Moons

Moons: 'Smile Direct became a billion-dollar company in 5 years, we'll do it in 4'

Sam praises Moons, a YC company cloning Smile Direct Club for Latin America, whose founders came from Rocket Internet (notorious for cloning and scaling proven models). Their deck's boldness — promising to hit a billion-dollar valuation faster than the original — is what won him over.

“In one of their decks, they go, Smile Direct Club became a billion-dollar company in 5 years. We're gonna do it in 4. And I looked up the people behind it, and the people behind it previously worked at Rocket Internet, which is notorious for cloning companies and scaling them in different industries, or, uh, cloning like Amazon but for Thailand or something.”