Patrick Stox
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Everything Patrick Stox said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Ahrefs saved $400M over three years by avoiding cloud hosting
“We saved like four hundred million in three years by not going to the cloud. We built our own data centers. It's a little painful. We had some down times. We got some flack for it, but like it was the right decision in the end. We scale so much data. This numb…”
Ahrefs grew past $100M revenue without a sales team
“Fun fact, we grew, I'll show you the numbers in a minute, we're over a hundred million dollars. We basically used word of mouth, blogs, and YouTube. We didn't have a sales team till we hit about a hundred million dollars.”
Stox: Best product ideas come from internal power users, not customers
“Users, I don't think, will ever give you the next unicorn idea, the next great product idea. They're always like, this is what the other tools are doing. Give me that, basically. Like, I want this use case. The best ideas, in my opinion, come from your own tea…”
Ahrefs study found 96.5% of web content gets zero search traffic
“So a lot of content doesn't get any traffic. This is from one of our own studies. On the, on 96 and a half percent, no traffic.”
Ahrefs gained over 500k monthly visits by translating existing content
“Translate successful content. If you work in international markets, look, over half a million uplift just translating our content.”
Stox: Ahrefs generates well over $100M in revenue with 125 employees
“We're a 125 people. And that actually includes all the people that work on our search engine as well. So, a 125 people, well over a hundred million in revenue”
Stox: Ahrefs bootstrapped with $300k in personal funds in 2010
“Bootstrapped from about 300,000 dollars in personal funds. Our owner Dimitri, 2010.”
Stox: Ahrefs reached $7M revenue with 15 people before hiring a marketer
“Twenty-fifteen, about 15 people. We finally hired a marketing person. I think, what was the revenue then? About seven million already. Finally got a marketer.”
Ahrefs traffic dropped from 6M to 3.5M due to pre-rendering issue
“We get a lot of traffic, about three and a half million or so right now was recently as high as six. We had like a pre-rendering issue, a technical issue, dropped some, but that will come back.”
Ahrefs: 40% of published blog posts are updates to existing content
“Think about two out of every five blogs that we publish now are just updates of other blogs.”
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