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Andrew Gazdecki

Founder & CEO, Acquire.com · 1 appearance on the record.

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Andrew Gazdecki is the founder and CEO of Acquire.com, an online marketplace facilitating startup acquisitions. He is also the author of Getting Acquired and host of the Startup Acquisition Stories podcast.

13statements → 9claims → 1claims resolved → 3.69/5average certainty → 1.46/5average debate potential → 26said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 7 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

9 assertions · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 7 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Andrew argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
App builder competitor BuildFire started as a Bizness Apps partner
“Build fire for one used to be a partner of ours.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 13:04 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Andrew Gazdecki on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Andrew Gazdecki said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps claims over 500,000 paying end-customers globally
“Those are paying customers.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 1:18 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Assertion Supported
App builder competitor BuildFire started as a Bizness Apps partner
“Build fire for one used to be a partner of ours.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 13:04 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Competitor AppInstitute originally launched as a Bizness Apps reseller
“App Institute used to be a reseller.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 13:15 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Insight
Software resellers fail without dedicated sales training and enablement
“And if you sign up a partner and you're really hands off and you don't teach them how to sell the product, you don't provide them with materials that they need to sell the product. You aren't checking in with them to see if they have any issues. They're simply…”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 2:44 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps customers pay an average of $500 per month
“It would be in the range of probably 500 a month. I would say.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 3:54 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps has published 100,000 iOS and 300,000 Android apps
“We have close to a 100,000 in the iOS store. We have probably about 300,000 in the Android app store.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 5:43 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps operates with approximately 3,000 global reseller partners
“Right now we have around 3000 partners around the globe and then underneath them, they have their own customers.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 6:07 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps reached $65,000 MRR before relocating to the Bay Area
“Before we left then over to the Bay Area, I believe we were at, like 65,000 in monthly recurring revenue.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 8:35 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Disclosure
Bizness Apps bootstrapped to scale on just $110,000 in outside capital
“We've actually bootstrapped. We've only raised 110,000 and that was 2010.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 10:40 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Disclosure
Bizness Apps generated $5.8M in 2014 and $7.2M in 2015 revenue
“I believe it was 5.8 million. And then it was 7.2 in 2015.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 11:33 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps maintains an end-customer monthly churn rate below 2%
“If an agency creates an app, and then they have a customer cancel within our software, they can basically deactivate the app, and what we actually see on that level is a churn number below two percent.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 17:06 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bizness Apps spends less than $50,000 monthly on paid acquisition
“Less than.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 19:05 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
Disclosure
Half of the Bizness Apps customer base is international
“Half our business is international.”
Andrew Gazdecki Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 1:42 902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps

The other half of the tape: Andrew Gazdecki's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 26 times in 10 episodes on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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2021 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile A Jan 12, 2018 12m
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