COVID

“Before COVID hit, we were expecting about 1.5 million. So that shows you that a lot of deals, they're not lost, but many are postponing the decision to see what's going to be happening.”

“The waitlist side before COVID was around 80,000, and that was over nine months.”

“We've had about four different takeout offers during COVID as well, I should mention.”

“Our existing customers have, there's been no churn at all.”

“Before COVID, we were. We believe we'll be back there. It's hard to, again, calculate. We're looking at it month by month, but yes, we're a company that is, is above a hundred percent net revenue retention.”

“Yeah, well we doubled and that's really cool because we had to cut our budget because of the COVID. And so we spent less money in 2020 than 2019, but we added more revenue than ever before.”

“So last year we wanted, we plan on tripling the business last year, but with, The COVID lightning strike in March. I adjusted that down to doubling the business last year. We ended up growing the company by 250%. So more than doubled the business last year.”

“I'd say slight tailwind. I mean, what you've seen is that consumers are looking you know, whether or not that they are personally impacted, they know people are impacted, they're thinking about their finances rates are relatively low. And so you've seen a lot …”

“Our revenue numbers this year will be about one hundred and seventy million, but we also measure our underlying distance. That ticketing vertical and our travel vertical is still massively affected. So we should, Surpassed two hundred million in the underlying…”

“COVID came in 35% revenue lost first month, and I got shocked.”

“I mean, luckily we didn't lose a single client, a single employee. Andrei Spivak (Andrei Spivovic): We didn't lose clients. Andrei Spivak (Andrei Spivovic): We just lost the revenue. Andrei Spivak (Andrei Spivovic): We gave them free accounts until they rec…”

“COVID is going to drop obviously very quickly over the next couple of months.”

“Revenue went to zero. Events went to zero. Everything shut down which was a horrible experience, terrifying.”

“When COVID started, we had a huge surge, and I think this was around the time when we spoke the last time, the first time with you and we were really hopeful that this is gonna stay, but then a year ago, we saw a huge plunge”

“No, actually, I would say our most recent round has been a little bit lower than that. Just because of COVID and pandemic it's generally brought that down a little.”

“As our deal size has gotten larger, we've seen explosive growth through COVID, which was frankly surprises the investor community, but it doesn't surprise us.”

“What we did then was that actually we contacted the customers we had in, in, in hospitality industry and just said, okay, let's pause your payments for the upcoming three months and see what happens with COVID. And then after four months, everyone was back and…”

“I wanted us to diversify into recession proof or recession resistant industries. So we went into drug stores, retail sports goods, things that, that would pass through this and we're keeping that effort, which has proven to be one of the best decisions ever, e…”

“We had a client who was doing, like, 300,000 a year went bankrupt, right?”

“How COVID actually saved us. So in the early days of COVID, we were very scared, but actually it turned out to be more of a positive.”

“Our clients were, during COVID, we had a 50% drop in our revenue, but the clients came, came through it, and in 90 plus percent of them stayed”

“Pre-COVID we were 24. When we scaled down to nine during COVID to kind of keep it lean, you know, our costs and went down or had to go down. So our revenue went down by two thirds.”