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Ryan Urban

29 statements across 3 episodes · 13 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 3, 2016 by Ryan Urban · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Jun 3, 2016
Disclosure
Urban: Bounce Exchange operated for over two years without raising venture capital
“Yeah, so we went over two years without raising any VC money at all. And that money, not, not all that money went into the business. Somebody wanted to clean, clean up the cap table a bit.”
Ryan Urban Jun 3, 2016 ▶ 10:26 From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban
Jun 3, 2016 negative
Disclosure
Urban plans to raise venture capital without a pitch deck
“I'm going to raise money without a deck. I don't give a shit about a deck. It's like, here, you're, this is what we're doing right now. You're going to want to work with us. This is what we mean. this is what we want to do going forward. And people are …”
Ryan Urban Jun 3, 2016 ▶ 25:46 From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban
Jun 3, 2016 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Urban: Bounce Exchange has between 250 and 300 paying enterprise clients
“So a number of clients, and we probably on like 700 something websites, but paying clients is, is I think Somewhere between 250 to 300.”
Ryan Urban Jun 3, 2016 ▶ 13:15 From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban
Jun 3, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Urban turned down a $300,000 Bonobos offer to start Bounce Exchange
“They offered me 300,000 dollars plus to stay, so I turned that down to make zero, and I think 2013, I made It was our first, like, real full year. I made a little more 30,000 dollars that year”
Ryan Urban Jun 3, 2016 ▶ 5:53 From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban
Jun 3, 2016 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Urban: Bounce Exchange generated approximately $17M in 2015 revenue
“Last year, I think we did like seventeen million.”
Ryan Urban Jun 3, 2016 ▶ 11:32 From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban
Jun 3, 2016 bullish
Prediction Not publicly verifiable
Urban: Bounce Exchange aims to hit a $40M run rate by year-end 2016
“Our run rate will try to end this year at 30, forty million. Oh, well, definitely way more than, and in terms of and your MRR, your ARR is your annual recurring revenue or your committed annual recurring revenue. That's the important number for an immature Saa…”
Ryan Urban Jun 3, 2016 ▶ 11:34 From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban
Jun 3, 2016 negative
Disclosure
Urban: Bounce Exchange deliberately avoided traditional outbound sales playbooks
“When you look at how all these B to B companies grew, it was because they had a fleet of salespeople, a fleet of these SDR sales development reps that are emailing, calling everybody blogs, white paper, social media, trade shows, spending a ton of money on AdW…”
Ryan Urban Jun 3, 2016 ▶ 8:52 From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban
Jul 13, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Urban: BounceX has around 1,000 paid customer websites
“We're probably on about a thousand websites. So is that paid customers though? Yes, it is.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 9:38 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Urban: Less than 5% of e-commerce website visitors are logged in
“To scale triggers, you need identification because less on e-commerce websites, less than five percent of people logged in.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 3:01 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020 negative
Insight
Urban: People consume too many books and podcasts without taking action
“If you listen to something, if you read something, you got to take action immediately. That's it. But people read way too much.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 30:00 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020 negative
Insight
Moving down-market takes the most product work and is the worst strategy
“Actually, the most product work is moving down market, and it's the worst.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 20:54 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Urban: BounceX is cash-flow positive and near profitability
“Our cash balance is going up now. So we're close to profitability, but we're cashflow positive.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 17:12 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020 negative
Opinion
Launching new products into new markets makes you a 'complete idiot'
“Anyone who does new products to new markets is a complete idiot.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 20:47 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020 bullish
Prediction Held up
BounceX will end 2020 well north of $100M in revenue
“We'll, we'll end the year well north of a hundred million.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 18:15 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020
Insight
Urban: Founders Must Control Their Boards and Communicate Directly
“Make sure you have a good relationship with your board, but control your board. Tell them what's up, so.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 31:45 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020 bullish
Disclosure
BounceX would reject a $1 billion pre-IPO buyout offer
“Not a chance.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 29:18 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020 positive
Disclosure
BounceX has deployed only ~$30M of its $60M raised
“Altogether, we probably have about 60 into the biz, and we, then you minus your, the cash and balance sheet, and we've probably deployed somewhere in the thirties.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 17:56 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Urban: BounceX will probably finish the year above 40% growth
“We're probably, we'll probably finish a year more than that.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 24:26 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020 neutral
Insight
SaaS companies can borrow 0.8x to 1.2x ARR in venture debt
“You can leverage about depending on the strength of your business, somewhere between .8 and 1.2 times your AR, and we can flex up a little more.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 15:08 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
BounceX spent $200K helicoptering CEOs to a US Open suite
“We just spent about 200 K, we rented a private suite of the US Open Finals, we choppered these CEOs into our, basically our suite was, and we also had other CEOs out and like, so they got to kind of meet some other like CEOs or CMOs of big companies. They got …”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 24:58 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Urban: BounceX bootstrapped to $1M ARR before raising $1.5M in 2013
“Then we took, then after we got to about 70 K in MRR, so, we got to about the a million dollar AR point. Then we and we had good pipeline, then we raised a bit. We only raised, this is 2013 mid 2013. We only raised a million and a half bucks when we could have…”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 12:30 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Jul 13, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Urban: BounceX boosts client revenue 10% to 15% within 90 days
“Typically we're any business we work with, we're able to increase their revenue by say five to 20% within, within, within 90 days. And it's usually more in the 10 to 15% range.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 3:28 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Nov 23, 2021
Disclosure
Urban: Roughly half of Wunderkind's $75M funding was venture debt
“Say it's about half and half the debt. We, we've acquired five companies.”
Ryan Urban Nov 23, 2021 ▶ 18:51 Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023
Nov 23, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Urban: Wunderkind conducted a pre-IPO crossover fund process
“So I actually was on a we did do a kind of a pre IPO like a crossover fund process. And I really wanted to kind process. And I really wanted to kind of, Introduce what Wunderkin does to a lot of the public company investors.”
Ryan Urban Nov 23, 2021 ▶ 1:48 Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023
Nov 23, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Urban: Wunderkind will probably go public, potentially in 2022 or 2023
“Because at some point it could be next year, it could be early at 23, whenever, whenever, whenever we feel it's appropriate. Yeah. We're probably going to be a public company at some point and something we're looking forward to.”
Ryan Urban Nov 23, 2021 ▶ 2:01 Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023
Nov 23, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Urban: Wunderkind's advertising division will approach $100M revenue next year
“I would say next year. Oh, definitely. I'd say next year we'd be getting closer to Getting close to nine figures in revenue on that.”
Ryan Urban Nov 23, 2021 ▶ 15:06 Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023
Nov 23, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Urban: Wunderkind's annual revenue is in the $150M ballpark
“So it's you're in the ballpark, so.”
Ryan Urban Nov 23, 2021 ▶ 8:12 Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023
Nov 23, 2021
Insight
Urban: The primary reason to take a company public is attracting talent
“But I mean, the reason to go public is, is really just attract talent. That's the main thing.”
Ryan Urban Nov 23, 2021 ▶ 20:47 Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023
Nov 23, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Urban: Wunderkind will soon reach 800 to 1,000 employees
“We're probably by the time this airs, maybe even a thousand people will probably be 800 people soon.”
Ryan Urban Nov 23, 2021 ▶ 3:00 Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023
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