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Gary Guseinov

12 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 1, 2016 by Gary Guseinov · across every show →

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Dec 1, 2016 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Gary Guseinov raised nearly $100 million for U.S. Tech Support
“I've raised close to seventy million plus, about close to a hundred million actually for this company.”
Gary Guseinov Dec 1, 2016 ▶ 2:51 EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov
Dec 1, 2016
Disclosure
Gary Guseinov acquired Business Hangouts for less than $1 million
“No, it's, it was less than a million dollars.”
Gary Guseinov Dec 1, 2016 ▶ 15:32 EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov
Dec 1, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gary Guseinov scaled AnchorFree revenue to $20 million in 18 months
“I helped them go from three hundred million users to four hundred million users. Grew revenues from zero to twenty million a year in about 18 months.”
Gary Guseinov Dec 1, 2016 ▶ 4:04 EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov
Dec 1, 2016 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Business Hangouts had 1.7 million users when Gary Guseinov acquired it
“It had over 1.7 million enterprise users, so these are people who, who've downloaded the application, installed it in their Google account. And it had, has over 700,000 registered users and has 70,000 enterprise users.”
Gary Guseinov Dec 1, 2016 ▶ 5:52 EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov
Mar 14, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guseinov: RealDefense will reach $60M to $70M revenue in 2025
“Ah, between 60 and 70.”
Gary Guseinov Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 18:24 From $7M to $70M Revenue: How RealDefense Scaled Through Acquisitions | Gary Guseinov
Mar 14, 2026 negative
Insight
Guseinov: Operating roll-up acquisitions as standalone entities is inefficient
“Building businesses that are standalone entities and growing them individually is not an efficient use of your time and your resources, because they benefit from each other more than they benefit just from your technology that you bring it to the table.”
Gary Guseinov Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 19:37 From $7M to $70M Revenue: How RealDefense Scaled Through Acquisitions | Gary Guseinov
Mar 14, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guseinov: Stock-backed loans carry interest rates of 10% to 15%+
“I'll be between 10 and 15%. It could be even higher, depending on, well, again, how risky it is.”
Gary Guseinov Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 14:18 From $7M to $70M Revenue: How RealDefense Scaled Through Acquisitions | Gary Guseinov
Mar 14, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guseinov: RealDefense was bought back for under $10M
“Yeah, so it is, ah, a relatively small amount, less than ten million dollars.”
Gary Guseinov Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 1:03 From $7M to $70M Revenue: How RealDefense Scaled Through Acquisitions | Gary Guseinov
Mar 14, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Guseinov: Founder retains less than 20% equity in RealDefense
“Less than 20, and the reason is, is because when we started the business, we started with multiple partners. It's not a dilutive effect that took place.”
Gary Guseinov Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 20:06 From $7M to $70M Revenue: How RealDefense Scaled Through Acquisitions | Gary Guseinov
Mar 14, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guseinov: RealDefense will generate $20M to $25M in EBITDA in 2025
“No, it's between 20 and 25.”
Gary Guseinov Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 18:29 From $7M to $70M Revenue: How RealDefense Scaled Through Acquisitions | Gary Guseinov
Mar 14, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Guseinov: RealDefense targets $100M-plus acquisitions from multibillion pipeline
“I have a multi-billion dollar pipeline. So we're looking for bigger deals now. So before we were doing deals under a hundred million, under fifty million. Now we're more interested in deals that are a hundred million plus.”
Gary Guseinov Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 18:41 From $7M to $70M Revenue: How RealDefense Scaled Through Acquisitions | Gary Guseinov
Mar 14, 2026 positive
Insight
Guseinov: Stock-collateralized loans let founders access liquidity tax-free
“There's lots of ways to structure these loans, and that the money you receive from these loans is not income. It's debt. So you're not paying taxes on it. So it's, you know, eventually going to pay taxes on it when the stock is sold, but you are in a relativel…”
Gary Guseinov Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 13:13 From $7M to $70M Revenue: How RealDefense Scaled Through Acquisitions | Gary Guseinov
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