Osman Rashid

Founder & CEO, Convo Corp · 1 appearance on the record.

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Osman Rashid is a serial entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and founding CEO of Chegg, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Kno. He currently serves as founder and CEO of workplace collaboration SaaS provider Convo Corp.

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1 prediction · 14 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 15 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 14 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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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Convo Has Raised Roughly $9 Million in Total Capital
“So we're roughly at nine million dollars.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 9:13 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Convo's Annual Gross Revenue Churn Is Below 5%
“It's below five percent actually.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 12:21 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
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Convo Averages 250% Cohort Expansion Per Customer Over 12 Months
“Yeah, look, I mean, the cohorts in which you come in from a customer, say a customer that started in 2017, right? We, if we take a look at that as a cohort, we see almost 250% growth on average within, within a customer.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 13:41 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
Insight
A 24-Month CAC Payback Is Acceptable With Five-Year Enterprise Retention
“So you're willing to, you know, pay twice as much as what the value would be in the first year. Cause if a customer is staying for five years, you're doing pretty well.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 15:09 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Convo Expects 5x Growth in Q1 2019 Over Full-Year 2018
“We're at the stage where we can predict five X growth just in the first quarter over all of 2018.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 15:47 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
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97% of Convo Usage Is Document Collaboration, Not Messaging
“Our use case really is three percent of us as users for messaging, so we frankly plan to integrate with products like Slack. 97% of our use case is people working on a document or a conversation in large groups”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 2:17 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
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80% of Large Retailer Workforces Like H&M Lack Corporate Email
“Because in a large entity, such as H&M, 80% of your workforce doesn't have email.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 4:01 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
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Over 90% of Convo Customers With 20+ Users Never Churn
“So what we find is 90 plus of our customers, 90% plus of our customers who have gone to more than 20 users, they don't churn.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 11:19 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
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Convo Operates With Zero Full-Time Marketing Staff
“And frankly, we don't really even have, you know anyone in full-time marketing, we have so much, we have customers coming in.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 9:35 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
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Convo Averages Roughly $7 Per User Per Month
“So our I would say we average around seven dollars per user per month is what a customer pays us.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 3:06 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Convo's Largest Customer H&M Deploys Platform to 15,000 Employees
“So our largest customer is H&M, which has 15,000 employees on the platform.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 3:18 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
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CNBC Runs All Breaking News Operations Through Convo's Collaboration Tool
“One of our customers is CNBC and all breaking news that happens on CNBC goes through Convo because that's the breaking news group uses Convo as the collaboration tool as well”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 6:15 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
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Convo Currently Has Over 100,000 Paid User Seats
“What I can tell you, it's, you know, it's in the six figures.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 7:21 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
Assertion Supported
Convo Has Raised Roughly $9 Million in Total Capital
“So we're roughly at nine million dollars.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 9:13 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Convo Is Currently Approaching Profitability
“That's accurate, but we are near profitability.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 10:27 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
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Convo Employs Roughly 65 People Globally
“We are roughly 65 people across the globe.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 5:19 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Convo Has Roughly 250 Total Customers
“So we have roughly 250 customers.”
Osman Rashid Dec 6, 2019 ▶ 6:11 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate Dec 6, 2019 9m
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