Skillshare

13 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 17, 2017 by Evan Leong · said 26 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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2020 3 mentions in 1 episode

Albert Wenger on Work After Capital Jun 17, 2020 · 3 mentions · from 29:06
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2018 20 mentions in 1 episode

955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library Mar 6, 2018 · 20 mentions · from 0:52
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2017 3 mentions in 1 episode

785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code Sep 17, 2017 · 3 mentions · from 10:42
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Sep 17, 2017 neutral

Disclosure

Leong: Udemy generates 90% of DevSlopes' marketplace revenue

“Udemy takes, like, I would say right now, like, 90% of it. And then the other 10% is, like, scattered across the Skillshare.”

Evan Leong Sep 17, 2017 ▶ 10:58 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

Mar 6, 2018

Insight

Karnjanaprakorn: Filter startup ideas by whether you would commit for 10+ years

“To narrow that list down, you know, the filter I had was like, would I be able to work on this for 10 plus years? And it narrowed it down to things that are very impact and mission driven.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 5:01 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

Mar 6, 2018 positive

Insight

Karnjanaprakorn: Expanding content library directly lowers Skillshare's revenue churn

“So every year as we have more content, we see that number go up which also drives up engagement and drives down revenue churn. So we definitely see a correlation for sure.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 2:16 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

Mar 6, 2018 positive

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Karnjanaprakorn: Skillshare's monthly subscriber churn is in the single digits

“So I would say we're definitely, you know, in the single digits for monthly churn it improves year over year.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 9:49 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

Mar 6, 2018 bullish

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Skillshare founder predicts catalog will reach 100K to 1M courses

“And we think as we add more classes, we'll have a 100,000, if not a million courses on every single skill for one set price.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 12:57 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

Mar 6, 2018

Disclosure

Skillshare plans career layer recommending jobs and networking connections

“Our vision is to create what we call this ecosystem for the new economy. So we want to add a career layer where we can start recommending jobs, other pieces of content for you, other people you should interact with.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 7:52 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

Mar 6, 2018 bullish

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Karnjanaprakorn: Skillshare revenue is doubling year-over-year and well above $10M

“We're doubling year over year revenues and, you know, way above ten million.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 6:05 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

Mar 6, 2018 neutral

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Karnjanaprakorn: Consumer SaaS charging $5-$20 monthly sees $10-$50 CAC

“I think for our price point, for any consumer SaaS description business, you'll see, you know, CAC rate from anywhere from 10 to 50 dollars. For a price point anywhere between let's say five and 20 dollars per month. So let's say we're within that range.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 14:36 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

Mar 6, 2018

Disclosure

Skillshare launched on $5K of founder capital before raising $25M

“We launched Skillshare with, you know, less than 25 K your own money, our own capital. Honestly, we only spent probably five K of it. And then today we've raised about twenty five million to date.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 11:03 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

Mar 6, 2018 bullish

Insight

Karnjanaprakorn: Subscription models with the biggest content libraries win digital media

“If you think about publishing, you think about entertainment, think about music, all of those businesses on their internet, you know, they all fell to subscription models that had the biggest libraries. And those are the ones that usually win over time.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 12:33 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

Mar 6, 2018 neutral

Disclosure

Karnjanaprakorn: Skillshare users split evenly between monthly and annual plans

“So you can, it's either 15 dollars a month or a hundred dollars a year. So about half of our users opt into one of those two plans.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 1:49 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

Mar 6, 2018 neutral

Insight

Karnjanaprakorn: Watching one hour monthly makes Skillshare subscribers sticky

“About an hour, which is roughly maybe one and a half classes.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 2:37 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

Mar 6, 2018

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Skillshare reaches 3.5 million registered users and 17,000 online classes

“So we have about three, three and a half million registered users, 17,000 online course classes from about 5000 teachers.”

Michael Karnjanaprakorn Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 5:54 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library

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