take any liquidity from the company.”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 14:48 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised

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Assertion Not publicly verifiable
FanDuel founders were barred from taking secondary liquidity during KKR round
“There was no secondary. The founders were not allowed to take secondary.”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 13:28 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
Assertion Supported
FanDuel founders left the company without liquidity before starting new ventures
“We all left FanDuel way before we started new companies. Let me put it that way. Okay. This was not oh, there's a shiny bright new thing over there that I want to go and do. That was not this case. And we didn't take any liquidity from the company.”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 14:48 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
Assertion Supported
FanDuel and Paddy Power Betfair transaction formed a new company called Panda
“The way that this deal was created was there was a new company created, which was called Panda Company. And that was created by the FanDuel board. And that company was merged with the US assets of Paddy Power Bitfair. And that came together to create a new com…”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 11:18 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
Assertion Supported
None of FanDuel's co-founders stayed post-merger with Paddy Power Betfair
“None of the founders stayed.”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 11:57 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
Assertion Supported
FanDuel founders left after the FTC blocked the DraftKings merger
“We left after the FTC blocked the merger with DraftKings.”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 15:32 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
Disclosure
Relish raised a $2.2M seed round in late 2018
“2.2.”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 4:04 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Offering multiple paywall choices dropped Relish's conversion rate by 25%
“The conversion was like, 25% lower than it had been when there was just one option on the paywall.”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 18:38 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
Disclosure
Relish charges $100 per year for a two-person B2C subscription
“It's 100% B to C. We're in direct consumer. That's my background. And You know, I think it's the right way to go for this product. It's an annual subscription, a hundred dollars a year for two people.”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 1:53 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Relish has a total team size of 10 people
“We have 10.”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 5:54 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Relish has accumulated approximately 50,000 app downloads
“So we have about 50,000 downloads.”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 9:12 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
Assertion Supported
FanDuel raised capital from Shamrock in 2014 and KKR in 2015
“We took money in 2014 from Shamrock and we took KKR in 2015.”
Leslie Eccles Dec 9, 2020 ▶ 12:19 FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised Dec 9, 2020 10m
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