Mada Seghete

1 appearance on the record.

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8statements → 5claims → 2claims resolved → 3.62/5average certainty → 1.38/5average debate potential →

1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 4 assertions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 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 Mada 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

Branch has raised over $200 million in total venture funding

“Over 200.”

Mada Seghete Sep 4, 2019 ▶ 5:27 1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

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What they said8 Episodes1

Everything Mada Seghete said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Selling software to developers is hard because they prefer building internally

“The people that have started use us for free, and if you think are usually the developers and it's very hard to [754] Mada Seghete: To convert a developer into a paid product because they think they can build it themselves.”

Mada Seghete Sep 4, 2019 ▶ 12:29 1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Branch maintains less than 5% annual gross churn

“Five percent. [673] Nathan Latka: Less than five percent. [674] Nathan Latka: Okay, and that's gross churn. [675] Mada Seghete: Yes. [676] Mada Seghete: We do have very, very little churn. [678] Mada Seghete: Most of our churn is actually, I think more than ha…”

Mada Seghete Sep 4, 2019 ▶ 11:12 1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Seghete expects 70% of future growth to come from new customers

“I think it's probably going to be fifty-fifty or probably more like thirty-seventy. [847] Mada Seghete: 30 coming from expansion, 70 from new customers.”

Mada Seghete Sep 4, 2019 ▶ 14:03 1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Disclosure

Branch is completely free for apps under 10,000 monthly active users

“If you have under 10,000 monthly active users, it's actually, everything is free, but above that, we have a few tiers, and then we have, like, an enterprise tier for real customers.”

Mada Seghete Sep 4, 2019 ▶ 3:43 1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Assertion Supported

Branch has raised over $200 million in total venture funding

“Over 200.”

Mada Seghete Sep 4, 2019 ▶ 5:27 1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Assertion Partly supported

Branch powers 60% to 70% of the top 200 mobile apps

“We are in over 50,000 apps, and you know, I think 60 or 70% of the top 200 apps have branch, and that there's a lot of infrastructure.”

Mada Seghete Sep 4, 2019 ▶ 5:57 1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Disclosure

Branch targets 18 months of runway for every funding round

“Yeah, I mean, I think every, every fundraiser we've done, we've always thought between, usually the 18 months is usually the runway to go for. That's usually what we've done.”

Mada Seghete Sep 4, 2019 ▶ 16:31 1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Engineers account for more than half of Branch's 300 employees

“Engineering is probably more than half the company.”

Mada Seghete Sep 4, 2019 ▶ 15:30 1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

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