James Smith

7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 25, 2017 by James Smith · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Aug 25, 2017 neutral

Disclosure

Only four of 35 Bugsnag employees handle sales and success

“I have I have two sales reps and I have one head of customer success and I have one technical support engineer. So we have four people out of 35.”

James Smith Aug 25, 2017 ▶ 4:12 762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised

Aug 25, 2017

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Bugsnag achieves standard SaaS gross margins despite processing heavy data

“We are definitely in the typical SAS gross margins range. We are, it's interesting for us, that's, Harder to achieve because we have a data intensive SAS product. So we, I think there's billions of crash reports per day coming into our servers these days. So a…”

James Smith Aug 25, 2017 ▶ 18:15 762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised

Aug 25, 2017

Disclosure

Bugsnag spent zero dollars on paid acquisition until recently

“So if you'd have asked me this question six months ago, I would have said zero dollars. So we have all of our growth pretty much has been through word of mouth.”

James Smith Aug 25, 2017 ▶ 16:33 762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised

Aug 25, 2017 positive

Assertion Contradicted

Pinterest changed its employee option exercise window to be unlimited

“Pinterest changed that window to be unlimited infinity window. So you don't even have to make that call, which is super exciting.”

James Smith Aug 25, 2017 ▶ 8:48 762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised

Aug 25, 2017

Disclosure

Bugsnag gives employees the option to early exercise equity

“This is something we did at bug snag as well. Give employees the option to early exercise.”

James Smith Aug 25, 2017 ▶ 9:49 762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised

Aug 25, 2017 positive

Disclosure

Bugsnag bootstrapped to profitability before raising venture capital

“We bootstrapped for the first kind of six to nine months. And we were profitable. That's by the time we went out to raise around.”

James Smith Aug 25, 2017 ▶ 10:52 762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised

Aug 25, 2017 neutral

Disclosure

Bugsnag pricing spans $29 to tens of thousands monthly

“We kind of see anything all the way down at 29 bucks a month. We've got customers that are paying tens of thousands a month. So it kind of really depends on the scale of the business. So I think the bulk of our customers are down in the SMB territory.”

James Smith Aug 25, 2017 ▶ 2:35 762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised

James Smith

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