Zinc

“The LTV for these customers is probably in the high hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. And every once in a while we can, you know, hit a jackpot with a guy who's paying 10 or 20 K a month.”

“So for a while you're actually just buying stuff from eBay from almost every seller. And we would, you know, our office was basically filled with junk. We threw a couple office parties where we just gave away lots of stuff and it would be like the cheapest thi…”

“We've maintained profitability for the past three years, and we've pretty much doubled every year”

“My co-founder was actually one of the biggest arbitrage sellers when he was in high school and that's kind of where part of the origins of zinc came from.”

“We take about 20 to 40% of the profit that the person earns.”

“In terms of the market, we probably have less than 15% of it in terms of Amazon to eBay.”

“There's a lot of niche opportunities that aren't super, you know, they're not million dollar opportunities each, but they may, they might make somebody a hundred K, 200 K a year. And so not an R incentive to kind of seek all these out.”

“That being said, like last year, I think in total sales driven, we, it was like two hundred sixty million or so.”

“We took one 20 back then, but yeah, we did that, and then we raised a small pre-seed round after that, so the total fundraise was under 400 K”

“Yeah, we have about 70 enterprise customers today.”

“Anywhere from 10,000 dollars a year annually to close to seven figures per year annually.”

“250 K at this stage of a company of a cost is a really high cost. So I don't think that that, I mean, I can just tell you right out of the gate, that's probably not necessary to go land some of these big deals. We haven't had to do that.”

“Nobody's looking for another messaging or communication app to put on their phone from a user perspective, right? Like even, okay, but this one's work-based. Who cares? You know, I just want to text my buddy. I'm not incented to go put a new app on my phone ju…”

“And this is not a defined market, right? This is not something that's on PG&E's list to buy, right? And so, so they're not searching. They're not typing it into their Google browser. Like, we're still in heavy outbound Market awareness mode.”

“We shut off freemium probably six months after we launched as zinc and basically said, Hey, you can do a free trial.”

“10 to 20, depending on what they want, per user, per month.”

“Thousands of technicians live at Dish Network in two weeks.”

“We have about 30 people.”

“Between 10 and a hundred.”

“Generally a communication platform is used in generally the same way, right? Like any given user is going to be sending texts, receiving texts, being added to groups You know, being on a conference call, it's very to use. It's easy to implement. There's not a …”

“Yes, we have.”

“17%.”

“Between a hundred and a 150.”

“We've raised sixteen million to date.”