Tom Coburn

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

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Coburn co-founded Jebbit in 2011 while attending Boston College, developing it into a zero-party data platform before its acquisition by BlueConic in 2024. He also co-founded SSC Venture Partners to mentor and fund Boston College student and alumni startups.

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7 assertions · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 6 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

Coburn: Jebbit closed a $6.8M round after two seed rounds

“We did a convertible note to start and then we did a seed round in 2013. We did another seed round in 2015 and then we just closed a 6.8 million a couple weeks ago.”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 7:54 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said11 Episodes1

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Coburn: About 60% of consumers start Jebbit interactive experiences

“On average about 60%.”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 5:37 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

Insight

Coburn: Enterprise customer data is often inaccurate from third-party sourcing

“A lot of the data they have is either inaccurate outdated or potentially just irrelevant. Which has to do with really the way they have built their customer databases, which is often from piping in a lot of different third party data sources, behavioral data, …”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 2:38 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

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Coburn: 95% of consumers who start a Jebbit experience finish it

“What we are really good at by this point, having been doing this for about five years is that 95% of people that start one of these will go all the way through.”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 5:04 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

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Coburn: Jebbit's average customer pays $3,000 to $4,000 per month

“Average per month's around three or 4000 dollars.”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 7:00 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

Assertion Supported

Coburn: Jebbit closed a $6.8M round after two seed rounds

“We did a convertible note to start and then we did a seed round in 2013. We did another seed round in 2015 and then we just closed a 6.8 million a couple weeks ago.”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 7:54 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

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Coburn: Jebbit is closing contracts worth $20K to $30K per month

“We're starting to book more deals in the like 20 to 30 K a month range.”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 9:35 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

Disclosure

Coburn: Jebbit's annual logo churn was just under 20%

“So last year we lost just under 20% of logos annually which part of which was some of our own decision making, which I can get into in a second.”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 11:16 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

Disclosure

Coburn: Jebbit generated approximately -10% net revenue churn

“About -10%.”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 11:38 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

Disclosure

Coburn: Jebbit's fully loaded CAC is between $10,000 and $15,000

“Yeah, we're in, like, the 10 to 15 K range, and that's all in, that includes all salaries that are focused on getting new customers, marketing spend, etc.”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 12:34 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

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Coburn: Jebbit is just about to cross $5M ARR

“No, we're just about to get there.”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 16:07 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

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Coburn: Jebbit operates at 85% to 90% software gross margins

“Yep, correct. No, no, no weird costs.”

Tom Coburn Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 14:59 858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
858 SaaS: College Business Plan Turned $4m Biz, "We Just Raised $6m"	Nov 29, 2017	9m

Tom Coburn

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