Parr: Examine.com generates seven figures in revenue with 20 employees
“So they have, I'm gonna give you some stats, 40,000 visitors a day, 20 employees, seven figures in revenue, 50,000 people have signed up for their membership or bought some of the guides.”
Puri: Trust-based review models rely on fear-driven consumer verification
“So that's one really good thing about supplements and medicine is that there's like a fear component to it, right? Like I don't want to actually like Die or get side effects from this thing or have a, you know, sort of a big problem occur because of the potent…”
Parr: Examine.com founder Sol Orwell raised $400,000 from tweets for Afghanistan
“The guy, his name is Sol S O S O L space. And then Orwell is his last name. He owns a examine.com. He just tweeted out that he was going to do this. And he was like, I'm going to give it away. He's like, I vetted this. I know where the money's going to go to f…”
Orwell: Examine.com reaches 2.5 to 3 million monthly visitors
“Collectively, I think we're at like two and a half, three million visitors a month.”
Orwell: Examine.com has roughly 10,000 paying content subscribers
“One of the relevant things I think that is relevant to the SaaS founders is we have roughly 10,000 paying subscribers for content.”
Orwell: Examine.com Was Nearly Bankrupt Between 2017 and 2019
“So what happened was in 2017 to 2019, those were the two or I guess three actually roughest years of examine. Like we were almost bankrupt. I had to put it in my own cash to keep it going.”
Orwell: Subscriptions were only 5% of revenue before Google traffic drop
“And thankfully we actually weren't that heavily on subscriptions before, like subscription was maybe five percent of revenue, right? So we started heavily focusing on it.”