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Tepper: There are zero billionaire traders in the world
“So of that list, there's zero billionaire traders. And of the 3000 billionaires, they're split between stock investors, real estate investors, and entrepreneurs.”
Tepper claims his custom Excel model generated 15-50% annual returns
“So I decided to put things into Excel, used it for about four years, making returns between 15 and 50% consistently per year.”
Tepper: Great customer service can save a mediocre product
“You can have a bad product or a product that's it's seeing improvements in great customer service, and you have a company, but if you flip that equation, you got a great product and bad customer service, you don't have a company.”
Tepper: Most marketing agencies fail to generate a positive ROAS
“Generating a positive ROAS return on ad spend is actually, it's pretty hard to do, and most people That are running an agency or marketing firm, from my opinion, are not very good at it. That's what I found over the last few years. It's not everybody, but most…”
Tepper avoids US hiring to save on health insurance and overhead
“Our business model, actually, I'm one of the only guys from the states, otherwise I have a lot of contractors around the world that have helped, and with that, you're not paying your health insurance and social security and all that, and it just happened to wo…”
Tepper: SaaS companies need under 5.75% monthly churn for PMF
“With a SaaS, a benchmark, you want to be at about 5.75% or less to really achieve product market fit.”
Tepper: Only 15% of stocks qualify as 'on sale'
“And for context, only about 15% of stocks in the market actually hit on sales.”
Tepper: Tykr achieves an 18% visitor-to-trial conversion rate
“First conversion that visitor to trial, you want to be about over eight percent with a SAS, especially a low touch SAS like ticker. We're at about 18%, which is awesome.”
Tepper: Tykr increased trial-to-paid conversion from 4% to 11%
“The trial to paid has been a lot harder. For example, you want to be over 10%. We were for a while like around four percent, five percent. We figured out some ways to really encourage people to join In that trial period to become a paying customer. And we did …”
Tepper: Tykr lowered its monthly churn rate to roughly 3.9%
“From two years ago was like 11% per month, which is terrible. And it got down to about five percent in With a SaaS, a benchmark, you want to be at about 5.75% or less to really achieve product market fit. So about a year ago, we're at five. Now we're averaging…”
Tepper: Tykr has surpassed 10,000 customers across 50 countries
“Ticker's about four years old. We've got a little over 10,000 customers in about 50 countries”
Tepper: Tykr gets roughly 17% of customer leads from YouTube
“So we get about 17% of our leads from YouTube as of today.”