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Richard Rabins

CEO and Co-Founder, Alpha Software Corporation · 1 appearance on the record.

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Richard Rabins co-founded Alpha Software, leading the company behind database and low-code/no-code application development platforms including Alpha Four, Alpha Anywhere, and Alpha TransForm. He previously served as CEO of publicly traded SoftQuad International and was co-founder, president, and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council.

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7 assertions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, 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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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rabins: Alpha Software operates at a $5M to $10M annual run rate
“It's somewhere in the five to ten million dollar range.”
Richard Rabins Jan 11, 2019 ▶ 9:17 1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company
Insight
Rabins: Mobile enterprise apps are almost always data capture and dispatch
“What we found is that when it comes to mobile the kind of app that people want to build is Almost always some form of data capture and dispatch.”
Richard Rabins Jan 11, 2019 ▶ 13:12 1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company
Assertion Partly supported
Rabins: 60% of enterprise workers worldwide do not work at desks
“In particular, if you think about enterprises or corporations, 60% of workers worldwide work standing up. You know, not at desks.”
Richard Rabins Jan 11, 2019 ▶ 2:21 1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rabins: Alpha Software serves approximately 3,000 customers
“We have about 3000 customers using alpha.”
Richard Rabins Jan 11, 2019 ▶ 8:34 1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rabins: Alpha Software had minimal revenue upon spinout as an asset purchase
“No, very little. It was mainly an asset purchase. Cause in those days, software was mainly sold as perpetual licenses versus subscription.”
Richard Rabins Jan 11, 2019 ▶ 9:26 1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rabins: Alpha Software grew revenue approximately 70% year-over-year
“We probably were up by about 70% approximately.”
Richard Rabins Jan 11, 2019 ▶ 11:14 1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rabins: Alpha Software has 85% to 90% annual gross dollar retention
“Probably in the order of 85, 90%.”
Richard Rabins Jan 11, 2019 ▶ 11:57 1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company
Disclosure
Rabins: Alpha Software has raised approximately $10 million in funding
“I mean, we've raised, you know, around about ten million dollars.”
Richard Rabins Jan 11, 2019 ▶ 15:49 1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Rabins: Original Alpha Software hit $25M revenue and 150 employees
“We were roughly about twenty-five million. We had about a 150 people. We sold it to a public company and then I ended up actually becoming CEO of the company that we sold it to.”
Richard Rabins Jan 11, 2019 ▶ 3:56 1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company
Disclosure
Rabins: Alpha Software has approximately 50 employees
“There's about 50 people in the company.”
Richard Rabins Jan 11, 2019 ▶ 16:11 1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company Jan 11, 2019 10m
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