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Jason Tan

Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Sift. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Jason Tan co-founded Sift in 2011, serving as CEO as the company built a machine learning-driven fraud prevention platform and reached unicorn status. In 2021, he transitioned to Executive Chairman and began writing about leadership, mental health, and founder burnout on his Substack newsletter, Scar Tissue.

2shows
2appearances
17statements
4resolved
4supported
0contradicted
100%fully supported

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

Tan: Making Over $1M on Startup Equity Typically Requires Facebook-Scale Outcome
“You know, typically to make more than a million dollars at any company, it would require kind of a Facebook size outcome.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 3:59 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
MAD Insight
Tan: Traditional rule-based fraud detection systems do not scale
“So this is the way that things are done, is really building these rule-based systems that do not scale, okay?”
Jason Tan May 27, 2014 ▶ 7:40 Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jason Tan: Email addresses containing digits have higher fraud rates
“If you have numbers in your email address, more likely to be a fraudster.”
Jason Tan May 27, 2014 ▶ 8:42 Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Assertion Supported
Tan: Google generates $55B annually due to its search data lead
“They make fifty-five billion dollars a year, because they have so much data by being the number one search engine.”
Jason Tan May 27, 2014 ▶ 13:19 Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tan: Sift Science customers pay thousands up to $100,000 monthly
“Oh, it's probably going to be a in the minimum of a few thousand dollars per month. We have some customers paying us a 100,000 dollars per month.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 2:32 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Tan: Max Levchin personally invested $1M to lead Sift Science seed round
“He wanted to lead our seed round. So he put a million dollars of his own money in and we raised a total of 1.6 million dollars back in September of 2001.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 6:35 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Tan: Sift Science has raised approximately $54 million in total funding
“Oh, we raised about fifty four million dollars.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 6:52 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tan: Sift Science has approximately 500 paying customers
“We have, we're lucky to have quite a few just about 500”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 6:58 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sift Science has more than doubled revenue annually for past few years
“We've been more than doubling our revenue for the last few years.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 8:36 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tan: Sift Science maintains an LTV to CAC ratio over 3:1
“I think that our LTVCAC is more than three to one.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 10:51 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tan: Sift Science achieves CAC payback in under 18 months
“I mean, ours is sub 18 months.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 11:11 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tan: Sift Science revenue churn is under 1%
“Our churn is, our revenue churn is sub one percent.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 12:34 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tan: Sift Science annual logo churn is under 3%
“Oh, I think you're sort of sub-three percent.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 13:21 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
MAD Assertion Supported
Tan: Sift Science has 25 employees and 175 customers including Twitter and Uber
“We have 25 people out in San Francisco just closed our Series B recently, and we have about a 175 customers around the world, including Twitter, Square, Match.com, OpenTable, Uber, Airbnb, Kickstarter and others.”
Jason Tan May 27, 2014 ▶ 0:19 Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jason Tan: Gmail domains carry lower fraud risk than obscure domains
“Gmail is much more trustworthy than some of these other domains, right?”
Jason Tan May 27, 2014 ▶ 8:54 Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jason Tan: Sift Science builds global models across 175 customers
“We build this global model that learns across all of our 175 global customers”
Jason Tan May 27, 2014 ▶ 19:37 Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Tan: Sift Science charges per billable transaction or account creation
“In terms of how we make money, we charge per billable event, and that usually ties to a significant transaction or an account created on our customer's website.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 1:51 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Jason's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

ShowRole thereEpsStatementsRecord
TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Sift 1 11 100% 2/2 full record on Top Founders →
MADLEDGER Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Sift 1 6 100% 2/2 full record on the MAD Podcast →
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