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Ross Buhrdorf

23 statements across 4 episodes · 13 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 7, 2020 by Ross Buhrdorf · said 7 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Oct 7, 2020 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross Buhrdorf says ZenBusiness revenue is in the tens of millions
“You know, in the tens of millions in revenue. So revenue has grown explosively also.”
Ross Buhrdorf Oct 7, 2020 ▶ 5:22 ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months
Oct 7, 2020
Disclosure
Buhrdorf prefers users run five companies over pushing high single-business ACV
“I'd rather see our customers paying us a thousand dollars a month and have five different companies. Because that makes more sense than having, you know, a single company until it's, you know, got 10, 12, 20 customers, 20 employees, then they could move into t…”
Ross Buhrdorf Oct 7, 2020 ▶ 21:21 ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months
Oct 7, 2020 positive
Disclosure
ZenBusiness operates entirely digitally without quota-carrying sales representatives
“No, man, this is all digital, digital business, and that's what, you know, I think that's why you end up with those margins”
Ross Buhrdorf Oct 7, 2020 ▶ 23:53 ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months
Oct 7, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ZenBusiness maintains a monthly churn rate of 1.5% or lower
“1.5, and we're below that some months.”
Ross Buhrdorf Oct 7, 2020 ▶ 24:46 ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months
Oct 7, 2020 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross Buhrdorf says ZenBusiness has reached over 70,000 paying customers
“Over 70,000 customers.”
Ross Buhrdorf Oct 7, 2020 ▶ 3:59 ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months
Oct 7, 2020
Assertion Supported
Buhrdorf says small businesses use over 10 unintegrated apps on average
“On average, folks are using 10 plus different vertical applications that aren't integrated to get their businesses run”
Ross Buhrdorf Oct 7, 2020 ▶ 13:37 ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months
Jan 10, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Ross Buhrdorf owns more equity in ZenBusiness than HomeAway at comparable stage
“Oh my God. Yes.”
Ross Buhrdorf Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 25:17 ZenBusiness Breaks $45m Revenue Relentlessly Focusing on 220,000 Underserved Owners of Service Businesses
Jan 10, 2022 positive
Insight
Ross Buhrdorf: Funded startups should hire professional market research firms for surveys
“And I'd recommend, you know, a company that's got any amount of funding To use professionals, and professionals go out, they get the, they build the surveys and the questionnaires based on what you want to know, based on a lot of the early you know, survey mon…”
Ross Buhrdorf Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 6:14 ZenBusiness Breaks $45m Revenue Relentlessly Focusing on 220,000 Underserved Owners of Service Businesses
Jan 10, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross Buhrdorf: Early customer survey results accurately drove the ZenBusiness roadmap
“I was the first person at our company that did started surveys, and I used SurveyMonkey, and I asked quite literally, one of my first questions was, You know, rank the, ah, you know, check the box on these list of products that you would like to see on the pla…”
Ross Buhrdorf Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 7:11 ZenBusiness Breaks $45m Revenue Relentlessly Focusing on 220,000 Underserved Owners of Service Businesses
Jan 10, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross Buhrdorf: ZenBusiness adds 10,000 to 20,000 new customers per month
“Maybe that, that's probably too much, but over 10,000, between 10 and 20.”
Ross Buhrdorf Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 9:28 ZenBusiness Breaks $45m Revenue Relentlessly Focusing on 220,000 Underserved Owners of Service Businesses
Jan 10, 2022
Disclosure
Ross Buhrdorf: All full-time ZenBusiness employees own equity in the company
“All of my full-time employees have stock, and so do I. I'm the biggest Shareholder in the company.”
Ross Buhrdorf Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 20:05 ZenBusiness Breaks $45m Revenue Relentlessly Focusing on 220,000 Underserved Owners of Service Businesses
Jan 10, 2022 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross Buhrdorf: ZenBusiness revenue run rate recently passed $42 million
“Oh, hey, man, we're north of that.”
Ross Buhrdorf Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 12:45 ZenBusiness Breaks $45m Revenue Relentlessly Focusing on 220,000 Underserved Owners of Service Businesses
Jan 10, 2022
Insight
Ross Buhrdorf: Customer survey responses diverge from true willingness to pay
“Customers tell you one thing in a survey, but then when they put in their credit card, that's a different, it's a different thing.”
Ross Buhrdorf Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 4:02 ZenBusiness Breaks $45m Revenue Relentlessly Focusing on 220,000 Underserved Owners of Service Businesses
Jun 6, 2023 bullish
Disclosure
Hurt: ZenBusiness recently closed a round at a $1.7B valuation
“We're investors and his company, they recently closed around at 1.7 billion.”
Brett Hurt Jun 6, 2023 ▶ 24:56 How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats
May 21, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ZenBusiness CEO: 10 of 15 acquisitions targeted organic search rankings
“We've done 15 acquisitions. 10 of those acquisitions were organic search position.”
Ross Buhrdorf May 21, 2024 ▶ 8:31 Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
May 21, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Buhrdorf: ZenBusiness has more than doubled revenue since 2021
“Oh my god, yes.”
Ross Buhrdorf May 21, 2024 ▶ 6:57 Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
May 21, 2024
Disclosure
ZenBusiness allowed all eligible employees to sell 10% of vested equity
“It was for everybody that had vested, that had been here over a year and had vested, and then we did, ah, 10% of that.”
Ross Buhrdorf May 21, 2024 ▶ 20:54 Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
May 21, 2024 negative
Opinion
Buhrdorf: Founders should never hire a lawyer for company formation
“You know, when you do a formation, people come to me and say, hey, should I use a lawyer to do a formation? I say, absolutely not. Not only will they do it wrong because they don't do 1000 of thousands of these like we do, we make damn sure we do it right, hav…”
Ross Buhrdorf May 21, 2024 ▶ 10:53 Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
May 21, 2024
Disclosure
Buhrdorf confirms making over $10 million from HomeAway acquisition
“Oh, sure.”
Ross Buhrdorf May 21, 2024 ▶ 17:37 Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
May 21, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Ross Buhrdorf: ZenBusiness moved from free to paid and back to zero-dollar pricing
“We started out at free then we went to paid, And now the market is, ah, you know, we've been so successful. Now the market has went back to zero, which is where we've went”
Ross Buhrdorf May 21, 2024 ▶ 3:32 Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
May 21, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Buhrdorf: ZenBusiness refuses to offer features that do not generate revenue
“We're making money on everything. We, otherwise we don't.”
Ross Buhrdorf May 21, 2024 ▶ 12:12 Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
May 21, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
ZenBusiness raised $205M at a $1.7B valuation
“We raised the last round at 1.7 billion and raised, you know, two hundred and five million bucks.”
Ross Buhrdorf May 21, 2024 ▶ 19:21 Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
May 21, 2024 positive
Insight
Founders and employees should always take secondary liquidity, Buhrdorf argues
“No, man, you should always take money off the table. What are you talking about?”
Ross Buhrdorf May 21, 2024 ▶ 21:35 Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
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