Jeremiah Wilson
Founder & CEO, Convirza. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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In 2001, Jeremiah Wilson founded Convirza, an AI-powered call tracking and analytics platform that raised over $25 million in venture capital. He also established the customer experience training company Listenforce and authored the book JUMP: Life Beyond Mediocre.
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Everything Jeremiah Wilson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Wilson found angel and institutional investors a poor fit for Convirza
“I have not found angel investors or investors in general to be a good source of revenue, a good source of investment for us.”
Few companies are capable or willing to implement closed-loop attribution
“This data is available, but quite frankly, very few people are capable or want to be capable to get in and actually connect all the pieces. You can do it. There is closed looped attribution. You can get what you want, but are people really going to take the ti…”
Convirza plans to stay flat at $10M ARR during acquisition integration
“I'm planning on staying flat where I'm at. Just past ten million. Getting this acquisition done, getting it off my back Those are problems. I'm, you know, every business has them. We're stuck and now get past that.”
Convirza's best customer acquisition channel for a decade has been free webinars
“Our best source for the past decade has been webinars, which don't cost us anything.”
Convirza built its own telephony platform instead of relying on Twilio
“Well, again we chose, so our competitors
Are using companies like Twilio where they, where they're actually not doing the engineering themselves.
We built out our own we built out our own platform.
So we are our own phone provider and that, that has cost us m…”
Convirza's sweet spot is marketing agencies paying $2,500 per month
“Our sweet spot is that 2500 dollar customer. That's going to be your agency who's got multiple advertisers that they support. But we also have the mom and pop paying 29 dollars and we have the enterprise paying a 100,000 dollars a month.”
Convirza raised $24M in total funding after 2010
“So after 2010, we raised capital over a number of rounds, twenty four million.”
Convirza serves over 1,000 agencies and 50,000 businesses
“We have over a thousand customers, but that's not the whole story because their agencies remember. And so those agencies, customers could also be called our customers. And in general, in our industry, we'll, we'll call it 50,000 customers. We actually have 50,…”
Convirza's pre-acquisition customer acquisition cost was $1,200
“Pre-acquisition
it was 1200 dollars.”
Wilson estimates Convirza customer lifetime value at four years
“There's different ways for us to calculate it, but I'd say lifetime value is four years.”
Convirza's customer acquisition cost payback period is nine months
“I would say it's nine months right now.”
Convirza's average customer pays approximately $600 per month
“Our target our average customer is about 600.”
Wilson spent $70,000 on Convirza's initial 100 prototype recording devices
“I bought a hundred of them to get started with.
Nathan Latka: What'd it cost you to buy when you bought a hundred of them?
Jeremiah Wilson: What's that?
Nathan Latka: What'd it cost you when you bought a hundred?
Jeremiah Wilson: 70,000.
Nathan Latka: Total.
N…”
Convirza made roughly $20,000 from one client in its first six months
“The first six months I had one client they paid me probably 20,000 dollars if I remember right.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Jeremiah'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 | Founder & CEO, Convirza | 1 | 17 | — | full record on Top Founders → |