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100

These three wines were included in VV-0001 (just the label, not vintage).

Bonus: 100 points for the vintages.

What are Screaming Eagle, Opus One, Harlan Estate The Maiden

2010, 2015, 2016 Screagle

2017 Opus

2017 Maiden 

100

We found Billy on this platform.

What is Upwork

100

This individual was the first Vint investor in the company.

Who is Tanya King

100

Name the three Vint customer personas

Retail Rick, Savvy Suzie, Hedgy Harold

100

The Vint Podcast has done this many episodes.

Bonus: Who was the first external guest?

106

Trothe

200

In 2019, Nick & Patrick sourced $14k worth of wine from some guy in DC and sold the wines to who.

200

This individual sent Nick this message on LinkedIn and was hired 5 months later.

Who is Jordan Jez

200

Name 5 investors from Vint's Seed Round.

Montage Ventures, WTI, MS&AD, Goat Rodeo, irrvrntVC, Fintech Ventures, Plug & Play

200

Vint has had many logo's. This logo is not one of them.

Invest in Your Passion one

200

This is the exact amount of money raised in the friends and family round.

What is $198,000.

300

What is special about this red wine?

WBURG

300

Nick was originally connected to Adam in 2020. Kevin Sidders emailed someone who introduced us. This individual introduced me to Adam.

Who is Don St. Pierre

300

Which one of these people has Vint pitched? 

Sam Parr, Joe Montana, Steve Aoki, Gary Vaynerchuk

Joe Montana

300

In 2020, Nick said “I don’t really do social media, but I think we should put a few eggs in this basket.” What social media platform was this?

Double Points: There is a group titled Vint Investors - “Welcome to the only club for the Vint Community. Here, we will promote transparency & build community with weekly rooms. Join us for expert panel discussions, wine market updates, quarterly earnings calls, and much more.” How many members are in this group?

What is Clubhouse


130

300

In this year, Vint's oldest asset started its aging process.

1942 - Macallan Red 78 YO

400

Vint, shamefully, did an NFT. This is the producer we worked with.

Who is Emmitt Scorsone

400

Vint briefly had a third co-founder, who was it?

Who is Ryan Sanders.

400

This VC gave us our first term sheet. GoAheadVC, Fintech Ventures, Slow Ventures, Allied Venture Partners

GoAheadVC

400

Patrick once taught an info session on this, now very popular, topic to our first interns.

What is Machine Learning

400

Our largest individual investor has invested this many hundreds of thousands of dollars with us.

What is 4.

500

Which one of these merchants did Vint buy its first Screaming Eagle from? Wine.com, Bordeaux Index, William Gladstone Imports, K&L Wines

William Gladstone Imports

500

Nick & Brady met for lunch when Vint was just a waitlist. Brady offered me to come over and drink a bottle of wine. What wine was it (hint: most of us have been there)?

Barboursville Octagon

500

In Nick’s pitch deck, he always uses analogies for Vint businesses, which one of these analogies hasn’t been used?

Nasdaq for Wine, Coinbase for Wine, NYSE for Wine, StockX for Wine, Citadel for Wine

Citadel for Wine

500

In the earliest days, our weekly meeting was on this day of the week.

Bonus question: What individual made us change it?

What is Sunday

Meiyi

500

Over the life of Vint, we've had this many interns.

Write down the names of each for an extra 100 points per person.

16

Ralph, Tyler Sweeney, Jimmy Goranov, Cameron Chiamonte, Nick Lennarz, Caroline, Thomas Blanchard, Simon, Reid, Keegan, Clarke, Gundy, Grayson, Patrick Gibbons, Conner Snavely