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Sean Wycliffe

President, Banglahelp · 2 appearances on the record.

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Sean Wycliffe co-founded Dealflicks in 2012, an online and mobile marketplace offering discounted movie tickets and concessions that operated until 2018. He has also founded and led several humanitarian and nonprofit organizations, including Project Pueblo and Banglahelp.

19statements → 17claims → 2claims resolved → 3.58/5average certainty → 1.11/5average debate potential → 4said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 15 not checkable as stated how the 17 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 15 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 17 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 15 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 Sean 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
Wycliffe: DealFlicks signed Carmike Cinemas partnership across ~250 locations
“Recently we actually expanded to a national partnership with the fourth largest theater chain in the country, which is so Carmack cinemas. Okay. Yeah. So they're the fourth largest and they did a pilot with us and they really liked the pilot. The data came bac…”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 13:35 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
DealFlicks CEO: 88% of movie theater seats sit empty
“Right now, 88% of movie theater seats are empty”
Sean Wycliffe Feb 28, 2016 ▶ 3:07 Convincing Affiliates To Market For You with Sean Wycliff of DealFlicks Ep 14

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

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

Disclosure
DealFlicks pays $4 affiliate bounties on $2 gross profit sales
“The way that we're doing it, we're actually paying four dollars per affiliate transaction, which is more than we make. So we might make, let's say two bucks on average, but we're paying them for, so we lose every time that happens. But the thinking is, A custo…”
Sean Wycliffe Feb 28, 2016 ▶ 12:45 Convincing Affiliates To Market For You with Sean Wycliff of DealFlicks Ep 14
Prediction Not checkable as stated
DealFlicks CEO predicts long-term customer LTV can reach $50
“Right now it's about 24 dollars. I think in the long run, we could probably get it up to maybe about 50 dollars.”
Sean Wycliffe Feb 28, 2016 ▶ 14:16 Convincing Affiliates To Market For You with Sean Wycliff of DealFlicks Ep 14
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DealFlicks reaches roughly $370,000 per month in top-line revenue
“We just passed over about 350,000 ish 370,000 ish per month.”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 2:58 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DealFlicks sells roughly 70,000 tickets and 70,000 concessions monthly
“About 70,000 tickets per month, and then there's another 70,000 concession. Ish, so. So yeah. So yeah. And then those 70,000 tickets translated, you know, to about 370,000 in, in top line revenue.”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 3:46 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DealFlicks operates across roughly 800 theaters and over 6,000 screens
“We have about roughly around, around 800 theaters on the platform. And we have also about 6000, a little over 6000 screens on the platform.”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 5:30 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DealFlicks has over 500,000 registered users and ~125K-155K paying customers
“In terms of users, we have a little over 500,000 users now. And in terms of ones that have made purchases you know, cause sometimes we'll get users that sign up from Europe or something like that. So in terms of ones that have made purchases, it's about one fo…”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 6:08 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DealFlicks averages a 13% to 14% take rate per ticket sale
“On average, it's about, you know, 13, 14%, somewhere in there. It can range anywhere between eight percent. To over 15%.”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 7:33 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wycliffe: DealFlicks raised $2.9M seed and secured $1.2M bridge commitments
“So we had finished our Seed round pretty much up at the beginning of 2015. We raised 2.9 million there, and then we actually opened up a bridge note recently. And on that note, currently we have a 1.2 million committed.”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 9:24 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wycliffe: DealFlicks did $418K gross and $55K net revenue in July
“So actually we in July, we crossed over 418,000 for our revenue and then, yeah. you know, we paid our theaters, we paid them and then our kind of gross profit net revenue is 55,000. And then, you know, we have a host of other expenses. So it really split betw…”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 11:29 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Supported
Wycliffe: DealFlicks signed Carmike Cinemas partnership across ~250 locations
“Recently we actually expanded to a national partnership with the fourth largest theater chain in the country, which is so Carmack cinemas. Okay. Yeah. So they're the fourth largest and they did a pilot with us and they really liked the pilot. The data came bac…”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 13:35 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DealFlicks processed over $2.4M in total transaction volume in 2015
“20 15 total transaction volume was about 2.4 million, a little over 2.4 million.”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 14:49 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DealFlicks reaches $6.9M in lifetime transaction volume
“Total transaction volume was 6.9 million.”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 16:08 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wycliffe: DealFlicks will probably clear $5M to $6M in 2016 volume
“I would say, you know, it looks like we'll probably clear you know, maybe, maybe five million maybe six million.”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 16:16 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Contradicted
DealFlicks CEO: 88% of movie theater seats sit empty
“Right now, 88% of movie theater seats are empty”
Sean Wycliffe Feb 28, 2016 ▶ 3:07 Convincing Affiliates To Market For You with Sean Wycliff of DealFlicks Ep 14
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DealFlicks pitched 100 movie theaters over a year before first partnership
“It took us about a year to sign up our first theater. We had to talk to about a hundred theaters before we got our first one to sign on.”
Sean Wycliffe Feb 28, 2016 ▶ 10:04 Convincing Affiliates To Market For You with Sean Wycliff of DealFlicks Ep 14
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DealFlicks average transaction size is around 2.2 tickets
“Our average transaction is a little over two tickets per transaction. So, you know, usually, you know, people are buying 2.2 tickets or so.”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 4:03 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DealFlicks average order value is around 13 dollars
“The average order value is, is, It's around, it's actually around 13 dollars.”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 4:16 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Disclosure
DealFlicks employs eight full-time staff and shifts focus toward engineering
“We have eight, eight full-time folks that work with us. We're starting to move more toward engineering now. It used to be more biz dev heavy, but now we're moving more toward engineering as we're building our product out.”
Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 ▶ 8:36 EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sean Wycliffe bought a Porsche at 19 and Ferrari at 21
“When I was 19, I ended up buying this Porsche and dropping out of UC Berkeley and moving to LA, and my brother did the same thing, and when I was 21, I ended up buying this Ferrari, my brother and I bought this million-dollar house, and later the business had …”
Sean Wycliffe Feb 28, 2016 ▶ 18:52 Convincing Affiliates To Market For You with Sean Wycliff of DealFlicks Ep 14

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 454: $6.9M Movie Tickets Sold In Discount Marketplace DealFlicks with CEO Sean Wycliffe Oct 21, 2016 10m
Convincing Affiliates To Market For You with Sean Wycliff of DealFlicks Ep 14 Feb 28, 2016 11m
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