GeekWire's Elevator Pitch: Analyzing the four winning pitches in advance of the upcoming live finale
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🗓️ 1 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we hear the pitches made by four startup CEOs in the 32 seconds it takes to get to the top of Seattle's historic Smith Tower, on their way to winning their respective episodes on this season of GeekWire's Elevator Pitch series.
It's a preview of the upcoming season finale, in which each of the four will make a final pitch at the GeekWire Summit next week, live on stage.
- Episode 1 winner: Amina Moreau, CEO of Radious, an online marketplace that turns houses, apartments and other residential properties into workspaces, rentable by the day.
- Episode 2 winner: Devin Miller, co-founder and CEO of SecureSave, a purpose built emergency savings solution designed to help people feel and be financially secure.
- Episode 3 winner: Erin Quick, co-founder and CEO of PairTree, a service that provides tools, resources and support to navigate and simplify the process of adoption.
- Episode 4 winner: Katherine Sizov, CEO & co-founder of Strella Biotechnology, creators of sensing technology that predicts the ripeness of produce.
More: GeekWire Elevator Pitch Season 3, and the GeekWire Summit, Oct. 6-7.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Smith Tower, going up. |
| 0:02.0 | This is it, the chance to make the elevator pitch that could determine the fate of your startup and the future of your life as an entrepreneur. |
| 0:10.0 | The need for alternate past to building a family has become exponentially more important and yet adoption has been evolved greatly in over 50 years. |
| 0:18.0 | You've got a captive audience. |
| 0:20.0 | Remote work is here to stay. The problem is that working from home isn't great for everyone. |
| 0:25.2 | But you've only got 32 seconds. |
| 0:27.5 | Americans are more stressed than ever over their finances and prioritizing emergency savings over any other financial priority. |
| 0:33.6 | What would you say to spark interest in your idea? |
| 0:36.5 | In order for us to solve this problem, we created a proprietary sensing technology |
| 0:41.4 | coupled with software that predicts the ripeness of |
| 0:44.4 | code use. Could you make the pitch of a lifetime in the length of an elevator ride? |
| 0:48.8 | This week on the GeekWire podcast we hear the pitches made by four startup CEOs in Seattle's historic Smith Tower elevator |
| 0:56.2 | on their way to winning their respective episodes on this season of GeekWire's elevator |
| 1:00.4 | pitch series. |
| 1:02.0 | It's a preview of the upcoming season finale in which each of |
| 1:05.3 | the four will make a final pitch at the GeekWire Summit next week live on stage. |
| 1:26.1 | I'm Todd Bishop and I'm Chine Cook. We are coming to you from Seattle where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business technology and innovation. What happens here matters |
| 1:31.3 | everywhere and every week on this show we talk about some of the biggest stories in the news and |
| 1:36.2 | Some of the most interesting startups in the market and in fact John |
| 1:40.3 | We have been tracking some of the most interesting startups in the community on a very interesting journey. |
| 1:48.0 | It's a 32 second journey to be precise. |
| 1:51.0 | It's straight up Seattle's historic Smith Tower as part of GeekWire's |
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