ACT

also referred to as: act!

includes Act! Insiders Club

6 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 27, 2018 by John Oechsle · said 37 times in 5 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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brought up most by John Oechsle (19), Nathan Latka (11), Craig Klein (4), Pat Sullivan (2), Paul Peterson (1)

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2019 17 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
2018 19 mentions in 2 episodes 10 per episode

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Everything said about ACT, oldest first

Aug 27, 2018
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Swiftpage bought $70M of revenue while making only $4.5M
“So we're just a little four and a half million dollar company, and we bought like seventy million dollars worth of revenue.”
John Oechsle Aug 27, 2018 ▶ 5:10 1129 He Bought $70m Of ARR w/ Other Peoples Money, Kept 60%+ Equity for Common
Aug 27, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Swiftpage reached over 85,000 customers and 300,000 cloud users
“We had at that point, we had 65,000 customers on, around the world. In, in 2015. [411] SPEAKER_05: Okay. [412] John Oechsle: we now have over 85,000 customers, over 300,000 users, all on our you know, cloud, open cloud-enabled platform paying subscription you …”
John Oechsle Aug 27, 2018 ▶ 6:43 1129 He Bought $70m Of ARR w/ Other Peoples Money, Kept 60%+ Equity for Common
Dec 4, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
SwiftPage had around 60,000 customers in May 2015
“Back then, this is around May of 2015. Back then, we had about 60,000 customers, and we were like, how do we convert 60,000 customers from using, you know, like, desktop license software and maybe spending some money on maintenance to an open cloud-enabled pla…”
John Oechsle Dec 4, 2018 ▶ 12:50 1228 SwiftPage ACT CEO "We're 1-2 Years Away from $100M in ARR"
Dec 4, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Only 42% of SwiftPage's 60,000 Legacy Customers Paid Maintenance in 2015
“Think about those 60,000 customers back then, they were buying a license and only 42% of them were paying maintenance.”
John Oechsle Dec 4, 2018 ▶ 15:49 1228 SwiftPage ACT CEO "We're 1-2 Years Away from $100M in ARR"
Apr 21, 2019 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Pat Sullivan: ACT! ultimately sold more than 30 million copies
“There were times during Act which, you know, ultimately sold thirty million plus copies that we thought we were gonna fail.”
Pat Sullivan Apr 21, 2019 ▶ 14:02 1366 ACT! and SalesLogix Founders New Company Hits $1m in ARR
Apr 21, 2019
Assertion Supported
Sullivan: ACT! Sold to Symantec in 1993 and Bought Back in 1999
“We sold it to Symantec in 1993 and then after I started SalesLogix and we went public, we actually bought it back from Symantec in 1999.”
Pat Sullivan Apr 21, 2019 ▶ 1:03 1366 ACT! and SalesLogix Founders New Company Hits $1m in ARR
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