Is This the Amazon Prime of Airline Tickets?
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Is This the Amazon Prime of Airline Tickets?

S5 E7·Mar 6, 2019·32 min·Season 5

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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.

The Panel

Phil Nadel, investor
Phil Nadel

Forefront Venture Fund

“When I'm investing, I'm looking at it strictly as a return on investment.”
Sheel Mohnot, investor
Sheel Mohnot
“I always start with a lens of: is this building a better world?”
Charles Hudson, investor
Charles Hudson

Precursor Ventures

“We're people pickers at Precursor. That's what I do.”
Alexandra Stanton, investor
Alexandra Stanton
“I deal with rising companies all day long, and you know it when you see it.”

The Founder

RP

Rama Poola is the founder of SkyHi, a subscription service for discounted airline tickets that pitched on The Pitch. SkyHi charges customers a monthly fee to access flights at lower prices. Poola pitched SkyHi to investors Alexandra Stanton, Sheel Mohnot, Charles Hudson, and Phil Nadel, who compared the subscription model to MoviePass.