Ryan Holmes

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

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hootsuite Achieved Immediate Viral Product-Market Fit at 2008 Launch

“And what we saw, you know, pretty much right out of the gates was a very viral uptake in the product usage. We had great product market fit.”

Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 3:51 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hootsuite Bootstrapped Its First Year Using Seven Digital Agency Employees

“We worked for the first year. It was bootstrapped within the agency and classic, you know, entrepreneurial story. We had seven people from a 21 person team working on a zero revenue product.”

Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 4:08 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!

20VC Disclosure

Hootsuite Created an Internal Startup for Cardboard Standing Desks

“I recently launched a little startup within Hootsuite that was to scratch my own back problem that I had, which was actually around a back injury a few years ago, and it was a simple stand-up The idea came out of just my daily work habits, and it's a cardboard…”

Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 8:22 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Vancouver Lacked VC Sophistication in SaaS and Social Media in 2008

“There were not, and was not a level of sophistication in Vancouver around social media, let alone cloud and SaaS.”

Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 18:29 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hootsuite Reached Cashflow Neutrality in One Year on $1.9M in Capital

“We used our initial 1.9 million to get to cashflow neutral. In, in about a year.”

Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 19:31 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!

TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hootsuite launched its first MVP in two months

“And we put out a prototype, really rapid, you know MVP, got it out in probably two months, and had immediate traction on it.”

Ryan Holmes Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 7:16 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported

Hootsuite charged nothing for over a year after 2008 launch

“Yeah, we didn't charge for over a year. So from 2008 fall to, you know, a year into it, we did not charge.”

Ryan Holmes Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 7:56 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

The other half of the tape: Ryan Holmes's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 25 times in 14 episodes across the shows. 5 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Nathan Latka 20Cameron Herold 3Harry Stebbings 2

Statements about Ryan Holmes, by other people (5)

TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated

Latka: The most successful SaaS companies originated out of agencies

“And the most successful SAS companies I've ever seen all came out of agencies. Qualtrics with Ryan Smith Ryan Holmes at Hootsuite. I mean, the most successful SaaS company started as agencies.”

Nathan Latka Aug 1, 2018 ▶ 19:46 1103 When should he quit his agency and go all in on software?

TOP FOUNDERS Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2023

Latka predicts Hootsuite will sell for $750 million soon

“Probably going to sell Hootsuite for seven hundred fifty million bucks here soon.”

Nathan Latka Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 13:38 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency

TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated

Herold: Pushed Hootsuite aggressively back toward profitability during 2015 leadership meeting

“I led the leadership team meeting for Hootsuite two and a half years ago for Ryan Holmes and his team, and I really, really aggressively pushed them back towards profitability, so they did.”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 11:57 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted

Ryan Holmes shut down a $5M agency to launch Hootsuite

“He shut down his agency when he's doing five million bucks in revenue to go and force himself to be uncomfortable and go all in on Hootsuite.”

Nathan Latka Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 13:48 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency

TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Partly supported

Hootsuite reached $200M revenue after shutting down its $4M agency

“He grew it to about three, four million bucks and just Professional service revenue. Everyone kept asking for them to manage manually their posting. So he said, I'm gonna build software for this. And then he shut down that agency. He totally washed away four o…”

Nathan Latka May 6, 2019 ▶ 8:07 1381 When should you shut your agency down to go all in on SaaS?

Every mention by year

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER	Founder & CEO, Hootsuite	1	17	100% 2/2	full record on Top Founders →
20VCLEDGER	Founder & CEO, Hootsuite	1	14	—	full record on 20VC →