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Blake Burch

Data Systems, Roboflow. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Blake Burch co-founded and served as CEO of Shipyard, a low-code data operations and workflow automation platform designed to launch and monitor data pipelines. Prior to Shipyard, he was Head of Data Services at PMG, and he currently builds data systems and automated AI operations at vision AI company Roboflow.

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Everything Blake Burch said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Shipyard processes terabyte-scale bulk data whereas Zapier focuses on row-level triggers
“Zapier and other tools, they focus a lot on if this and that logic. They do things that are very specific for one row and reacting to it. For us, it's more about bulk data processing. So being able to handle gigabytes to terabytes of data and process and move …”
Blake Burch Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 2:31 How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Data orchestration competitors primarily sell cloud hosting for open source projects
“A lot of our competition in the data orchestration space is actually open source software that is trying to sell cloud hosted solutions.”
Blake Burch Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 10:13 How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Shipyard maintains a gross monthly churn rate of approximately 1%
“Churn is about one percent.”
Blake Burch Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 3:37 How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shipyard customers increase platform usage by 10% to 15% month-over-month
“Generally what we're seeing on our side is that people are growing their usage by about, like, 10 to 15% roughly on a monthly basis.”
Blake Burch Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 5:15 How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shipyard has 1,600 platform users and approximately 30 paying customers
“Currently we have about 1600 users of the platform. We have about 30 paying customers on our side right now.”
Blake Burch Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 9:45 How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shipyard generates approximately $12,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“That would be roughly correct. Yeah.”
Blake Burch Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 10:47 How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Shipyard took no venture capital and is funded directly by PMG
“There is money directly from PMG, but no investment from like venture capital or anything else.”
Blake Burch Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 11:44 How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Integration landing pages are a key customer acquisition channel for Shipyard
“Absolutely. It's definitely helped us scale quite a bit, and it's become one of our, like, key strategies in terms of customer acquisition.”
Blake Burch Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 14:45 How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Shipyard's median revenue per customer is approximately $400 per month
“So right now our median amount per customer is gonna be about 400 in general, the way that we price per month.”
Blake Burch Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 3:08 How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Shipyard spun out from internal automation tools at digital agency PMG
“Shipyard is actually the like child product of something that was built at PMG. We ended up splitting things off and spinning the technology out on its own to focus on a totally different sort of ICP of your typical data engineer, analytics engineer and everyt…”
Blake Burch Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 7:08 How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Shipyard spent an entire year in development before acquiring first customer
“It was pretty much an entire year of development.”
Blake Burch Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 11:17 How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data

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