U.S.

also referred to as: the u.s.

28 statements across 25 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 25 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2016 by Whitson Gordon · across every show →

Everything said about U.S., oldest first

Mar 5, 2016 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Gordon: Lifehacker grew from 4M to 15M US monthly uniques
“Monthly uniques were probably about four million, and now Lifehacker is pulling in you know, the fifteen million, and that's just in the U.S.”
Whitson Gordon Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 3:57 How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187
May 25, 2017 negative
Assertion Supported
Stein: Financial services captured 40% of US corporate profits in early 2000s
“At that time, 40% of all the financial profits in the U.S. Were coming from financial services.”
John Stein May 25, 2017 ▶ 4:11 670: Betterment Vs. Vanguard, Betterment Passes 200,000 Investors, $8B in AUM with CEO Jon Stein
Jun 9, 2017 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Jumper: SIGNiX is North America's only cloud digital signature provider
“So, we're the only cloud-based digital signature company in the U.S. Or North America. Everybody else is a e-signature solution.”
Jay Jumper Jun 9, 2017 ▶ 1:33 685: He Loved A Product, So Acquired Whole Business with Doc Signing Signix CEO Jay Jumper
Jul 10, 2017 negative
Opinion
Putin wages asymmetrical cyber warfare due to a low defense budget
“Vladimir Putin is essentially waging a sort of a low-grade cyber war against the U.S., which is, in his perspective, asymmetrical warfare, because they only have 10% of the defense budget that we do, and so he's harassing U.S., you know, both profits and non-…”
Stu Sjouwerman Jul 10, 2017 ▶ 13:10 716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year
Jul 12, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Korber: BreezoMeter employs 23 people across Israel and the US
“So, currently we are 23 employees. 21 in Israel and two in the U.S.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 8:25 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Apr 16, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Daniels: Results.com historical logo retention was 50% in the US
“Retention in New Zealand was in the 70 percentile, and in the U.S. It was in the 50 percentile, so very low.”
Mark Daniels Apr 16, 2018 ▶ 8:55 996 Guess Why This $600m Man Came out of "Martha Vineyard" Retirement
Nov 18, 2018
Assertion Supported
SmartAssistant employs over 100 people across the US and Europe
“We have in terms of the teams, we have more than a hundred team members across U.S., Europe”
Marcus Linder Nov 18, 2018 ▶ 7:26 1212 Chatbot company SmartAssistant: We'll pass $50m in next few quarters
Nov 22, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
PandaDoc's 170-person team is split across Belarus and the US
“We've got about 90 people in Belarus. And we've got about 80 people in the U.S. Actually, to be correct, like 97 are in Belarus the last time I checked. A little over 70.”
Mikita Mikado Nov 22, 2018 ▶ 17:28 1216 PandaDoc CEO: "We've passed $1m in monthly bookings"
Apr 11, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Plaza Ventures is the first dedicated tech secondary fund in Canada
“There's definitely, we identified about 40 groups in the U.S. That do this either as a core focus and or a sleeve on their platform, but we're first to market, believe it or not, in Canada.”
Matthew Liebowitz Apr 11, 2019 ▶ 7:14 1356 Early Employee Who Wants to Sell A Few Shares? Plaza Ventures New Model Is What You Need.
May 28, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
The US Direct Mail Industry Generates $45 Billion Annually
“The workflow and the sales process, the onboarding process really hasn't changed since the 19 nineties. And so we're really trying to apply a SAS business model. And a SAF software model to this industry that still is about forty-five billion dollars a year in…”
Dennis Kelly May 28, 2019 ▶ 7:14 1403 This Direct Mailing SaaS Company Went From $0 to $135k in MRR Using Hubspot Partner Ecosystem
Apr 22, 2020 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Latka: China will not surpass US GDP by 2030
“I don't see China actually threatening the U.S. When it comes to them surpassing our GDP by 2030.”
Nathan Latka Apr 22, 2020 ▶ 1:19:55 Preston Pysh on Bitcoin $200,000, QE at the top, UBI at bottom, $10t+ Fed Balance Sheet?
Apr 30, 2020
Assertion Partly supported
Booth: US and global gun sales are at all-time records
“The U.S. Gun sales are through at all time records in the U.S. And Canada and around the world.”
Jeff Booth Apr 30, 2020 ▶ 1:11:17 When Will Poor Revolt Against Rich? Is Unemployment Good? Currency Pegged To Bitcoin with Jeff Booth
Oct 28, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Grant: Appify has about 45 employees across Bangalore and the US
“We've got about 45 folks on the team. We have a big engineering team in Bangalore, and then we have a smaller go-to-market team in the U.S.”
Jen Grant Oct 28, 2020 ▶ 7:01 Appify Recruits Powerhouse CEO, Hits 45 Customers for No Code App Building Platform
Nov 18, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Almabase serves 240 institutions, with over 90% based in the US
“So today, in terms of paying customers, we have 240 institutions. A majority of them are in the U.S. About 90, 92% of them are in the U.S. Roughly a half and a half split between independent schools and higher education.”
Kalyan Varma Nov 18, 2020 ▶ 6:35 Almabase Hits $1.1m Revenue Helping Universities Manage Alumni Donations
Dec 23, 2020
Assertion Supported
Bury: About 60% of US and Canadian adults lack basic estate documents
“I feel like the sad truth is, and this is true in Canada as well as the U.S., people are woefully unprepared for their own passing, and about 60% of adults don't have just the simple legal documents”
Erin Bury Dec 23, 2020 ▶ 3:40 Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning
May 27, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Revastaff serves about 2,000 of the 2M U.S. realtors
“I mean, we're just serving about 2000 realtors, and there's about two million realtors in the U.S.”
OJ Lopez May 27, 2021 ▶ 10:34 $20k Upwork Side Gig to $200k ARR SaaS Project Editing Real Estate Photos
Aug 11, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Voozer charges under $100 monthly in Brazil and $200 internationally
“So in Brazil, it would be less than a hundred dollars, and in the U.S. And international marketing, the international market is 200 dollars for the software.”
Albert Heifaz Aug 11, 2021 ▶ 3:56 $15k in MRR From $50k Raised Helping you Turn Blogs into Audio Content
Aug 27, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Donati: TouchBistro raised around $8M after entering the US market
“He had me take a startup into the U S and because I brought a Canadian company into the U S and we were successfully able to raise like eight million, a Danish company found me and said, Hey, what company was that?”
Gino Donati Aug 27, 2021 ▶ 2:08 Former Top Sales Rep Will Help You Hire First SDR at Your SaaS Company for $2,500/mo
Aug 27, 2021 positive
Opinion
Donati: US expat sales teams in Argentina worked 100% pre-COVID
“Pre-COVID, a hundred percent, but they were expats, so it's, ah, they were living in Argentina, or I was hitting up a lot of college kids saying, don't go into a cubicle. Come live abroad for a year or two.”
Gino Donati Aug 27, 2021 ▶ 3:00 Former Top Sales Rep Will Help You Hire First SDR at Your SaaS Company for $2,500/mo
Oct 19, 2021
Assertion Partly supported
Veem is licensed in every U.S. state, a multi-year regulatory process
“We are a regulated company, meaning we're licensed in every single state in the U.S., and we also have licenses in other parts of the world. So it took us like two, three years just Like legal compliance licensing.”
Marwan Forzley Oct 19, 2021 ▶ 15:22 Will Veem's 300,000 SMB Customers Process Over $5b in 2021? 3 Products Driving Growth.
Aug 15, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Quilici: There are nearly 3,000 wholesale telecom carriers in the US
“It turns out most people don't know there's almost 3000 wholesale carriers in the U.S., and those carriers can provide things like hospital, you know, telephony, they can provide international telephony, they can provide call center telephony, they provide all…”
Alex Quilici Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 2:11 How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises
Apr 16, 2024 negative
Insight
Business failure carries a lasting stigma in Europe unlike the US
“Failure in the U.S. Is a different kind of beast. If you're taking off the football team as wide receiver and you have to go to junior varsity and try to come back to varsity, you're celebrated more if you make it back to varsity because you endure it, you fou…”
Rasmus Holst Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 6:45 This Danish CEO Hit $30m ARR using Unique 14 Hub Model Selling Software for Microsoft Ecosystem
Dec 24, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Jain: WhatsApp has over 100M US users
“A hundred million plus users in the U.S. On WhatsApp. That's probably about 30, 40% of the adult population.”
Rajesh Jain Dec 24, 2024 ▶ 16:08 Private, Bootstrapped, & Profitable: How Rajesh Jain Scaled to Over $100M As a Solo Founder
Dec 24, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Rajesh Jain: US E-Commerce Gets 20% to 40% Revenue from Email
“Because in the U.S., for e-commerce companies, 20 to 40% revenue is coming from email.”
Rajesh Jain Dec 24, 2024 ▶ 5:33 Private, Bootstrapped, & Profitable: How Rajesh Jain Scaled to Over $100M As a Solo Founder
Dec 24, 2024 positive
Opinion
Latka: India SaaS using WhatsApp outgrows US SaaS using Slack
“So, like, what I will tell you is you are seeing incredibly fast-growing India companies that are building WhatsApp groups for their SaaS businesses, growing much faster than their U.S. Counterparts, trying to drive everyone into a Slack channel.”
Nathan Latka Dec 24, 2024 ▶ 16:34 Private, Bootstrapped, & Profitable: How Rajesh Jain Scaled to Over $100M As a Solo Founder
Dec 31, 2024 positive
Opinion
London: International hires work harder and are more appreciative than US workers
“A lot of people that we've hired from, ah, different countries are harder working and more appreciative of the job than the people in the U.S.”
Steven London Dec 31, 2024 ▶ 17:49 Here's how I added $10m revenue over the last 18 months, HiFello CEO
Dec 3, 2025 neutral
Insight
Pearsall: US backlog is more valuable than expanding into Canada
“Conversion rates aren't entirely favorable for SaaS companies, and so when you have pent up demand, the most valuable dollars are coming from the U.S., and so, you know, it doesn't make sense to take on Canadian clients, and we have a backlog of U.S. Clients t…”
Jason Pearsall Dec 3, 2025 ▶ 6:49 From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook
Apr 8, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Buildern employs around 35 full-time staff across multiple countries
“So full-time we are around 35. They are not, everyone is in U.S., but across different countries.”
Mike Tigranian Apr 8, 2026 ▶ 8:59 How Buildern Reached $2M Revenue With 300 Customers | Hmayak Tigranyan
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