Candice Faktor
Co-founder & CEO, Disco. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Candice Faktor is the co-founder and CEO of Disco, a platform for live learning, employee upskilling, and community education. She previously served as Head of Business and Global GM at Wattpad and co-founded the tech festival Elevate.
1shows
1appearances
14statements
4resolved
3supported
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75%fully supported
Everything Candice Faktor said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Social learning succeeds through peer accountability and support, says Faktor
“The science of learning is that you actually learn better with people because people hold you accountable. They give you support. You're able to reflect more with them.”
Established creators prefer fixed SaaS subscriptions over revenue share models
“What's really appealing to the knowledge creators and organizations that are making a business out of live learning is they don't want you to take a huge chunk of their revenue. They want to pay you a SaaS fee”
Disco's platform replaces complex integrations of Hopin, Slack, and curriculum tools
“It's actually quite complex for people to sort of piece together a hop in with a slack with a, you know, curriculum tool. And so we just make it super simple in one place.”
Future workforce skills diverge sharply from institutional education, says Faktor
“The skills that people are going to need in the future are so different than what they're being taught in institutional ed”
Zapier-owned MakerPad uses Disco to power its entire learning community
“Really big now organizations are using us, like MakerPad, which is the largest no-code school. It's owned by Zapier. We are the OS for their entire learning community”
Dribbble uses Disco as the operating system for Dribbble University
“Dribbble, the world's, you know, one of the world's biggest product design communities, they're using Disco to be the OS for their entire Dribbble University”
Disco raised a $5M seed round with Shopify and Solana angels
“In our last round we raised five million US and we have incredible angels as well. Lots of interesting folks from Shopify Lambda School, Solana, Endeavor, very interesting people who are participating.”
Disco's $750k pre-seed was backed by Wattpad executives
“That was just a friends and family, 750 K... I have Ivan as an investor. Huge fan of the Wattpad team. Also like the head of product, Tarun Secdeva as an investor.”
Disco's seed round was 3x oversubscribed with $15M in investor interest
“We were three times oversubscribed for that round. We had, you know, fifteen million of interest.”
The majority of active creators on Disco generate ticket sales
“Some have no sales, but the majority do. The majority.”
Top Disco creators are on track to generate $1M+ in 2022
“We have some creators that are on track to do seven figures this year.”
Between 30% and 50% of Disco customers pay for SaaS subscriptions
“I would say it's about like in the range of between 30 to 50%.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Candice's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Disco | 1 | 14 | 75% 3/4 | full record on Top Founders → |