“Wikipedia for the news”
EVERYONE IS NOW A REPORTER
300k tweets/min
24hrs of video/min
300k photos/min
This was retweeted hundreds of times
HOW DO YOU FIND AND VERIFY?
But the photo is actually from Thailand
HOW DO YOU FIND AND VERIFY?
FAKE
The world's most open and accurate newsroom.
“Given enough eyeballs all bugs fact-checks are shallow.” — Linus Torvalds
THE SOLUTION
Open newsroom for finding & fact-checking
Anyone can edit the site
Unwanted changes can be reverted instantly
Grasswire Content site, app, email, partner websites
CONTENT DISTRIBUTION
TRACTION
215 daily contributors
(21% week over week growth)
August
478,000 unique visitors
(3,000% month over month growth)
FUTURE
Expansion to verticals (sports, finance, etc.) Syndication with other outlets = huge distribution
Digital news advertising:
$37.8B Growing 17%/year
TAM for news by 2020 is 5 billion people worldwide
MARKET
TEAM
Austen Allred Levi NotikCEO, Co-founder CTO, Co-founder
Stubtopia ($3M profit in 3 yrs) Lead Dev: Songza, Getty Images
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