Seth Shoultes

Founder, Garage Door Science · 1 appearance on the record.

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Seth Shoultes co-founded Event Espresso and Event Smart, a WordPress event ticketing and registration platform. After exiting the business in 2021, he led product initiatives for WordPress membership software and developed AI-driven applications.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 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.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
WordPress had only 5,000 total plugins in 2009, says Seth Shoultes
“At the time there was only a 5000 plugins, you know, total in the entire WordPress market space.”
Seth Shoultes Jul 14, 2019 ▶ 8:39 1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Event Espresso powers over $100M in monthly WordPress ticket sales
“We're also powering over a hundred million ticket sales per month from our Venespresso platform for WordPress.”
Seth Shoultes Jul 14, 2019 ▶ 3:59 1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Event Espresso and Event Smart generate $80,000 monthly revenue
“Between the two platforms, we're bringing in about 80,000 a month.”
Seth Shoultes Jul 14, 2019 ▶ 4:41 1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Event Espresso has roughly 20,000 paying customers
“We have about Around, I think, 20,000 paying customers.”
Seth Shoultes Jul 14, 2019 ▶ 5:01 1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project
Assertion Supported
WordPress had only 5,000 total plugins in 2009, says Seth Shoultes
“At the time there was only a 5000 plugins, you know, total in the entire WordPress market space.”
Seth Shoultes Jul 14, 2019 ▶ 8:39 1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project
Disclosure
Event Espresso reached $20,000 monthly revenue when Shoultes quit his job
“The company was profitable enough that I could just quit. I could quit my job and pay myself and pay myself. How much was it at that? How much was it doing a month? I think we were doing like 20,000 a month.”
Seth Shoultes Jul 14, 2019 ▶ 11:20 1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project
Disclosure
Event Espresso reached scale entirely bootstrapped without outside capital
“Yeah, we're completely bootstrapped.”
Seth Shoultes Jul 14, 2019 ▶ 13:03 1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project Jul 14, 2019 8m
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