Pedro Alves

9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 25, 2020 by Pedro Alves · across every show →

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Jun 25, 2020
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Alves: Ople currently has three fully contracted enterprise customers
“Three.”
Pedro Alves Jun 25, 2020 ▶ 15:35 AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
Jun 25, 2020 positive
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Alves: Most Ople enterprise customers pay six figures yearly, a couple pay seven figures
“Most companies are going to be in a six figure yearly engagement with us just because of the number of people they have. Got a few. They're going to be in the five figure. And then we have a couple that are in the seven low seven figure range yearly, but those…”
Pedro Alves Jun 25, 2020 ▶ 3:24 AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
Jun 25, 2020 neutral
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Alves says Ople sunk $500,000 into its MVP before first revenue
“So that first dollar revenue was still in the first year. So I want to say. Less than a million dollars. It was in the six figures because the first check we got was in the first year by summer probably. So I want to say let's ballpark it around 500,000.”
Pedro Alves Jun 25, 2020 ▶ 6:18 AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
Jun 25, 2020
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Alves: A $100,000 annual Ople subscription covers three to six user seats
“In, in that range, that's going to be in the three to six person team. So that's still, you know, company could be a medium sized company, but you have a small little team of analysts or business developers. And that's going to be the roughly given that range.”
Pedro Alves Jun 25, 2020 ▶ 4:14 AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
Jun 25, 2020 bullish
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Alves: Recent AI Exits Reached $300M-$400M on Just $3M-$5M ARR
“In the space that we're in, like if you look at AI, there's the last two exits that I saw were in the range of the companies had between three and five ARR and sold for between three and four hundred million dollars.”
Pedro Alves Jun 25, 2020 ▶ 19:56 AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
Jun 25, 2020 bearish
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Alves: Overvalued AI Startups at 200x-300x Multiples Will Fail Within a Year
“For those, I think if we wait a year, we're going to have a couple of those stories because I can see already the companies that are massively overinflated on the valuation and the amount raised in comparison to the revenue. I'm talking about, you know, betwee…”
Pedro Alves Jun 25, 2020 ▶ 21:29 AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
Jun 25, 2020 bearish
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Latka: Ople Burns More Cash Monthly Than Its Total Annual Revenue
“You're burning in a month more than what your total revenue annual run rate is right now.”
Nathan Latka Jun 25, 2020 ▶ 23:52 AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
Jun 25, 2020
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Alves: Early investors pushed Ople to charge per model built rather than per seat
“Initially investors really wanted us to charge per model built per project done.”
Pedro Alves Jun 25, 2020 ▶ 2:55 AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
Jun 25, 2020
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Alves: Ople is engaged with about 12 accounts across pilots and full deployments
“Today, customers that we're fully engaged with either in pilot or above, it's about a dozen post pilot, full, then we're talking about a handful.”
Pedro Alves Jun 25, 2020 ▶ 13:55 AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
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