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Brian Pontarelli

1 appearance on the record.

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1 prediction · 3 assertions · 1 opinion · 9 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 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.

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Assertion Contradicted
German Finance Laws Prevent Pure SaaS Identity Solutions Due to Data Residency
“Because you might be in Germany and German finance laws require that customer data is housed in Germany. So a pure SaaS play just, it won't work.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 4:47 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space

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Opinion
Ping Identity Deployments Require Stitching Four or Five Different Products Together
“Ping you can run on premises, but it's also pretty heavy. It's in order to get like all the components that they needed, they were going to have to buy like four or five different individual products, stitch them together. And that's a huge endeavor”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 6:37 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Assertion Contradicted
German Finance Laws Prevent Pure SaaS Identity Solutions Due to Data Residency
“Because you might be in Germany and German finance laws require that customer data is housed in Germany. So a pure SaaS play just, it won't work.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 4:47 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pontarelli: FusionAuth should overtake CleanSpeak revenue next year
“And it, and that's the thing is like, I think with the growth that we have, with how many inbound we have right now and our pipeline, we should be able to overtake CleanSpeak next year.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 13:09 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Disclosure
Pontarelli: FusionAuth Is Free Unless Customers Pay for Hosting, Support, or Services
“It's not open source, but it is just free for developers to use. The only thing you pay for is if you want us to do hosting or do any professional services or you need any type of support.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 3:03 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pontarelli: FusionAuth Revenue Is Split Equally Across Hosting, Support, and Services
“They're about equal right now.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 3:27 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pontarelli: Average FusionAuth Customer Pays Between $6,000 and $10,000 Annually
“I would say somewhere between six and 10,000 dollars for a year. Maybe something like that.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 3:56 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Disclosure
Pontarelli: FusionAuth has reached about 200,000 total downloads
“We were at, I think we're at about 200,000 total downloads.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 7:24 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Disclosure
Pontarelli: FusionAuth has 1,200 to 1,500 active running production instances
“The 1200 number or 1500 is total active running instances in our production environment.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 7:50 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Disclosure
Pontarelli: FusionAuth has approximately 50 paying customers
“I think we probably have about 50.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 8:30 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Disclosure
Pontarelli: FusionAuth's annual revenue churn is well under 10%
“Oh gosh, it's probably way less than 10%, right?”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 9:49 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Disclosure
Sister Company CleanSpeak Subsidized FusionAuth's Growth With a $600k Investment
“I would say we put about 600,000 total.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 11:29 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Disclosure
Pontarelli: FusionAuth burns between $30k and $50k per month
“Oh, probably not that much. Probably like somewhere between 30 and 50.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 12:52 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Disclosure
Pontarelli: FusionAuth adds about 300 active running instances monthly
“That's about two to three percent. So about 300 new active running instances every month.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 13:30 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
Disclosure
Pontarelli: FusionAuth sees about 10,000 downloads per month
“I think we get about 10,000 downloads a month.”
Brian Pontarelli Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 13:22 FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space Jul 7, 2020 8m
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