Is This Business Idea Too Good Not To Steal? | Elevator Pitch

This week on Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch, Investors Marc Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, Kim Perell, CEO of 100.co, serial entrepreneur and investor, and Dhani Jones, former NFL player and serial entrepreneur hear pitches from three new contestants looking to secure investment.

00:00 - Intro
00:36 - Aabesh De, founder of Flora, an app and device that provides care guidance for more than 10,000 types of plants
11:03 - Kalyn Johnson Chandler, founder of Effie's Paper, a Black- and female-owned personalized stationery business
14:39 - Mario Soave, founder of CleverFi, which connects users to Wi-Fi automatically without the need for passwords

Joining them this week are Aabesh De, founder of Flora, an app and device that provides care guidance for more than 10,000 types of plants, Kalyn Johnson Chandler, founder of Effie's Paper, a Black- and female-owned personalized stationery business, and Mario Soave, founder of CleverFi, which connects users to Wi-Fi automatically without the need for passwords.

This week, our investors surprised our contestants with unexpected questions: You gave a great pitch, but does that mean you have a great product? What is to stop a big corporation from swooping in, iterating on your concept and pushing you out of business?

Put another way, is your idea too good?

Tune in to this week’s Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch to find out how our contestants fared.