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Connor Lee

Founder & CEO, Afters. On 1 show, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Conor Lee is a software entrepreneur who co-founded TellFi and bootstrapped B2B sales automation platform HipLead, later rebranded as Personas. He currently serves as Founder and CEO of Afters, an AI-driven platform for medical spas and aesthetics practices.

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Lee: Sona has experienced zero churn in two months of beta
“Yeah, so with Sona, I mean, we have, we've had zero churn.”
Connor Lee Mar 8, 2019 ▶ 8:45 1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS
Running an agency provides invaluable insights for building SaaS products
“I really like hip lead just Continuing to run it is because it just, it gives us a great amount of insight into what a lot of different companies are doing and their problems, and that's hard to, that's really hard. Well, you can't put price on it. It's very e…”
Connor Lee Mar 8, 2019 ▶ 13:43 1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Connor Lee claims HipLead has been profitable since day one
“We've been profitable since day one.”
Connor Lee Jan 17, 2017 ▶ 9:04 EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
Connor Lee: Revenue-based financing generally requires profitability and $1M ARR
“Usually these types of loans are only available to companies that have, you know, profitable, functional businesses doing, you know, over a million in ARR. I think that's their model.”
Connor Lee Jan 17, 2017 ▶ 11:29 EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Connor Lee: GoPersonas generates $130K app MRR and $180K enterprise MRR
“We have so we're doing roughly a 130 K in the app on MRR and about a 180 K in our enterprise.”
Connor Lee Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 4:49 1714 Do This Today: How Much You Get $349b PPP Stimulus for SaaS Founders
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Connor Lee: Six enterprise SaaS clients pay GoPersonas $180K monthly total
“We have, and we have about six pretty large SAS clients that, that are paying us a 180 K a month in total.”
Connor Lee Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 5:17 1714 Do This Today: How Much You Get $349b PPP Stimulus for SaaS Founders
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Connor Lee: GoPersonas repaid $225,000 on a $150,000 Lighter Capital loan
“So we use letter capital. Yeah, we were, we haven't our loan was 150 K in actual loan and we had a 50% interest paid over, over three years. So we paid 225 K 70, 70,000, you know, in in, in, in fees and whatnot.”
Connor Lee Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 6:36 1714 Do This Today: How Much You Get $349b PPP Stimulus for SaaS Founders
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Connor Lee: GoPersonas sees 0% enterprise churn and 12-15% self-serve churn
“We haven't had any churn on our enterprise whatsoever. So zero percent there, but on our, yeah, we're at 12, 15% churn on, on the self-serve go percentage.”
Connor Lee Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 13:59 1714 Do This Today: How Much You Get $349b PPP Stimulus for SaaS Founders
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Connor Lee: GoPersonas operates at approximately 95% net revenue retention
“It's about five percent churn overall.”
Connor Lee Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 15:54 1714 Do This Today: How Much You Get $349b PPP Stimulus for SaaS Founders
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Connor Lee: GoPersonas is currently operating as a profitable business
“We're profitable.”
Connor Lee Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 17:07 1714 Do This Today: How Much You Get $349b PPP Stimulus for SaaS Founders
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
HipLead generates $150,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“No, a 150 in MRR currently.”
Connor Lee Mar 8, 2019 ▶ 2:36 1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Sona has reached $28,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“So we built a product called Sona and it's go Sona.com and we're doing about a hundred and I'm sorry, but 28,000 in, in MRR already with Sona.”
Connor Lee Mar 8, 2019 ▶ 3:22 1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
HipLead's agency revenue funds development of new SaaS products
“Yeah, I mean, we might in the future. That's definitely a possibility, but you know, as a, you know, as a bootstrap company Hipplead's, Hipplead's revenue is, is, is growing, is paying for development and all of that on the other products.”
Connor Lee Mar 8, 2019 ▶ 6:44 1322 How to Move from Service Business to Pure SaaS
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
HipLead charges $2K-$4K monthly on average; its largest client pays $20K
“And we charge companies between you know, between two and 4000 dollars a month on average. I think our biggest client is around 20,000 dollars a month.”
Connor Lee Jan 17, 2017 ▶ 4:34 EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
HipLead serves 30 active customers as of late 2016
“We have 30 customers right now.”
Connor Lee Jan 17, 2017 ▶ 4:56 EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
HipLead generates over $120K in monthly recurring revenue as of late 2016
“Yeah, at least we're doing you know, more than double that.”
Connor Lee Jan 17, 2017 ▶ 5:07 EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
HipLead used revenue-based financing from Lighter Capital instead of raising equity
“No, it was actually it was actually a loan from lighter capital. Oh, it's sort of like a bank loan. But that it's invoice or revenue financing basically.”
Connor Lee Jan 17, 2017 ▶ 8:49 EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
HipLead raised over $200K in debt financing to make key hires
“It was a little over 200,000 dollars. Okay. It wasn't much. It was just to make a few key hires.”
Connor Lee Jan 17, 2017 ▶ 8:59 EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
HipLead's customer acquisition cost is approximately $500
“You know, for us probably close to 500.”
Connor Lee Jan 17, 2017 ▶ 12:58 EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
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HipLead's customer lifetime value reached $16,000 by late 2016
“We're right now at 16,000 dollars.”
Connor Lee Jan 17, 2017 ▶ 13:09 EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
HipLead reached just under $1M in annual revenue in 2015
“Yeah, it was just under a million.”
Connor Lee Jan 17, 2017 ▶ 15:42 EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Connor Lee: GoPersonas serves roughly 110 customers on its software tool
“We have about on the hip lead at, well, on the personas actual tool, we have roughly a hundred, a 110.”
Connor Lee Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 2:33 1714 Do This Today: How Much You Get $349b PPP Stimulus for SaaS Founders
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Connor Lee: GoPersonas has no outside equity on its balance sheet
“There's no actual, like, you know, true equity on on our books.”
Connor Lee Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 7:57 1714 Do This Today: How Much You Get $349b PPP Stimulus for SaaS Founders
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Connor Lee: GoPersonas employs 20 people globally
“So we have eight employees in SF and we have 12 other remote employees kind of all over the world.”
Connor Lee Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 17:12 1714 Do This Today: How Much You Get $349b PPP Stimulus for SaaS Founders

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