Everything Guy Pearson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Pearson: Australian investors struggle with unprofitable, fast-growing startups
“Australians how would you put this? They like to see efficiency and capital deployment. As a mindset, we're used to profitable companies. And so when you've got something that's not profitable, but growing quickly, people sort of struggle.”
Pearson: Freemium failed because accounting customers only adopted paid software
“The freemium Model is something we tried way back in the day, and that did not work. As soon as we turned pricing off and payments, or sorry, charging everyone for the software, we had a whole bunch of emails going, oh great, now I'll start using it. So, big l…”
Practice Ignition rejected higher Series C valuations to partner with JMI
“When we did this round, we turned down higher term sheets to work with JMI.”
Practice Ignition processes over $1B in annualized payment volume
“We've got a couple of billion dollars of revenue under management, and we process north of a billion annually at the moment”
Series C secondary included $4M for team and $6M for investor buyout
“JMI let, it was about four million went to the team. Six million was the buyout Tuesday investor.”
Practice Ignition's customer base is 95% CPAs and bookkeepers
“95% of our customer base are CPAs and bookkeepers around the world.”
Practice Ignition customers average $400/month across SaaS and payments
“The payment's about US 400 a month for a mix of software and payments. So sort of a blended piece, the average software clip is about a 150 US and the payment's about two 50.”
Practice Ignition achieves a 50 bps blended take rate
“The blended take rate for ourselves is about 50 bips at the moment.”
Practice Ignition charges 270 bps on US credit cards and max $1 on ACH
“We've got 270 bips in the US on credit card, and this is a headline rate but we have a flat fee charge for ACH presently, and so if you're processing, ah, B to B payments, similar to say like a bill.com, but you're running it through us, ah, between the two pa…”
Practice Ignition raised only $2M in its first five years
“I think we'd only raised about
Two million dollars in that whole five year journey.”
Practice Ignition reached break-even profitability in 2019
“We actually got through the break even in 2019”
Practice Ignition took 30% dilution in its Series A round
“30.”
Practice Ignition grew 70%+ for two consecutive years
“So we've grown at about 70 plus percent last two years running, which is not terrible, but we would have liked to have grown more”
Pearson: Practice Ignition payments revenue expands at 130% year-over-year
“We sort of, you know, I think payments expands at about a 130% a year over year. And then software is sort of industry standard.”
Practice Ignition took approximately 15% dilution in its Series C
“I think the delusion was just closer to 15%.”
Practice Ignition's Series B was raised at a $50M+ pre-money valuation
“Just north of US, 50.”
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