Mike Donnelly

CEO & Co-Founder, Seventh Sense · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mike Donnelly is the CEO and co-founder of Seventh Sense, an AI-driven platform optimizing email delivery times and frequency based on recipient engagement patterns. He previously worked in enterprise sales at Nimble Storage and Isilon Systems, and earlier served as a software engineer at Celera Genomics.

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Donnelly: Seventh Sense delivers 18% to 24% average click rate increases
“And then where the system has the biggest impact is click rates and conversions where we on average see anywhere from an 18 to 24% average increase in click rates.”
Mike Donnelly Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 14:14 1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap"
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Donnelly: Optimal send times reduce website bounce rates by 30% to 40%
“We've actually seen bounce rage drop. In an order of 30 to 40%, because again, they're willing to spend more time on your website because you've connected with them at a, you know, at a more optimal time.”
Mike Donnelly Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 14:43 1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap"
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60% of churned Seventh Sense users resubscribe at new jobs
“And what's interesting is we have seen probably 60% of our churn has actually signed back up with us when they go to a different company.”
Mike Donnelly Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 17:16 1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap"
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Donnelly: Seventh Sense would reject a $1M acquisition offer
“Absolutely not.”
Mike Donnelly Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 18:27 1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap"
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Seventh Sense generates $30K MRR across 136 customers
“Our poos are around 220 bucks a month. We've got 136 customers today. So around 30 K and annual recurring or sorry, monthly recurring revenue.”
Mike Donnelly Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 3:38 1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap"
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Seventh Sense grew MRR from $10K to $30K in 13 months
“13 months ago, we were around 10 K in MR.”
Mike Donnelly Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 4:35 1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap"
Disclosure
Donnelly: Seventh Sense pricing ranges from $100 to $3,000 monthly
“Our smallest subscription starts at a hundred a month. And then our largest today is three grand a month. And then, so if you've got a list of a 100,000 people, that's 600 dollars a month.”
Mike Donnelly Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 15:20 1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap"
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Donnelly: Seventh Sense pays nothing to HubSpot, Marketo, or Google
“We don't give anything to HubSpot or Marketo or Google.”
Mike Donnelly Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 3:01 1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap"
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Donnelly: Seventh Sense customer contact lists range from 2,000 to 10M emails
“I think our smallest customer probably has 2000 email addresses. Our largest has around ten million email addresses.”
Mike Donnelly Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 7:04 1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap"
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Donnelly: Seventh Sense had not seen customer churn in five months
“So churn we, I think the last customer we had churn was maybe five months ago.”
Mike Donnelly Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 16:42 1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap"

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1116 CEO: "We're definitely too cheap" Aug 14, 2018 9m
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