Eugene Johnson
Founder & CEO, Revi. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Eugene Johnson is the founder and CEO of Revi, a digital ordering, point-of-sale, and customer engagement platform for physical retail and restaurants. Before scaling Revi, he worked as a sales executive at Cisco Meraki, launched multiple ventures, and authored the book The Mental Playbook.
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2appearances
28statements
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Everything Eugene Johnson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Johnson: AI Will Destroy Traditional Startup Product-Market Fit Metrics
“I think that that entire conversation will be destroyed. Every investor I've ever talked to since the time I started in investments has talked about, like, do you have the product market fit? Do you have differentiation? Like, what's, how can you gain differen…”
Johnson built a prototype of a competitor's platform in 24 hours
“And I built their entire platform, myself, in 24 hours, the entire prototype of that platform, and then pass it to engineers to start the process of developing it.”
Revi will offer a competitor's $500-a-month SaaS product for free
“We are actually an infrastructure product, so I don't really care whether we make any money from the product itself, the software, so I'm gonna pump that entire market and throw a ton of money behind it at no cost. I'm literally gonna make that product free.”
Johnson: Incumbent Companies Have 24–36 Months to Pivot to AI
“If you don't do that, the likelihood is you probably won't turn fast enough, because I really do think that we've got about 24 to 36 months before that door closes.”
Johnson: Startups face a rude awakening over the next 24-36 months
“Because I believe that those who are AI native are going to zoom past most of you know, companies in the market, and I really think startups are in for a rude awakening, because I actually think that startups are going to have a very, very hard life ahead in t…”
Johnson: Early-Stage Startups Should Hire Fewer, Higher-Paid People
“If I were to start over, that those first five, 10 people that I brought into the company, I would spend more and hire less. Versus hiring more and spending less per person. So if I had a million dollar budget, instead of trying to hire 10 people who can, I ca…”
Johnson: A company is AI-native only if removing LLMs breaks it
“The way to answer that question, whether you're an AI native or AI adjacent, is really simple. If the LLMs, all of the LLMs on the planet disappeared, would your company, would your department, would your role continue As, you know, as if nothing happened, or …”
Johnson: Grubhub spent $1B on kiosks before killing the project
“Grubhub put a billion dollars into that flow and then killed it 18 months later.”
Johnson: Bureaucracy Kept Google From Launching AI Tech Before OpenAI
“Funny enough, Google had the technology OpenAI had long before OpenAI had it. So, but it was bureaucracy that stopped that technology from coming out.”
Johnson: Revi targets $1B in transaction volume in 2026
“You know, our goal is a billion dollars in transactions in 2026 alone.”
Eugene Johnson: A Founder's Core Job Is Emotional Control Under Pressure
“Your job as a CEO, as a founder, is to train emotional control under pressure. Most founders and CEOs are on an emotional rollercoaster.”
Eugene Johnson: Leaders Must Absorb Fear Without Leaking It Downstream
“You just gotta learn how to absorb fear without, like, letting it leak downstream.”
Johnson: Revi hardware costs $500 and pays back in 3-4 months
“It costs us about 500 bucks to purchase all the hardware. We usually make our money back within, you know, three or four months.”
Eugene Johnson: Revi grew GMV from $2M in 2019 to $15M in 2021
“So to put it in perspective, in 2019, we did two million dollars in GMV. In 2020, we did five. This year we're on track to do 15.”
Johnson is an active pastor alongside serving as Revi CEO
“People don't know, not everybody knows this, but I'm a CEO and I'm a pastor.”
Johnson: Revi charges merchants a transaction fee of around 1%
“It depends on their volume, but it's usually around one percent.”
Johnson: Revi earns a sweet spot of $1,000 monthly per merchant
“I would say a thousand is a sweet spot, you know, that's probably where most people land.”
Johnson: Revi hit $1M+ ARR, growing 3x from $300K a year prior
“We've grown three X since the, since last year. So we were about 300,000 dollars a year in revenue a year ago.”
Johnson: Revi grows Gross Merchandise Value by 10% to 15% month-over-month
“So, you know, basically we grow about 15, you know, 10 to 15% month over month.”
Johnson: Revi has raised $4 million to date across pre-seed and seed rounds
“So we raised A pre-seed of about a million and then a seed round of about two million. What year? About four million dollars to date.”
Johnson: Revi monthly churn is sub-1% excluding COVID-driven restaurant closures
“Churn is only 2.8% since COVID and that includes businesses... Monthly... And that includes businesses that we lost to COVID. So if you take those businesses out, you know you know, those businesses who didn't survive COVID, You know, it's sub one percent.”
Johnson: Revi grew 50% month-over-month from January 2019 to March 2020
“We grew about 50% a month, every single month from January of 2019 all the way up to March of 2020.”
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 INNOVATORS & INVESTORSLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Revi | 1 | 16 | 0% 0/1 | full record on Innovators & Investors → |
 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Revi | 1 | 12 | 100% 1/1 | full record on Top Founders → |