Bee AI

also referred to as: bee

includes BEE Plugin, Bee Pro

17 statements across 2 episodes · 10 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 8, 2020 by Nazareno Gorni · said 25 times in 5 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Nazareno Gorni (11), Nathan Latka (8), Palash Soni (3), Massimo Arrigoni (3)

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Jul 8, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gorni: MailUp Group's BEE plugin achieves negative 6% to 7% net churn
“It's about six, seven percent negative.”
Nazareno Gorni Jul 8, 2020 ▶ 10:23 MailUpGroup Market Cap Is $65m, CEO Feels Undervalued
Jul 8, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Gorni: BEE reached $3M and Datatrics reached $2M in revenue
“For example, B is, is going from one million to three million, so three times, and that is going from two million one million to two million dollars, so very good.”
Nazareno Gorni Jul 8, 2020 ▶ 4:50 MailUpGroup Market Cap Is $65m, CEO Feels Undervalued
Oct 16, 2022
Insight
Arrigoni: Budget $2,000 to $2,500 per head for annual company retreats
“I would budget if I were you at least 2000 dollars a person, 2000 to 2500 dollars a person for that one time company retreat that you do every year.”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 23:16 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Arrigoni: Bee allows users into its product in two clicks without signup
“So eight years later, you can still with two clicks be into the product. We don't ask you for anything, no email, no signup, nothing.”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 13:38 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022
Disclosure
Arrigoni: Bee has 70 employees with roughly 50% based in Italy
“About 50% of our staff is in Italy. So B is about 70 people right now.”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 2:15 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arrigoni: Over 20,000 people used Bee during its 2014 launch weekend
“This is the website in when we launched in the 2014 and we got lucky. It was written up in Hacker News and some other places, and we had over 20,000 people that experienced our builder in 2014 and the first weekend.”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 13:05 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arrigoni: Bee's marketing team initially avoided its landing page builder
“When we launched the landing page builder at B, turns out the marketing department was not building landing pages with our own tool.”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 14:54 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Arrigoni: Growens trades at 1x on €70M sales; Bee hits €10M ARR
“Groen's is basically trading at about one time sales. It's not all ARR. So it's about seventy million euros in, in sales, and it trades at about one time that today on the Italian stock exchange. And B does around ten million ARR.”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 4:35 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arrigoni: Bee converts an exceptional 15% of website visits into signups
“So today we convert 15% of every site visit into a Bepo signup”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 18:59 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Arrigoni: Half of Bee's ARR Comes From Embedded Software Integrations
“And after eight years, the business is still pretty much split in half. So half of the ARR is from software companies that pay us because they embedded our visual builder, and then there's the other half.”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 9:38 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Arrigoni: Bee booked a Sicily beach resort for €70 per person nightly
“This year we're gonna go to Sicily again in Italy, and the first week in October, about 70 people for the team retreat, and the per person, this is a beautiful resort on the beach, 70 euros per night, per person. It's practically impossible to find that kind o…”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 2:34 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arrigoni: Over 65% of Bee Pro churn stems from infrequent usage
“These are some of the reasons why people were churning last you know, few years that this is our B pro products. So the online design suite, and if you look at the top four reasons, it's about 60% over 65%, sorry, of total churn. They weren't leaving because t…”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 17:45 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 positive
Insight
Arrigoni: Remote teams must meet in person to build interpersonal buffers
“I'm absolutely convinced that you need to get people together to build that buffer that will then help you when shit happens.”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 22:57 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bee experienced a 60% overall increase in signups from freemium
“Overall, 60% increase in signups from introducing a freemium plan and a few UI changes.”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 20:52 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bee saw a 2,250% increase in builder workflow conversion
“When we switched to this there was a 2250% increase In the conversion of people that were in the builder and went to the next page.”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 20:17 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 negative
Insight
Arrigoni: Remote work is a talent strategy, not a cost-saver
“When people say, oh, we're going to save a bunch of money by running a remote company. Not necessarily. Running a remote company could be expensive. It's a talent tech. Strategy. A hundred percent because now the total addressable market of people that you're …”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 23:57 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
Oct 16, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bee active user YoY growth jumped from 17% to over 55%
“The year over year rate before it was around 17% and it shot up to over 55%. But the interesting thing is that it wasn't just any users, even the heavy users of the application, the growth rate for those heavy users went from around 15% over year over year to …”
Massimo Arrigoni Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 21:22 Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
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