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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Insight
Selling B2B software to enterprises beats selling to startups during economic downturns
“Good luck selling to another startup today, they're trying to like rationalize all of their tools. We are doing it. And it's much better to be selling to enterprises and selling to security.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
BigID generated $5M in revenue in year one and $15M in year two
“In our first full year, we did five million in revenue. And in our second full year, we did fifteen million in revenue.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
BigID expects to cross $100 million in revenue during 2023
“We'll cross a hundred million this year.”
Disclosure
BigID generated nearly $1 million from its SmallID product since September 2022
“We did a soft rollout. We have a little bit under a million dollars in revenue. We started rolling it out around September.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
BigID closed Nike for $400k after one visit as a six-person team
“The reason I was able to sell Nike, I think we only visited them once before they gave us a check for, 400,000. We told them we're six people. They had no illusions about how, you know, how big we were over Zoom.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The API security market did not materialize until AWS and mobile launched
“My second company, we started talking about API security and management in 2003. Nobody knew what the hell an API was. They couldn't even spell an API until really Amazon Web Services came out, mobile applications took off. So you're really looking at 2009, 20…”
Disclosure
BigID sold exclusively privacy use cases for its first two years
“That was our first use case, and honestly, the only thing we sold for two years.”
Disclosure
BigID has raised approximately $250 million in venture funding to date
“We raised, I think, I don't know, two 50 now”
Disclosure
CISOs and Chief Data Officers each drive 40% of BigID's business
“About 40, give or take, 40% of our business is the CES organization, about 40% the CDO. Maybe about 20% is privacy and compliance.”
Disclosure
BigID launched its marketplace strategy while generating under $30 million in revenue
“Look, we were, we had revenue, but I still think it was probably under 30.”