66: Meet the Drapers: Invest with Tim, Bill and Jesse Draper

Invest Like a Boss

Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz

Business, Investing

4.8 • 518 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sarika Batra is the Producer and Director of ‘Meet the Drapers’, the first-ever startup crowdfunding show that features startups pitching 3 generations of Drapers. The twist is that the millions of viewers are the investors!

Sarika will reveal how the show was created and how you can have the opportunity to pitch to the Drapers. She will also discuss the structure of the deals and investments that may be made. Listen to the end to learn what it takes to produce a show of this caliber.

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Where are we:

Sam Marks – Thailand
Johnny FD – Ukraine

Discussed:

ILAB 40 – Republic.co: Simplifying Startup Investing for Un-Accredited Investors
ILAB 32 – Indiegogo Co-Founder, Slava Rubin on Equity Crowdfunding

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Books:

Start Here – Recommended readings

Time Stamps:

03:24 - Who are the Drapers?
08:30 - Finance and venture capital background
10:30 - First VC in India
11:19 - How the show was created
13:55 - The application process
18:59 - The investment opportunity
20:01 - What to expect from the judges
22:25 - Shark Tank vs. Meet the drapers
25:49 - Pitching the Drapers
29:58 - Form and structure of the investments
31:58 - Producer's production responsibilities
37:13 - How can you watch the show?
43:45 - Beatstars equity crowdfunding

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0:00.0	Big, big thanks to FreshBooks, the super easy to use cloud accounting software.
0:05.2	FreshBooks is offering a 30-day unrestricted free trial to our listeners. To claim it, just go to
0:09.7	freshbooks.com slash invest and enter Invest Like a Boss in the How Did You Hear About Us section?
0:15.5	Welcome to the Invest Like a Boss podcast. I'm Sam Martz and I'm Johnny FD. We're self-made
0:20.2	entrepreneurs who invest our own money
0:21.6	and use modern technology to invest like a boss. Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our
0:26.0	network of modern investors, business owners, and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest our
0:30.6	hard-earned cash. Hey guys, this is Johnny and welcome to episode 66 of Invest Like a Boss. Here's Sam Marks.
0:38.4	Johnny, guys, welcome back. Great episode. Looking forward to doing this one, Johnny. How are you?
0:43.5	I'm good, and I'm really, really excited for this. I'm a big fan of Shark Tank, and I'm a big fan of investing, and I think I'm going to be a big fan of Meet the Jabers.
0:53.7	Aha. Well, we have on Sarika Bra, who's the producer and director of this upcoming show. It's going to be airing in a couple months. And as Johnny said, it's called Meet the Draper's. And man, this is, I think this show is going to be a home run. Like when I first heard about it, Johnny, I was like, this makes total
1:11.7	sense. Like, this is going to kill it. And it's only because of the advent of crowdfunding for
1:17.0	equity and, you know, well, of course, TV, but this couldn't happen without crowdfunding for equity.
1:23.2	So I think it's going to be a home run. Yeah, definitely. So a very kind of brief intro on what this show is about.
1:30.0	We're going to have three, like, just huge name, venture capitalists that are going to be basically the, I'm not
1:37.8	say the sharks.
1:38.3	I don't want to keep comparing it to the shark tank, but basically they're the sharks.
1:41.4	Instead of people pitching home type businesses or products on there,
1:46.5	it's going to be startups that are going to pitch these big VCs.
1:50.7	And instead of us just be able to watch it on the sidelines and rooting, you know,
1:55.3	and root for our favorite person, we can actually be the investors this time around.
1:59.4	Yeah, it's super cool.
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