Eric Harrell

CEO, Duett Software Group · 1 appearance on the record.

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Harrell served as CEO of game-based learning platform Kahoot! from 2016 to 2018, where he oversaw user growth past 50–70 million monthly active users and led initial SaaS monetization initiatives. He also spent over a decade as CFO and Chief Strategy Officer at Opera Software and currently serves as CEO of Duett Software Group.

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Harrell: Kahoot Has Raised $26.5M From Microsoft Ventures and Disney

“We've raised 26 and a half million dollars to date. And those investors include Microsoft Ventures. Disney's put in a lot of some money. We also have the two leading Nordic firms that have put money into the company.”

Eric Harrell Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 6:40 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning

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Harrell: 25% of Fortune 500 companies use Kahoot for employee training

“So, you know, basically, 25% of the 14 500 companies are using Kahoot to, in, in, in a classroom setting to train their employees.”

Eric Harrell Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 2:16 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning

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Harrell: Kahoot reached 50M users faster than Twitter

“We've gone from zero to fifty million users almost as fast as Facebook, faster than Twitter.”

Eric Harrell Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 8:02 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning

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Harrell: Kahoot has over 50M MAUs, including 40M in K-12

“You know, of the fifty million, more than fifty million monthly active users we have, around forty million of those are in, in K to 12 school environments, so teachers are using the platform to teach math and science and those types of subjects, but we also ha…”

Eric Harrell Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 1:56 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning

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Harrell: Kahoot has 500,000 separate corporate accounts

“We have basically we have as I said, 500,000 separate corporate accounts, which gives us a lot of confidence, because that's of course the challenge, as we all know, with ramping up a business, is where do you get the leads from.”

Eric Harrell Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 13:34 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning

Disclosure

Harrell: Kahoot soft-launched paid tier only to new incoming leads

“So the way we've done a soft launch, which is why I'm a little bit coy about numbers is we've only focused on new leads coming in. We haven't done anything with these 500,000 corporate accounts.”

Eric Harrell Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 14:54 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning

Assertion Supported

Harrell: Kahoot Has Raised $26.5M From Microsoft Ventures and Disney

Eric Harrell Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 6:40 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Harrell: Average Kahoot session duration is 10 minutes

“The average session time of a of a Kahoot is, is, is 10 minutes.”

Eric Harrell Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 9:32 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning

Assertion Supported

Harrell: Kahoot business pricing is $120 annually or $14.95 monthly per trainer

“If you sign up for a annual plan you pay 10 dollars a month per trainer. So for, you know, so a 120 dollars a year, and then if you can also sign up monthly, which is 1495 a month.”

Eric Harrell Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 12:16 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning

Prediction Held up

Harrell: Kahoot will definitely surpass 1,000 paid subscribers this year

“I'll I mean, we will definitely be in the thousands this year. I mean, it's, it was, so it'll be, you know, it'll be over a thousand for sure this year.”

Eric Harrell Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 17:48 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning	Feb 21, 2018	12m

Eric Harrell

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