#60 Is This the Amazon Prime of Airline Tickets?

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Technology, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Rama Poola is here pitching his airline ticket business, SkyHi, where customers pay a monthly fee to access tickets on the cheap. But the investors are worried that it sounds a lot like MoviePass, a company that offered a subscription for unlimited movie tickets — and ran into a world of problems. Can Rama convince them that his model won’t break the bank? Today's investors are Alexandra Stanton, Sheel Mohnot, Charles Hudson and Phil Nadel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.1	Have you looked at Movie Pass?
1:02.8	There's a couple ways that we're different.
1:04.5	We actually think we're more like an Amazon Prime than a...
1:07.5	Of course, Amazon Prime successful and Movie Pass sucks.
1:11.0	Today's founder, Ramapula, is here asking for $2 million for his plane ticket
1:16.1	subscription service sky high but a big question hangs over his pitch is it more
1:21.2	like movie pass a movie ticket subscription service that's majorly tanking,
1:25.8	or is it more like Amazon Prime? That's what our investors are trying to figure out.
1:31.2	From Gimlet, this is the pitch. I'm Josh Muchio.
1:37.0	Today's investors are Alexandra Stanton.
1:40.0	Alexandra is CEO of Empire Global Ventures and on the side she likes to make strategic
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