Gus

25 statements across 3 episodes · 10 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 4, 2017 by Pablo Estevez · said 5 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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May 4, 2017
Disclosure
HolaGus charges 1 to 2 Mexican pesos per assisted conversation
“It goes anywhere between one to two Mexican pesos per assisted conversation.”
Pablo Estevez May 4, 2017 ▶ 2:38 649: HolaGus $1.4M Raised Helping Clients Automate Support with AI with CEO Pablo Estevez
Jul 15, 2019
Disclosure
Estevez: Gus would only consider acquisition offers above $3.5M
“Anything above three and a half, I guess.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 15, 2019 ▶ 15:51 1451 Spanish Speaking Verticalized ChatBot Company Closing $10k/mo+ Deals
Jul 15, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Estevez: Gus generates roughly 80% gross margins
“Roughly 80%.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 15, 2019 ▶ 7:03 1451 Spanish Speaking Verticalized ChatBot Company Closing $10k/mo+ Deals
Jul 15, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Estevez: Gus has roughly 35 customers, targeting 40
“Right now we're roughly around 35 customers maybe hitting 40 by the end of this month.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 15, 2019 ▶ 4:51 1451 Spanish Speaking Verticalized ChatBot Company Closing $10k/mo+ Deals
Jul 15, 2019
Assertion Supported
Estevez: Gus has raised $1.2 million in outside capital
“So right now we've raised 1.2 million”
Pablo Estevez Jul 15, 2019 ▶ 9:34 1451 Spanish Speaking Verticalized ChatBot Company Closing $10k/mo+ Deals
Jul 15, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
$3,000 monthly marketing spend yields 200 leads and 1-2 new customers
“So that's bringing in around I think 202 hundred, yeah, 200 inbound leads, which basically is coming in at one or two customers.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 15, 2019 ▶ 13:36 1451 Spanish Speaking Verticalized ChatBot Company Closing $10k/mo+ Deals
Jul 15, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Estevez: Gus should reach break-even within two to three months
“We should be reaching break even sometime in the next two to three months, so.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 15, 2019 ▶ 9:34 1451 Spanish Speaking Verticalized ChatBot Company Closing $10k/mo+ Deals
Jul 15, 2019 positive
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Estevez: Gus automates 80% to 96% of customer service requests
“Where we're basically automating anywhere between 80 to 96 in our most successful case of the customer service requests that a company gets.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 15, 2019 ▶ 3:40 1451 Spanish Speaking Verticalized ChatBot Company Closing $10k/mo+ Deals
Jul 15, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Estevez: Gus had 100% renewal rate across its first six enterprise clients
“Right now our first six companies had to renew and they all renewed which is obviously a good sign, but I wouldn't get too excited about it.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 15, 2019 ▶ 11:45 1451 Spanish Speaking Verticalized ChatBot Company Closing $10k/mo+ Deals
Jul 15, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Estevez: Gus reaches roughly $50,000 in monthly revenue
“So right now we're at roughly 50 K USD a month.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 15, 2019 ▶ 3:56 1451 Spanish Speaking Verticalized ChatBot Company Closing $10k/mo+ Deals
Jul 6, 2020
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Estevez: Gus operates with an 85% gross margin
“We have an 85% margin, so, so in theory, and we've just started exploring this, so”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 7:25 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Estevez: Gus expects to reach $7M to $10M ARR after Series A
“We expect to reach seven to ten million dollars on any recurring revenue with this round.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 6:35 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020 bullish
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Estevez: Gus Maintains 125% Net Revenue Retention Rate
“So we have 125% net revenue retention rate.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 12:57 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020
Disclosure
Estevez: Gus is targeting a $20M post-money valuation for Series A
“We're hoping to push for twenty million dollars post money.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 5:38 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Estevez: Gus has $80K-$90K in bank with 8 to 9 months runway
“Yeah, we have like 80, 90,000 dollars in the back, so we have eight or nine months.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 12:08 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020 neutral
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Estevez: Gus Churned $3,000 Out of $80,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue
“Those three customers were paying roughly like 3000 dollars a month out of like an 80,000 dollar. So, I mean, you know, so 3000 out of 80,000 dollars MR.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 12:33 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Estevez: Gus is burning roughly $10K per month
“Yeah, we're burning very little, but like roughly 10,000 dollars a month.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 12:01 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020 bullish
Disclosure
Estevez: Gus Enterprise Accounts Expanded From $1k-$3k to $10k-$12k Monthly
“We focused in the last year on just acquiring enterprise brands, and within enterprise brands, we must roughly have today signed, like, around 13, 14 customers, of which since we last spoke, we maybe had three or four, and those three or four that we last spok…”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 13:24 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020
Disclosure
Estevez: Gus Chat reaches between $100K and $120K in MRR
“No, we're doing around between a hundred and a 120.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 4:13 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Estevez: Gus has raised $1.5M in total funding to date
“Today, 1.5 million.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 4:58 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020
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Estevez: Gus Employs 12 Engineers Plus Four Partnered PhDs in Mexico
“Right now we have 12 engineers, but we have an interesting contract with a research lab in Mexico City which has an additional four PhDs, and the reason it's interesting is because they developed tech for us. We co-authored the patent to exploit it liquidly.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 9:51 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020
Disclosure
Estevez: Gus Chat generates an average of $7,500 per customer monthly
“Just take into account our general average would be seven, 7500 dollars a month.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 3:50 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020
Disclosure
Estevez: Gus Chat has scaled to around 45 customers
“We have around 45 customers.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 4:00 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Estevez: Gus reduced customer acquisition cost from $22K to $14K
“A lot of the focus for this year, we were way more focused on what's our cost of acquisition. We bought down from 22,000 dollars to 14,000 dollars.”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 10:48 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
Jul 6, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Estevez: Gus targets enterprise clients exclusively, unlike Drift
“We're a way more enterprise solution. So, so we actually work with a band, we do all the user experience consulting and then we create an enterprise solution that's implemented. It's way more robust, robust versus drift, which is just kind of like a few questi…”
Pablo Estevez Jul 6, 2020 ▶ 2:50 Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
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