Xander Adell

Founder, Garden · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alexander "Zander" Adell was the co-founder and CEO of the package-delivery startup Doorman, which was backed by 500 Startups and featured on Shark Tank. A former Pixar technical director, he later created the science fiction audio series Celeritas and founded the personal CRM app Garden.

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2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

8 assertions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 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 Xander 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

Adell: Doorman operates exclusively in SF, Chicago, and NYC with one warehouse

“Right now we're only in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. In each market, we have one primary space.”

Xander Adell Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 6:52 He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell

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 Xander Adell on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said10 Episodes1

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Adell: Retailers are more profitable than consumers who resist paying for delivery

“Working directly with retailers is a bit more profitable for us simply because the on the consumer side, consumers have already paid for shipping, and so you really have to give them as much of a bargain as possible.”

Xander Adell Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 7:19 He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell

Insight

Adell: Doorman uses a bring-your-own-device policy to scale without owning physical assets

“Because we are not trying to own our own fleets or, you know, own airplanes or own warehouses or any of this stuff. And because all of our drivers, you know, we have a kind of bring your own device policy. So all the software that we build is intended, you kno…”

Xander Adell Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 16:15 He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell

Assertion Supported

Adell: Doorman operates exclusively in SF, Chicago, and NYC with one warehouse

“Right now we're only in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. In each market, we have one primary space.”

Xander Adell Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 6:52 He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell

Assertion Supported

Adell: Doorman has raised over $3 million in total funding

“We've raised a little over three million all in.”

Xander Adell Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 8:14 He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Adell: Doorman sees 10% to 20% month-over-month user growth

“We're looking at, you know, 10 to 20% month over month growth.”

Xander Adell Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 9:09 He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Adell: Doorman has delivered over 100,000 packages

“We have, we've delivered over a 100,000 packages.”

Xander Adell Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 10:42 He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell

Disclosure

Adell: Doorman is aiming to raise a Series A on $1M-$5M annual revenue

“The next round that we're trying to raise is Series A and a pretty standard amount of revenue that a Series A investor is looking for is, you know, in the one to five million revenue range per year.”

Xander Adell Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 14:36 He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Adell: Doorman's top customers receive 15 to 20 packages monthly

“Our, you know, our sort of top tier of customers are getting, you know, 15 to 20 packages a month.”

Xander Adell Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 17:36 He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Adell: Doorman users double package volume from 4.5 to 9 monthly

“Did people's behavior change when they started using our service? And the answer was yes. And their behavior effectively doubled. And so what we were, people were saying, yeah, I get I get, you know, I got on average you know, four and a half packages a month.…”

Xander Adell Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 18:20 He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Doorman CEO Zander Adell claims he gets eight hours of sleep nightly

“Yes.”

Xander Adell Jun 9, 2016 ▶ 22:29 He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door,	Jun 9, 2016	12m

Xander Adell

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