Plotly
company on 3 shows · 14 statements across 2 episodes · said 24 times in 4 episodes since 2017
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Campbell: Generating Plotly charts with ChatGPT took longer than the optimizer
“Just the fact that the optimizer worked is one thing, but like actually parsing all of that, that schedule you've created and present creating outputs that are useful and charts is its own whole like finicky journey. So then I started digging into all of that …”
Tesla's data science team uses Plotly for internal graphing
“So, like a good example is the data science team at Tesla uses us.”
Tesla refuses cloud software for data science, requiring on-premise deployments
“Even someone like Tesla won't use a cloud product for their data science teams. They want something completely behind their firewall.”
Plotly's revenue is split evenly between cloud and on-premise
“Interestingly, it's about fifty-fifty.”
Plotly employs 20 full-time staff and 10 open-source contractors
“So we're about 20 full time and then we sort of have a team of about another 10 contractors that mostly work on the open source libraries.”
Plotly raised a $4.5M seed round and $1M in debt
“We raised four and a half million seed and then took on a million in debt.”
Plotly's most efficient GTM spend is documentation and content marketing
“For go to market, the most Efficient way that we found to spend that money for our product and industry was just making our content marketing and our documentation really, really, really good.”
Plotly has spent only $20,000 total experimenting with paid ads
“We probably spent 20 grand total on paid ads, trying different things.”
Plotly has grown its total revenue 1.8x year-over-year
“If you count all of our revenue It's been about 1.8 per year. So we've almost doubled every year. Right. You know, our first year we did basically nothing less than 300,000 dollars.”