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Matt Smith

Founder & CIO, Chronometer Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Matthew Smith is the founder and Chief Investment Officer at Chronometer Partners, where he leads modeling of U.S. natural gas basins, pipelines, LNG infrastructure, and power generation. He has analyzed how rising LNG export capacity and AI power demand could significantly deplete domestic gas storage.

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1 prediction · 9 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 9 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.

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What the tape says about how Matt argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Canadian government subsidies cover 80% of Latergram's tech salaries
“80% of our salaries for tech is covered by the government.”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 12:01 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
Prediction Not publicly verifiable
Smith predicts Thinkific will exceed $100k MRR by the end of 2016
“I think they're well on their way to going well over, I don't know, probably over a hundred K MRR.”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 7:01 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
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Smith personally emailed nearly 20,000 pre-launch Latergram sign-ups
“I think I personally emailed all, almost all 20,000 of people those signups, and spent, you know, most of my evenings writing these emails, ah, and engaging with people, and I think when people see, you know, a founder doing that, they say, and they like the p…”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 9:48 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
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Latergram crosses $50,000 in monthly recurring revenue in early 2016
“Just over a 50 K. Okay.”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 11:01 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Latergram approaches 500,000 registered users
“We're closing in on half a million, so just shy of that.”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 12:37 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
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Latergram counts roughly 40,000 monthly active users
“We're looking at about 40,000 monthly active right now.”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 12:48 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Latergram has 3,000 to 4,000 paying customers
“I think we're in like the three to 4000 range.”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 13:15 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
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Latergram averages approximately 5% monthly churn
“Our churn has been a bit variable recently. There's been a lot of a lot of competitors coming to the space, but on average we're looking at about five percent.”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 13:27 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
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Latergram operates without any paid customer acquisition
“No, we don't do any paid acquisition at this point.”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 14:18 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
Disclosure
Latergram raised a $1.2 million seed round
“It was 1.2.”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 15:59 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rocketship.vc used a growth algorithm to find and cold-email Latergram
“Cold emailed us, wanted to put money in, said they liked what they're doing. Apparently, so they say there's some of the guys that really early investors in Facebook so back when Facebook was like, you know, eight employees or something like that and they deve…”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 16:18 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
Disclosure
Resolute, Aspect Ventures, and Hiten Shah invested in Latergram's seed
“We did raise more money later on and sort of close out the seed round. Resolute founders, Heaton Shaw, invested some money and then also Aspect Ventures, so they're you know, Teresa Gao, and Jennifer Swanstead, and Lauren and Claudney put some money in as well…”
Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 19:07 How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith

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Appearances (1)

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How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smi Mar 6, 2016 13m
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