Future

“My current working theory is that they come from the past. So. Interesting. Ok. Coming from the future is too hard. The physics just don't seem to work out.”

“If you're not living in the future, you don't, your opinion about it isn't valid. It's kind of like saying, I think a customer will do X and you've never talked to a customer. I'm like, okay, your opinion is interesting, but irrelevant. And so the only relevan…”

“I, I'm making a call. Chatbots are not the future.”

“I think Andreessen is probably the best example of a firm who has done this well. Well, you know, they created Future, which is almost like a standalone media entity, and they're trying to really, think thoughtfully about having that as a real media platform”

“Objects in the front view are maybe further than they appear. And that's what often happens with the future is you can kind of see what the world's going to do and what it's going to look like, but you overestimate how soon it's going to come and then you get …”

“And the problem with, and that sounds brilliant on paper, when you think from a financial point of view, but actually what you're doing then is you're robbing those particular media channels of their own voice, where you really cannot make somebody write, rewr…”

“You know what I was going to say though, a partnership opportunity for them is future fit because they're already charging people, 200 dollars a month for literally a digital subscription to a virtual trainer.”

“The plan is a fiction. The plan is a framework for which to think about the future. You know, the moment you finish writing it, the conditions change, etc.”

“We're about 70, 65, 70. That's split between London, we've got about 55 in London, and then 20 between New York and Sydney.”

“So we're approaching ten million annual reoccurring revenue. In fact we were at ten million, but Brexit happened and changed our figures a bit.”

“50% of any large enterprise law firm anywhere in the world uses future and the same sort of figures for kind of accounting or you know, commercial real estate, other, other types of similar nature businesses.”

“We've grown 30% every single year in terms of turnover since the start of the company and we've always been profitable.”

“Still bootstrapped. Yep. Still, still, still, you know, still owned by the four people that started it.”

“25 each.”

“We've got different salaries depending on the roles that we're doing. So, so as we've got to a level where we're operating like a normal company, we've got different people doing different things. So the salespeople, and I'm one salespeople, part of my remuner…”

“So we've got 300 customers.”

“So we had two, two people for about eight years, maybe nine years. We had two people in the, that was the entire sales and marketing team. I think our spend per year was somewhere in the region of 300,000 dollars.”

“Yeah, so, so we're more like 0.3% churn, i.e. We lose about one client a year, and that's more often than not because a merge has happened or something out of our control.”

“Nathan, we normally do three to five year contracts.”

“We do eight, 10, and 12, whether it's a one-year, three, or a five-year.”

“There are probably 2000 people in the world that can buy our services.”

“I said, I would do a riding the mechanical bull if you take a demo of the future platform. She said, okay. So I did the bull. I lasted about five seconds before I got fired into the side. And then she took a demo and became a client.”