Charles Thiede

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

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Charles Thiede co-founded and leads Zapnito, a SaaS platform providing expert-led knowledge networks for enterprise brands. Before launching Zapnito, he held senior leadership roles including Chief Product Officer at Nature Publishing Group and Chief Technology Officer at Informa Business Intelligence.

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Zapnito counts JP Morgan and NASA among its clients
“So anything from JP Morgan to NASA those are kind of some of the organizations that we work with.”
Charles Thiede Mar 2, 2017 ▶ 2:07 EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede

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Assertion Supported
Zapnito counts JP Morgan and NASA among its clients
“So anything from JP Morgan to NASA those are kind of some of the organizations that we work with.”
Charles Thiede Mar 2, 2017 ▶ 2:07 EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede
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Thiede: JP Morgan uses Zapnito for its UK Edge network
“So they have created a thought leadership network using that, you know, called the UK edge, which is all about the UK economy to drive leads and thought leadership in the fund industry.”
Charles Thiede Mar 2, 2017 ▶ 3:42 EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede
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Zapnito's average ACV is £60,000
“Average is about 60,000 pounds per year.”
Charles Thiede Mar 2, 2017 ▶ 4:42 EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede
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Zapnito has 12 paying enterprise customers
“It depends on how you consider customers, but yeah, paying customers is 12 customers.”
Charles Thiede Mar 2, 2017 ▶ 7:26 EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede
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Zapnito is approaching £500,000 in ARR
“We're about we're close to about 500,000 pounds annual reoccurring revenue.”
Charles Thiede Mar 2, 2017 ▶ 8:11 EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede
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Zapnito claims a 100% customer renewal rate
“No, we've got a hundred percent renewal rates.”
Charles Thiede Mar 2, 2017 ▶ 10:53 EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede
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Thiede: Zapnito operates with net negative revenue churn
“We have a net negative churn. So our clients grow with us.”
Charles Thiede Mar 2, 2017 ▶ 10:57 EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede
Assertion Supported
Thiede: Zapnito grew Springer Nature deployment from 3 to ~15 networks
“Springer Nature, for example, which is a big publisher, second largest STM publisher. You know, we started out with three knowledge networks with them, and then we've scaled to close to 15.”
Charles Thiede Mar 2, 2017 ▶ 11:40 EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede
Disclosure
Zapnito has raised £650,000 to date
“We've raised about six, 650,000 pounds.”
Charles Thiede Mar 2, 2017 ▶ 13:36 EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede
Disclosure
Zapnito has no dedicated salespeople other than the CEO
“And inside sales people, we don't have any sales people besides myself. So we are all in sales.”
Charles Thiede Mar 2, 2017 ▶ 9:02 EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raise Mar 2, 2017 8m
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