Lori Cheek
9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 2, 2020 by Lori Cheek · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Dec 2, 2020 positive
Cheek landed on the New York Times cover by mailing one card.
“I remember I sent a lone cheeked card, one of those cards I invented, and a black padded envelope to one of the editors of the New York Times. Three months later, we're on the cover of the style section of the New York Times, and it said moveovermatch.com. Thi…”
Dec 2, 2020 negative
Cheek argues that securing patents and trademarks ultimately hurt her business.
“I did the trademark, the patent, the copywriting, everything to protect my idea. But in fact, all of that that I did, it went the opposite way. I think it ended up hurting me because this man is trying to get on my patent, which I don't even think is worth any…”
Dec 2, 2020 positive
Dec 2, 2020 negative
A developer error cost Cheek'd $30,000 during its New York Times spike.
“That developer in London had that button ticked off that didn't save everyone's credit card. So we lost every single person's credit card from that push from the New York Times, which based on our average monthly user, that turned out to be about 30,000 dollar…”
Dec 2, 2020 negative
Dec 2, 2020 negative
All five Shark Tank investors rejected Cheek's pitch for Cheek'd.
“I got shot down by all five of them, and I remember standing there thinking, I can't just walk off with this rejection, so I pointed at each of them, and I said, trust you will all see me again, and then I turned around and walked off, but they cut that on the…”
Dec 2, 2020
Cheek funded the launch of Cheek'd using her personal retirement savings.
“I used my little piggy bank... This money that I'd saved was for retirement, it was for my future, but when I came up with this idea, I thought, you know, I'm gonna invest all this money into me, and this is gonna turn into billions.”
Dec 2, 2020 neutral