Peter Aronson

Co-Founder, Biluu · 1 appearance on the record.

computed by AI from the episodes · how this works → · full disclaimer →

founderjournalistexecutiveentertainer@PeterAronson ↗peteraronson.com ↗

Peter Aronson spent roughly two decades as an award-winning reporter and producer for outlets including NPR, Marketplace, and MSNBC.com. He later co-founded Biluu, a Mexico City–based social-impact startup designed to provide affordable, sustainable tap water purification systems for homes and offices.

10statements → 6claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 4.1/5average certainty → 1.1/5average debate potential → 2said about them ↓

2 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 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 Peter 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
Aronson: Mexico Is the World's #1 Bottled Water Consumer Per Capita
“Mexicans have gotten that message loud and clear, and that means that Mexico has become the number one consumer per capita of bottled water in the world.”
Peter Aronson May 3, 2017 ▶ 1:37 648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso

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

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

Assertion Partly supported
Mexicans Spend More on Drinking Water Than Broadband and Phone Combined
“70% of the tap, 70% of the bottle water that's consumed in Mexico are these five-gallon jugs, and typical family will be buying about two of those per week, which means that the average Mexican family is spending more per month on their drinking water than on …”
Peter Aronson May 3, 2017 ▶ 2:07 648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso
Assertion Supported
Aronson: Mexico Is the World's #1 Bottled Water Consumer Per Capita
“Mexicans have gotten that message loud and clear, and that means that Mexico has become the number one consumer per capita of bottled water in the world.”
Peter Aronson May 3, 2017 ▶ 1:37 648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso
Assertion Supported
Aronson: Mexico's Bottled Water Market Is $15B Growing at 8-10% Annually
“It's a fifteen billion dollar a year industry, and it's been growing like eight to 10% a year.”
Peter Aronson May 3, 2017 ▶ 1:48 648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Aronson: 42% of Biluu's growth comes from referrals
“And actually, 42% of our growth is come from referrals.”
Peter Aronson May 3, 2017 ▶ 8:43 648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso
Disclosure
Biluu requires six-figure sales volume to retain licensing exclusivity
“Well, those numbers are confidential, but we're talking about you know, six figure sales. We need to maintain those kind of those kinds of numbers in order to see our exclusivity continue.”
Peter Aronson May 3, 2017 ▶ 9:45 648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso
Disclosure
Aronson: Biluu BT-100 Purification System Costs 3,849 Pesos (~$170 USD)
“So that's 3849 pesos, which is about a 170 bucks.”
Peter Aronson May 3, 2017 ▶ 6:11 648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Biluu reaches about 1,500 daily water drinkers
“We have about 1500 people drinking our water every day now.”
Peter Aronson May 3, 2017 ▶ 7:11 648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso
Disclosure
Biluu operates via an exclusive technology licensing agreement
“We have a, an exclusive license to this technology.”
Peter Aronson May 3, 2017 ▶ 9:28 648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso
Disclosure
Biluu is entirely self-funded by its founders
“My partner and I are both self-funded.”
Peter Aronson May 3, 2017 ▶ 10:14 648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Biluu partners with an influencer reaching 2M monthly viewers
“We've got one brand ambassador who's got user engagement of two million people per month, and they're promoting Beeloo on their internet show.”
Peter Aronson May 3, 2017 ▶ 10:55 648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso

The other half of the tape: Peter Aronson'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 →

Who brings them up most Nathan Latka 2

Every mention by year

tap a year for its mentions
0011212017episodesmentions
0112017episodes it came up in
0010.5212017episodesmentions per episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
648:Biluu Lets Mexicans Safely Drink Tap Water for $150 with CEO Peter Aronso May 3, 2017 6m
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 2,600 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.