Trust & Will

17 statements across 3 episodes · 10 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 12, 2020 by Cody Barbo · said 34 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Jun 12, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Trust packages at $500 drive significant revenue for Trust & Will
“The trust makes up a considerable amount of our revenue, considering that our base products, the guardian is at 50 dollars and our trust product is at 500. It is a 10 X jump to the trust.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 5:53 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Trust & Will surpassed a $1M revenue run rate in 2019
“Revenue run rate, yeah, we broke a million in 2019, which was awesome.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 20:02 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 negative
Insight
Why offering free estate planning products creates consumer distrust
“Because we felt that a free product within estate planning can actually communicate distrust. Well, what's the catch if I'm making these sensitive decisions, right? What's the catch of a free estate planning document? So that's why we like the paid product.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 13:47 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
1% of Trust & Will users organically return to update documents
“So we're seeing about one in a hundred folks come back to make that initial update without any marketing around the fact that, hey, you should come back and update if you've had any of these life events as triggers.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 11:02 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Traditional estate planning attorneys charge between $2,000 and $5,000
“Because it's kind of crazy, like an estate plan, if you go to an attorney, you're going to spend anywhere from two to 5000 dollars to set this up, just to make a simple update, like you had another kid, you bought a new property, you moved It might cost you a …”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 4:55 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 bullish
Disclosure
Trust & Will targets 300,000 financial advisors for channel sales
“So one of the roles that we're hiring for right now is a channel sales rep. We want to tap into the 300,000 financial advisors, wealth managers, CFPs in the country that often talk to their clients about estate planning from day one.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 17:19 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Trust & Will has surpassed 5,000 paying customers
“I mean, it's north, it's between comfortably sharing north of 5000.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 14:14 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Trust & Will spent roughly $200,000 to develop its MVP
“And then by the time we finished tech stars, I think we wrapped up like you could call it pre-seed funding, but we had collected about half a million dollars at that point, but we had invested a couple 100,000 to get the product to where it needed to be.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 9:22 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Trust & Will converts 10% to 20% of its 100+ daily signups
“We're seeing about a hundred signups a day or more, which is fantastic. And our conversion is anywhere from 10 to 20%, depending on the product, depending on the day.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 9:48 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Barbo predicts a $1M subscription run rate for 2020
“We'll break a million dollar subscription run rate as well.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 21:10 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Trust & Will executed the first US electronic will in 2019
“And then we have our kind of history defining milestone was last year in January, we did the first electronic will in history, US history, which means digital signature, digital notary, digital storage of documents.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 7:30 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Trust & Will has reached 65,000 total user sign-ups
“We've had about 65,000 people sign up for Trust & Wealth for one of those three products.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 7:13 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Haven Life includes free Trust & Will products for policyholders
“So we have Haven Life where they have a benefits package called Haven Life Plus. They've wrapped in our will as a free will for their life insurance policyholders.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 15:30 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Trust & Will charges returning canceled users full price for updates
“That if they canceled out of the subscription, they came back in three years because they had another kid, they want to update their trust, it's going to cost them the full purchase price versus that 50 bucks a year recurring.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 19:14 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Jun 12, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Trust & Will raised a $2M seed and $6M Series A
“We raised our seed round that we announced in January of last year of two million. We announced our series a last month of six million.”
Cody Barbo Jun 12, 2020 ▶ 7:01 Trust and Will Company Passes 5k Customers, $1m in ARR Digital Way to Do Estate Planning
Dec 23, 2020
Assertion Supported
Bury: Willful offers family plans while Trust & Will uses subscriptions
“So for example, we have a family plan where you can buy multiple plans. They don't. So it's a way for them to validate that. They all have subscription. We don't.”
Erin Bury Dec 23, 2020 ▶ 12:20 Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning
Jan 25, 2022 neutral
Prediction Held up
Bala predicts competitor Trust & Will will add document storage features
“Trust & Will right now has been focusing on estates, on will, sorry, and trust. As they get bigger into the US, I'm sure they're going to start to build this idea of, you know, document storage and guided journeys.”
Suchin Bala Jan 25, 2022 ▶ 12:22 Life Planning SaaS Hits $5k in MRR, Raises $1m on $6m Seed Round
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