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Adam Robinson

25 statements across 5 episodes · 13 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 24, 2016 by Adam Robinson · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Nov 24, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Robinson: Hireology averages around $300 per location monthly and is increasing
“Per location, per month, the average, we're running into around 300 dollars a month on average. Okay. That's, which is increasing.”
Adam Robinson Nov 24, 2016 ▶ 7:58 EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson
Nov 24, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Robinson: Allscripts drove 40% of prior company revenue before insourcing
“Last, last company you know, I had a customer responsible for about 40% of our revenue and, you know, it was a rocket ship ride for three years, and, you know, we really scaled along with them you know, the company was all scripts, they're in the electronical …”
Adam Robinson Nov 24, 2016 ▶ 7:16 EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson
Nov 24, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hireology Generated Under $200,000 in First-Year Revenue in 2010
“First year revenue in 2010 was just under 200,000 dollars.”
Adam Robinson Nov 24, 2016 ▶ 4:03 EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson
Dec 25, 2018 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hireology aims to grow ARR from $20M to $27M by year-end
“20 now, 27 at the end.”
Adam Robinson Dec 25, 2018 ▶ 6:00 1249 Hireology Passes $20m in ARR, Helping 5000+ Businesses Hire Better
Dec 25, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hireology's core sales CAC payback is under 11 months
“Generally we loved 10 to 11 month paybacks, you know, and if you're, if we're fully loading in customer success and support, sometimes we do it, sometimes we don't, depends on the analysis we're running, you know, that'll stretch it a little longer, but on cor…”
Adam Robinson Dec 25, 2018 ▶ 6:56 1249 Hireology Passes $20m in ARR, Helping 5000+ Businesses Hire Better
May 30, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Robinson: GetEmails runs on two engineers, including one dedicated to integrations
“Actually, we have two engineers. We have one guy who builds integrations full time, but doesn't touch the code. And the CTO is my co-founder and he's just like a super genius.”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 16:40 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
May 30, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Robinson: New GetEmails customers average 300k to 500k monthly unique visitors
“The people who were bringing on last year probably had an average of 10,000 unique monthly visitors, whereas everybody we're bringing on now has 300 to 500,000.”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 9:54 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
May 30, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Robinson: GetEmails' monthly revenue churn is in the single digits
“I mean, I'm not going to give an exact number, but it's single digits.”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 10:44 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
May 30, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Robinson: GetEmails distributes 100% of excess cash flow above $250k reserve
“So like we built up to that point and then now it's a one to one with the cash flow we generate.”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 14:54 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
May 30, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Robinson: GetEmails added $50K MRR last month with two salespeople
“We added 50 K MRR last month and we have two salespeople.”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 17:40 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
May 30, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Robinson: GetEmails pays monthly cash dividends to employees via shadow equity
“At the end of every month, if you have one percent shadow equity, I just write him a check for one percent. It comes out of the next month's expenses, if that makes sense.”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 14:23 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
May 30, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Robinson: GetEmails grew revenue 250% year-over-year
“We've grown 250% since a year ago”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 16:03 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
May 30, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Robinson: GetEmails unlikely to sell for $15M-$20M cash
“Probably not for 15 or 20. I just think it's grown so fast that, that there's somebody out there who likes it for more than that.”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 18:33 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
May 30, 2021
Disclosure
Robinson owns 42% of GetEmails and his previous company
“I own 42% of the last company and I own 42% of this one.”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 7:36 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
May 30, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Robinson: 75% of GetEmails' top 25 customers have stayed over a year
“So looking at it by segments our top 25 has been around for 75% has been around for over a year.”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 10:11 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
May 30, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Robinson: GetEmails has 750 paying customers
“750 paying customers.”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 9:48 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
May 30, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adam Robinson: GetEmails targets $6.5M–$7M run-rate by end of 2021
“My whole idea was like, get it to the end of the year, be doing six and a half or seven, because we've got a couple other growth things that are going to crush it.”
Adam Robinson May 30, 2021 ▶ 20:59 Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Robinson spends $50,000 monthly on LinkedIn audience and video production
“Like, the consultant I use is, 12,500 dollars a month, but we're using it for four people. It's an integral part of our PLG, so I'm paying somebody who works with him 15 grand to manage outbound communication off of my profile, and set meetings, and move peopl…”
Adam Robinson Apr 30, 2024 ▶ 18:39 Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably
Apr 30, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Robinson: Retention.com grew to $22M ARR bootstrapped in four years
“I've been on this entrepreneurial journey for 11 years, and I started this company that's now twenty-two million ARR four years ago, and before that, I was stuck at three million ARR for four years.”
Adam Robinson Apr 30, 2024 ▶ 1:27 Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably
Apr 30, 2024
Disclosure
Robinson paid himself $4 million from Retention.com last year
“I paid myself four million dollars last year”
Adam Robinson Apr 30, 2024 ▶ 10:40 Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably
Oct 17, 2024 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Jasper AI scaled to $50M ARR in 12 months with six employees
“Zero to fifty million ARR with like an island of six people in 12 months.”
Adam Robinson Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 3:03 Adam Robinson Shares Profit and Loss, $22m Revenue, Strategy behind Linkedin and Lawsuit
Oct 17, 2024
Disclosure
Retention.com reached $12M ARR with six employees before reinvesting all profits
“We were twelve million ARR with six people, and I basically just took all the free cash and put it into trying to create what I viewed as, like, the unicorn company, and, like, honed it in an ICP, thinking it was gonna, like, completely solve this term problem…”
Adam Robinson Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 3:27 Adam Robinson Shares Profit and Loss, $22m Revenue, Strategy behind Linkedin and Lawsuit
Oct 17, 2024 negative
Disclosure
RB2B experiences brutal 10% monthly churn and a nine-month customer LTV
“Like, 10% a month. It's, we just had an agency, like, cancel 80 accounts and put them under one account, so it looks like it's even worse than 10% a month, but like, it's like a nine month LTV.”
Adam Robinson Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 12:46 Adam Robinson Shares Profit and Loss, $22m Revenue, Strategy behind Linkedin and Lawsuit
Oct 17, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Clearbit Reveal solved massive churn by expanding usage across multiple departments
“So I talked to the Clearbit team, the Clearbit reveal team. They said churn was a disaster for that product, and the only thing they could do to lower churn was get other people using other products in other departments.”
Adam Robinson Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 15:27 Adam Robinson Shares Profit and Loss, $22m Revenue, Strategy behind Linkedin and Lawsuit
Oct 17, 2024 positive
Insight
Robinson: Data Businesses Scale to Better Margins Than Traditional SaaS
“The margins, I think, are typically better than SAS as you keep scaling. You know, you kind of have this, like, wonderful quality where you compile a lot of data at SAS margins, and then You don't really have to increase the spend on that data if you do it the…”
Adam Robinson Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 5:43 Adam Robinson Shares Profit and Loss, $22m Revenue, Strategy behind Linkedin and Lawsuit
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