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TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darbyshire: SmartSuite reached 400 paying accounts in first four weeks
“We have about 400 accounts that are on the platform in the last four weeks.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 3:40 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darbyshire: Archer Technologies secured 76 Fortune 100 clients within six years
“At the end of the day, I think we had 76 of the fortune 100 were customers after like the first six years of the company.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 5:09 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darbyshire: Archer Technologies averaged a 97.6% renewal rate over nine years
“Over nine years, 97.6% renewal rate. So we only lost three customers in nine years.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 5:27 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darbyshire: Retaining cash boosted Archer's $187M EMC offer to over $200M
“So this deck, this memorandum that we put together allowed us to get an offer for a hundred and eighty seven million. But what was key when we got to the LOI here is that we also got to keep the cash. That was in the business. So the deal was really north of t…”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 9:52 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted
Darbyshire: Archer Technologies generates $700M ARR with 90%+ renewal rates
“At the beginning was that we sold that company in 2009, but that company now does seven hundred million a year in recurring revenue, 90 plus percent renewal rates going public this year.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 15:11 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darbyshire: SmartSuite reached $85K to $90K MRR six weeks post-launch
“So we're in the 85 to 90 K per month range. Right.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 25:47 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
TOP FOUNDERS Prediction Didn’t hold up
Darbyshire: Archer Technologies will go public in 2022
“They're going to go public this year.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 12:18 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darbyshire: Built one of the first no-code platforms in 2000 with Archer
“I built one of the first no code platforms back in 2000, which was Archer Technologies.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 15:15 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darbyshire: Archer sent M&A materials to seven companies, EMC closed in four weeks
“I think we sent it out to about seven organizations that we thought would have interest back in, in this space. Three of them responded. Only one of them was super serious and that was EMC and they wanted to do the deal in four weeks in one month, which was un…”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 9:08 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Darbyshire: Archer Technologies sold to 29 of top 30 US financial institutions
“We're only selling into these 10, and people were frustrated with me in the first year and a half, two years, but what happened was we sold 29 of those 30 companies, and that's what launched us to sell to everybody else, right?”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 13:01 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
SmartSuite took 2.5 years and ~100 developers to build core platform
“It actually took two and a half years of development time About a hundred developers that were just working night and day to kind of, if we go to the next slide, to kind of build out all these core capabilities in this platform that would make that a reality.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 23:28 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darbyshire: SmartSuite accounts average 10-12 seats split evenly between tiers
“Average, every seats are 10 to 12 right now, and we're about fifty-fifty between our team and our professional edition.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 2:53 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darbyshire: SmartSuite grew primarily organically before $10k paid search campaign
“We just started our first page search campaign for like 10 grand last month. So everything's been primarily organic up until this point.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 4:28 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darbyshire: SmartSuite converted 20 to 25 paid customers from Product Hunt
“Probably 20, 25 probably came from product hunt with the discount code that we provided.”
Jon Darbyshire Mar 6, 2022 ▶ 5:02 Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
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