Lev Yakupov

CMO, TrueConf · 1 appearance on the record.

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Lev Yakupov oversees international marketing, product positioning, and global partner events for TrueConf, an enterprise video conferencing and unified communications software vendor. He frequently represents the company at technology seminars and industry expos, delivering workshops on secure collaboration platforms.

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8 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 7 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 Lev argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
TrueConf charges roughly 5% annually for software updates
“So let's think about five percent Of the price of the initial license, we're required to pay to get the updates for the new version. So annually, it's probably around five percent”
Lev Yakupov Sep 13, 2019 ▶ 3:38 1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
TrueConf generates between $20 million and $100 million in annual revenue
“Yeah, it's somewhere between from 20 to one, A hundred millions of dollars per year.”
Lev Yakupov Sep 13, 2019 ▶ 2:10 1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TrueConf lifetime software licenses cost an average of $5,000
“So the average price for our product, average, is approximately 5000 5000 USD. So . For life.”
Lev Yakupov Sep 13, 2019 ▶ 3:52 1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TrueConf sold its product more than 5,000 times in five years
“We sold our product more than 5000 times during the last five years.”
Lev Yakupov Sep 13, 2019 ▶ 5:03 1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TrueConf converts approximately 8% of free users to paid licenses
“So we usually have the conversion rate from the free version to the paid version approximately eight percent.”
Lev Yakupov Sep 13, 2019 ▶ 5:09 1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TrueConf adds 1,500 to 2,000 corporate freemium users monthly
“So the idea is that because we have a free product, which is very popular we usually have approximately one and a half thousand to 2000 new companies who begin to use the free version of our conferencing server.”
Lev Yakupov Sep 13, 2019 ▶ 11:55 1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees
Disclosure
TrueConf monetizes freemium software leads by upselling third-party hardware
“And we upsell to that constant lead flow, not just our full version license. We upsell different PTZ cameras, speaker phones, microphone arrays, AV services to set up conferencing rooms, to provide some audio video peripherals. So we upsell hardware. We also d…”
Lev Yakupov Sep 13, 2019 ▶ 12:28 1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TrueConf has always been profitable and never raised outside capital
“So we were always profitable. So we never raised any capital.”
Lev Yakupov Sep 13, 2019 ▶ 14:31 1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees
Assertion Contradicted
TrueConf charges roughly 5% annually for software updates
“So let's think about five percent Of the price of the initial license, we're required to pay to get the updates for the new version. So annually, it's probably around five percent”
Lev Yakupov Sep 13, 2019 ▶ 3:38 1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TrueConf scaled to 170 employees across two main offices
“So we started with 15 people when we decided to do the product and now we have 170 people and two big offices.”
Lev Yakupov Sep 13, 2019 ▶ 13:57 1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employees

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1511 Moscow Based Video Conference Software Hits $5m in Revenue, Bootstrapped, 170 employe Sep 13, 2019 9m
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