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ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roost is growing monthly revenue at 35% to 40% month-over-month
“Yeah, we launched pretty quickly, and now we're growing about 35% a month, 40% a month actually.”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gillon predicts Roost's $2M seed round will price at $8M-$9M pre-money
“We, we're looking for a lead investor right now, but if I were to see the future, I'd say about eight or nine million.”
Disclosure
Roost charges a 15% monthly transaction fee on storage and parking
“So we take a 15% transaction fee Per month in perpetuity on these big transactions.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roost generated $50,000 in top-line revenue in December 2015
“December of 2015, we did 50,000 dollars.”
Disclosure
Roost raised $1.46M in notes before pursuing a $2M priced round
“So we did a 160,000 dollars convertible note, then we did a 300,000 dollar convertible note, and then we did a million dollar convertible note, and now we're doing a price round. I'm raising two million dollars right now on a price feed round.”
Assertion Supported
Zipcar and Enterprise are major commercial partners for Roost
“Looking at Zipcar and Enterprise, also who are big partners of ours.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gillon found his technical co-founder via a $75 TaskRabbit introduction ad
“So what I did was I actually put out an ad on TaskRabbit, back when, you know, you could do anything on TaskRabbit, you didn't have to be a professional and I put out an ad on TaskRabbit saying, seeking introduction to a technical person with an entrepreneuria…”
Disclosure
Gillon raised $35,000 total across all of his failed startup businesses
“For all the businesses about, it's probably about 35,000 dollars.”
Disclosure
Gillon funded a past startup via Airbnb rentals for early profitability
“Droperty tax, I actually funded via Airbnb. And I was renting out my place on Airbnb and funding the business, and we're profitable pretty quickly.”