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TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Holmes: Hootsuite generates 30,000 self-serve signups per day
“All of our leads are generated through our freemium signups, our pro signups, our self-serve signups. They come in through those channels. So we get, you know, 30,000 signups a day.”
Ryan Holmes Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 13:42 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing
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Holmes: Hootsuite has 16 million seats
“That's sixteen million seats.”
Ryan Holmes Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 18:23 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Holmes confirms Hootsuite has passed $100M in ARR
“Yeah, we are.”
Ryan Holmes Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 20:55 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hootsuite is cashflow positive with no pressure to IPO
“We've built a company that's cashflow positive, and therefore there aren't any pressing forces for us.”
Ryan Holmes Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 21:27 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Alphabet's Cellular Structure Allows Google to Effectively Expand in Multiple Directions
“And so that cellular division, I believe, is a very smart one. I think then it allows the leaders to create a more tightly aligned vision for a smaller group of people, and I think that's a very smart move on behalf of Google. I think it's going to allow them …”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 9:56 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 Policy Allows Employees to Walk Out of Unproductive Meetings
“You know, one of the things we have is a policy of, you know, if you don't feel like you're going to be adding value or the meeting isn't useful for you just excuse yourself. It's not, you know, a mandatory have to sit in and, you know, unless you're contribut…”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 11:43 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
Holmes: Hootsuite customer contracts range from tens of dollars to millions
“We have teams of tens of thousands using our product on a daily basis to, Help connect with their customers, and so the model matures, so we go from tens of dollars to millions of dollars in terms of the spectrum of our customers.”
Ryan Holmes Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 4:27 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Holmes: Hootsuite has raised north of $200 million to date
“Yeah, to date I, you know, it's north of 200.”
Ryan Holmes Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 11:07 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Holmes: Hootsuite has over 200 app directory partners and millions of installs
“We've got over 200, ah, different partners built out in our app directory so far. We have millions of installations of apps in our app directory.”
Ryan Holmes Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 17:20 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Holmes: Hootsuite has customer deployments of up to 10,000 seats
“I mean, the law of large numbers, some of the big enterprises obviously take out, we have 10,000 seat deployments.”
Ryan Holmes Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 18:32 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hootsuite reaches nearly 1,000 total employees
“We are at almost exactly 1000 employees.”
Ryan Holmes Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 21:39 865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing
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 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!
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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
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