Tony Urban

1 appearance on the record.

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3 predictions · 4 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are 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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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Competitor think-cell generates over $100 million in annual revenue
“Sure let's say I had some other data points which reconfirmed my initial assumption, so I'm pretty confident that they're making over a hundred million a year, actually way over that.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 13:18 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster

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Prediction Not checkable as stated
DeckRobot needs only five large enterprise customers to become a unicorn
“So we might have ended up having five customers will be more than enough to become a unicorn.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 2:12 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Assertion Supported
Competitor think-cell generates over $100 million in annual revenue
“Sure let's say I had some other data points which reconfirmed my initial assumption, so I'm pretty confident that they're making over a hundred million a year, actually way over that.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 13:18 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Disclosure
DeckRobot's average enterprise contract ranges from $300,000 to $700,000
“The smallest contracts are anywhere from 100 K to 300 K. The average is 300 to 700 K, and the biggest are the multi-million engagement.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 3:55 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Insight
One senior machine learning engineer equals ten junior engineers in output
“A senior machine learning engineer can make the same as a 10 junior folks.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 9:29 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Opinion
Pitch and Beautiful.ai lack a meaningful enterprise market presence
“There is a lot of other great folks around the block, which are not existent in enterprise markets, like peach.com, beautiful.ai be just not our competitors.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 14:37 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Disclosure
DeckRobot replaced junior staff with senior hires to maintain flat headcount
“When COVID started, we downsized the team and left only the more senior folks. Then we basically replaced junior folks by senior folks when raised capital. So, in terms of headcount, we try to stay pretty much the same. In terms of the team cost, it actually c…”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 8:57 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Prediction Not checkable as stated
DeckRobot targets 15x revenue growth for the 2021 calendar year
“I mean, on every dollar we made January this year, we'll try to have 15 dollars by December. So growing one, five, 15 times.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 9:52 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Prediction Not checkable as stated
DeckRobot expects to reach a $7.5M revenue run rate in 2022
“I think most likely it's going to happen next year.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 11:12 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DeckRobot's top power user produces 7,000 slides per month
“We have some users, like one user producing 7000 slides a month.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 1:20 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DeckRobot's power users work at Big Four and Big Three firms
“So they're internal agencies, like designers working for big professional services firms, like Big Four, Big Three.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 1:30 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Disclosure
DeckRobot currently serves fewer than 20 enterprise customers
“Yeah, so right now it's more, but not that more, it's less than 20.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 1:52 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Disclosure
DeckRobot outsources all support and employs only senior staff internally
“Right now, all the support is outsourced, and folks in the team are very senior.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 6:52 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
Assertion Supported
Presentation software competitor think-cell has over 800,000 users
“They have over 800,000 users right now, and you can check the pricing.”
Tony Urban Jun 12, 2021 ▶ 12:40 DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster Jun 12, 2021 8m
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