Raj Bhaskar

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

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Bhaskar founded and led VisualHOMES, an accounting platform he bootstrapped and sold to Yardi Systems in 2010. He subsequently co-founded Hurdlr, now rebranded as Tight, an embedded accounting and tax infrastructure platform.

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6 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 5 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 Raj 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
Hurdlr built a real-time tax engine for all 50 states and DC
“And so we built, we actually built a real time income tax calculation engine for all 50 states in DC.”
Raj Bhaskar Aug 14, 2016 ▶ 3:54 EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users

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Everything Raj Bhaskar 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
Bhaskar: Visual Homes sold to Yardi Systems for just under $50M
“Ah, less, a little less than that.”
Raj Bhaskar Aug 14, 2016 ▶ 2:31 EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users
Assertion Supported
Hurdlr built a real-time tax engine for all 50 states and DC
“And so we built, we actually built a real time income tax calculation engine for all 50 states in DC.”
Raj Bhaskar Aug 14, 2016 ▶ 3:54 EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users
Disclosure
Bhaskar: Hurdlr is pre-revenue and launching mobile subscriptions in the fall
“So eventually so in the fall, we're going to turn revenue on. We're actually pre revenue right now. And we've been testing out models and we're turning that on in the fall and it'll be it's basically a mobile SAS business, right? So it'll be monthly, monthly o…”
Raj Bhaskar Aug 14, 2016 ▶ 6:32 EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users
Disclosure
Bhaskar: Hurdlr is strictly mobile-only with no desktop version available
“We're actually mobile only. It's not even mobile first. So we don't have a desktop product that we've made available.”
Raj Bhaskar Aug 14, 2016 ▶ 7:42 EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users
Disclosure
Bhaskar: Founders invested over $1.5M cash into Hurdlr pre-revenue
“All in cash wise has been quite a bit. It's a little over one and a half million plus a few of us don't take any compensation. For several years.”
Raj Bhaskar Aug 14, 2016 ▶ 9:16 EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bhaskar: 60% to 70% of Hurdlr users are monthly active
“Very high percentage. I think it's like. 60 to 70%.”
Raj Bhaskar Aug 14, 2016 ▶ 11:40 EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users
Disclosure
Hurdlr only prompts upgrades after users hit verified dollar savings thresholds
“So what we're looking at is tying into, so our system tracks your savings through deductions, right? So we want to hit a certain mark that you save X amount of dollars. And once you hit that, then we'll ask you if you feel like you got value to upgrade.”
Raj Bhaskar Aug 14, 2016 ▶ 13:09 EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bhaskar: Hurdlr survey showed users will pay $20 to save $200 monthly
“We've pulled a lot of our active users and they don't seem to have any problem paying 20 if we were to save them 200 a month.”
Raj Bhaskar Aug 14, 2016 ▶ 13:49 EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bhaskar: Hurdlr employs 16 full-time team members as of July 2016
“16 full time.”
Raj Bhaskar Aug 14, 2016 ▶ 9:54 EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bhaskar: Hurdlr has signed up tens of thousands of total users
“Tens of thousands.”
Raj Bhaskar Aug 14, 2016 ▶ 11:34 EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users

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EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users Aug 14, 2016 8m
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