Emily Cushman

1 appearance on the record.

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1 prediction · 5 assertions · 1 disclosure · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 5 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 Emily 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
Cushman: Kira Talent raised over $8 million across multiple funding rounds
“We did an angel round of 300,000. We did a seed round of just over two million. And then we actually had a leadership change. So our investors brought in a CEO to come in and run the company for a couple of years. And in that time when we had a different CEO h…”
Emily Cushman Feb 2, 2019 ▶ 8:01 1288 $6m in ARR and Net Negative 20% Revenue Churn, How?!

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kira Talent reports net negative 20% revenue churn
“We have -20% churn.”
Emily Cushman Feb 2, 2019 ▶ 12:23 1288 $6m in ARR and Net Negative 20% Revenue Churn, How?!
What-if
Cushman: Kira Talent should have bootstrapped instead of raising venture capital
“Oh, never to raise VC money. I would have bootstrapped this from the start.”
Emily Cushman Feb 2, 2019 ▶ 17:06 1288 $6m in ARR and Net Negative 20% Revenue Churn, How?!
Disclosure
Cushman: Kira Talent's Average ACV Is $20,000 for 1,000 Applicants
“So pretty average is we'll get a program. Maybe it's an MBA program or a master's of finance about a thousand applicants and they'll pay about 20 grand and that's an annual contract value.”
Emily Cushman Feb 2, 2019 ▶ 3:04 1288 $6m in ARR and Net Negative 20% Revenue Churn, How?!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cushman: Kira Talent has scaled to 300 university campuses
“300.”
Emily Cushman Feb 2, 2019 ▶ 3:58 1288 $6m in ARR and Net Negative 20% Revenue Churn, How?!
Assertion Supported
Cushman: Kira Talent raised over $8 million across multiple funding rounds
“We did an angel round of 300,000. We did a seed round of just over two million. And then we actually had a leadership change. So our investors brought in a CEO to come in and run the company for a couple of years. And in that time when we had a different CEO h…”
Emily Cushman Feb 2, 2019 ▶ 8:01 1288 $6m in ARR and Net Negative 20% Revenue Churn, How?!
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cushman: Kira Talent is breakeven and will turn profitable within months
“So now we're operating breakeven. We'll turn to profitability in the next couple months, and it's a whole different way of operating.”
Emily Cushman Feb 2, 2019 ▶ 8:34 1288 $6m in ARR and Net Negative 20% Revenue Churn, How?!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kira Talent grows at approximately 75% year-over-year
“So, I mean, we grow, like, just to kind of make it on a broader sense, like, we probably grow 75% year-over-year now, and that's mainly a factor of the space that we're in”
Emily Cushman Feb 2, 2019 ▶ 11:20 1288 $6m in ARR and Net Negative 20% Revenue Churn, How?!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kira Talent maintains a 3:1 LTV to CAC ratio
“We have a three to one LTV to CAC.”
Emily Cushman Feb 2, 2019 ▶ 13:16 1288 $6m in ARR and Net Negative 20% Revenue Churn, How?!

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1288 $6m in ARR and Net Negative 20% Revenue Churn, How?! Feb 2, 2019 9m
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