Byron Darlison

Certified Coach, Metronomics · 1 appearance on the record.

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Byron Darlison founded Rise Vision in 1992, bootstrapping the digital signage software company to multi-million-dollar ARR without outside equity before handing daily operations to his COO. Today, he works as a Metronomics business coach, helping founders install business operating systems and build self-sustaining leadership teams.

10statements → 9claims → 2claims resolved → 3.8/5average certainty → 1.2/5average debate potential →

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

9 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 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 Byron 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
Darlison: Financial trading floors are shutting down and decentralizing
“So the financial trading floors are starting to shut down and move to their decentralizing and there's less, less concentration of them.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 10:08 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Darlison: Rise Vision launched the first digital signage SaaS product
“And we were in the, our industry, we were the first to offer a SaaS product in 2000 10 or earlier, I believe.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 4:47 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

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

Assertion Contradicted
Darlison: Rise Vision launched the first digital signage SaaS product
“And we were in the, our industry, we were the first to offer a SaaS product in 2000 10 or earlier, I believe.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 4:47 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped
Assertion Supported
Darlison: Financial trading floors are shutting down and decentralizing
“So the financial trading floors are starting to shut down and move to their decentralizing and there's less, less concentration of them.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 10:08 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darlison: SaaS accounts for about 65% of Rise Vision's gross revenue
“It was a one-time service, but over the last about five years, we've been really focused on our SaaS offering, and now it's about 65% of our gross revenue.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 4:02 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darlison: Rise Vision has roughly 6,000 paying customers
“So we've got just a paying customer, about 6000 customers.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 6:56 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rise Vision generates $350,000 in monthly revenue
“Yeah, I think it's closer to three 50.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 7:35 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darlison: Rise Vision moving annual average growth is around 25%
“We track our moving annual average growth, so it's on a, on that basis, it's 25%, 24 point something.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 7:45 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped
Disclosure
Darlison: Rise Vision is bootstrapped without venture capital
“I don't know, we're just bootstrapped.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 8:05 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darlison: Rise Vision experiences 1.33% monthly logo churn and 4% gross churn
“So our gross churn or, well, our logo churn is about 1.33% monthly and gross though is about four, four and a half percent monthly.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 9:27 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darlison: Rise Vision maintains a 3.18 LTV to CAC ratio
“Our ratio is 3.18 lifetime value to customer acquisition cost.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 10:30 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darlison: Rise Vision customer lifetime value is around $1,900
“About 1900 dollars.”
Byron Darlison Aug 19, 2019 ▶ 11:05 1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1486 Digital Signage Management Passes $4.2M in ARR, Bootstrapped Aug 19, 2019 6m
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