Jack Parmer

GM, Connect, Nominal · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jack Parmer is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Plotly, the data visualization and analytics company behind open-source charting libraries and Dash. After departing Plotly, he founded Flojoy—an open-source industrial test automation company—and later joined Nominal to lead hardware-in-the-loop test applications.

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6 assertions · 1 insight · 7 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions 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

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Tesla's data science team uses Plotly for internal graphing

“So, like a good example is the data science team at Tesla uses us.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 2:04 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said14 Episodes1

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Tesla refuses cloud software for data science, requiring on-premise deployments

“Even someone like Tesla won't use a cloud product for their data science teams. They want something completely behind their firewall.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 2:47 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Insight

Plotly's most efficient GTM spend is documentation and content marketing

“For go to market, the most Efficient way that we found to spend that money for our product and industry was just making our content marketing and our documentation really, really, really good.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 7:37 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Assertion Supported

Tesla's data science team uses Plotly for internal graphing

“So, like a good example is the data science team at Tesla uses us.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 2:04 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Disclosure

Plotly's revenue is split evenly between cloud and on-premise

“Interestingly, it's about fifty-fifty.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 4:27 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Disclosure

Plotly raised a $4.5M seed round and $1M in debt

“We raised four and a half million seed and then took on a million in debt.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 6:11 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Plotly is currently cash flow positive

“Well, we're actually cashflow positive.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 7:04 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Disclosure

Plotly has crossed $2 million in overall annual revenue

“Yeah, we've broken two overall.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 10:20 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Plotly has grown its total revenue 1.8x year-over-year

“If you count all of our revenue It's been about 1.8 per year. So we've almost doubled every year. Right. You know, our first year we did basically nothing less than 300,000 dollars.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 10:29 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Disclosure

Plotly maintains a customer acquisition payback period under 60 days

“Definitely under net 60.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 13:17 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Disclosure

Plotly does not do any outbound sales

“So we don't do outbound sales.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 15:02 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Plotly's cloud customer churn is approximately 10% annually

“For, on the cloud side for paying customers, it's about It's a, I think it's about 10% now. Annually.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 15:41 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Disclosure

Plotly CEO Jack Parmer gets at least 10 hours of sleep

“I just, I like to sleep a lot. I get it at 10 hours at least.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 17:05 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Plotly employs 20 full-time staff and 10 open-source contractors

“So we're about 20 full time and then we sort of have a team of about another 10 contractors that mostly work on the open source libraries.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 4:52 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Disclosure

Plotly has spent only $20,000 total experimenting with paid ads

“We probably spent 20 grand total on paid ads, trying different things.”

Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 8:15 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers	May 9, 2018	8m

Jack Parmer

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