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Matt Griffin

CEO and Co-Founder, Combat Flip Flops · 1 appearance on the record.

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Matthew "Griff" Griffin is a West Point graduate and former 75th Ranger Regiment officer who co-founded Combat Flip Flops to stimulate economic development in post-conflict zones. After securing an investment on Shark Tank, the company used proceeds to fund education for Afghan girls, clear landmines, and support veteran initiatives.

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2 predictions · 8 assertions · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 9 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 Matt 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
Combat Flip Flops pays a 17% tariff on Afghan imports
“I pay a 17% tariffs on all my products that I bring in.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 6:48 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242

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

Insight
Griffin: Educating Women Is Key to Defeating Radicalism
“If you really want to defeat radicalism in the recruitment base forum, you just have to educate women.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 5:37 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Assertion Contradicted
Combat Flip Flops pays a 17% tariff on Afghan imports
“I pay a 17% tariffs on all my products that I bring in.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 6:48 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Griffin targets $100M revenue in five years and $1B in ten
“I have an internal goal of being a hundred million dollar company in five years, and I'd like to be at a billion in 10 years.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 12:51 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Combat Flip Flops hit over $400,000 in sales by March 2016
“This year we're already capping 400 and change and we're in the first week of March.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 2:33 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Griffin projects Combat Flip Flops will achieve ~8% net margin in 2016
“No, we should be at about net eight this year. Net eight percent.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 2:49 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Combat Flip Flops' AK-47 sandals cost $17.50 to make, $3.90 to ship
“It costs us 17 50 to make that. And right now we're air shipping in men. So that costs about three 90 to land.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 3:17 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Disclosure
Combat Flip Flops to cut shipping costs to $0.89 via ocean freight
“By July, we're going to go over to ocean shipping. So we'll be shipping them via container and they're going to cost us about 89 cents a piece to land. So we're going to make about another three bucks on each of those per sale.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 3:23 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Griffin: Combat Flip Flops maintains $8 CPA threshold and 37% repurchase rate
“We have a eight dollar threshold on our CPA and we just try to drive as many customers. Through our funnel as possible. And we have about a 37% repurchase rate right now.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 4:04 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Disclosure
Combat Flip Flops donates 10% of margins to Afghan women's education
“So we take 10% of our margin. Of our products that we sell, and then we contributed to an organization called Aid Afghanistan for Education that educates women to read, write, and do math, and have employable skills, so that way they can provide for their fami…”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 5:05 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
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Griffin: Combat Flip Flops generates ~$100 gross margin per cashmere shemagh
“We pay about 45 bucks each to get those through the door. And then it costs about five or six bucks to ship them. We do them in runs of 50. And, you know, we make about a hundred dollars gross margin on them. And then we contribute 15 bucks to aid Afghanistan …”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 15:05 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Combat Flip Flops generated over $300,000 in sales in 2015
“In 2015, we did over 300,000 dollars in sales.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 2:24 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Combat Flip Flops broke even on 2015 sales
“Yeah, we just broke even on that.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 2:31 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Disclosure
Griffin: Combat Flip Flops ran as cash-based pre-order business for 3 years
“So for the first three years of our business, we were a completely cash-based pre-order business.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 9:39 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Griffin: Combat Flip Flops sold about 2,000 units in its first month
“And then we got our first samples and then we took some photos of it and then we started selling product and I sold about 2000 of them on the first month that we released.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 10:26 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
Disclosure
Griffin personally invested roughly $100k into Combat Flip Flops
“I've put in roughly a 100,000 dollars into the business.”
Matt Griffin Apr 18, 2016 ▶ 12:00 Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242

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Appearances (1)

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Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of Apr 18, 2016 9m
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