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Candice Faktor

Co-founder & CEO, Disco · 1 appearance on the record.

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Candice Faktor is the co-founder and CEO of Disco, a platform for live learning, employee upskilling, and community education. She previously served as Head of Business and Global GM at Wattpad and co-founded the tech festival Elevate.

14statements → 8claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 4.07/5average certainty → 1.29/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

3 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 7 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 4 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 Candice 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
Zapier-owned MakerPad uses Disco to power its entire learning community
“Really big now organizations are using us, like MakerPad, which is the largest no-code school. It's owned by Zapier. We are the OS for their entire learning community”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 4:32 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

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 Candice Faktor on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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

Insight
Social learning succeeds through peer accountability and support, says Faktor
“The science of learning is that you actually learn better with people because people hold you accountable. They give you support. You're able to reflect more with them.”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 2:43 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Insight
Established creators prefer fixed SaaS subscriptions over revenue share models
“What's really appealing to the knowledge creators and organizations that are making a business out of live learning is they don't want you to take a huge chunk of their revenue. They want to pay you a SaaS fee”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 9:26 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Insight
Disco's platform replaces complex integrations of Hopin, Slack, and curriculum tools
“It's actually quite complex for people to sort of piece together a hop in with a slack with a, you know, curriculum tool. And so we just make it super simple in one place.”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 20:41 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Opinion
Future workforce skills diverge sharply from institutional education, says Faktor
“The skills that people are going to need in the future are so different than what they're being taught in institutional ed”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 3:38 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Assertion Supported
Zapier-owned MakerPad uses Disco to power its entire learning community
“Really big now organizations are using us, like MakerPad, which is the largest no-code school. It's owned by Zapier. We are the OS for their entire learning community”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 4:32 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Assertion Supported
Dribbble uses Disco as the operating system for Dribbble University
“Dribbble, the world's, you know, one of the world's biggest product design communities, they're using Disco to be the OS for their entire Dribbble University”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 5:00 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Assertion Partly supported
Disco raised a $5M seed round with Shopify and Solana angels
“In our last round we raised five million US and we have incredible angels as well. Lots of interesting folks from Shopify Lambda School, Solana, Endeavor, very interesting people who are participating.”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 6:19 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Assertion Supported
Disco's $750k pre-seed was backed by Wattpad executives
“That was just a friends and family, 750 K... I have Ivan as an investor. Huge fan of the Wattpad team. Also like the head of product, Tarun Secdeva as an investor.”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 7:03 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Disco's seed round was 3x oversubscribed with $15M in investor interest
“We were three times oversubscribed for that round. We had, you know, fifteen million of interest.”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 7:43 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Disclosure
The majority of active creators on Disco generate ticket sales
“Some have no sales, but the majority do. The majority.”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 11:34 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Top Disco creators are on track to generate $1M+ in 2022
“We have some creators that are on track to do seven figures this year.”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 11:45 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Disclosure
Between 30% and 50% of Disco customers pay for SaaS subscriptions
“I would say it's about like in the range of between 30 to 50%.”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 14:12 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Disco is on track to surpass $1M in revenue in 2022
“We are absolutely on track.”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 15:06 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Disco co-founders Candice Faktor and Chris Sukornyk split equity 50/50
“No, a hundred percent. Fifty-fifty all the way.”
Candice Faktor Mar 18, 2022 ▶ 8:50 Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin? Mar 18, 2022 15m
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