Vlad Jovtenko

1 appearance on the record.

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Assertion Supported
Jovtenko: Brazilian big-city tech pay is roughly double smaller cities
“Don't hire in Rio or in other big cities because the pay grades, and we actually checked, is probably two times compared to smaller cities.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 7:52 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

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What-if
Jovtenko: RedTrack would have hit $1M ARR without Ukraine war
“And I mean, I'll be honest, if not, the one Ukraine would be there last three months were a bit rough for us.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 4:24 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Assertion Supported
Jovtenko: Brazilian big-city tech pay is roughly double smaller cities
“Don't hire in Rio or in other big cities because the pay grades, and we actually checked, is probably two times compared to smaller cities.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 7:52 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Insight
Jovtenko: SaaS startups shouldn't raise Series A under $1.5M ARR
“You don't raise Series A until you got at least 1.5 million.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 10:09 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Insight
Jovtenko: SaaS pricing should be distinct buckets, not a linear journey
“Your customer pricing is not a journey from lower to higher. Your customer should be in buckets. And that was like, wow, you're so right. And we reshaped our pricing completely.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 14:13 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vlad Jovtenko: RedTrack increased ARPU from $40 to $200 per month
“We for the last two years, that's basically since last time we talked, we increased our average revenue per customer from 400 to close to 200 dollars per month, and that's what people are paying us now.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 2:00 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vlad Jovtenko: RedTrack's largest customer pays around $60,000 annually
“Annually around 60 K without overspend.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 2:58 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vlad Jovtenko: RedTrack's largest customer tracks over a billion monthly clicks
“Well slightly more than a billion.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 3:31 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Disclosure
Jovtenko: RedTrack generates $75,000 in monthly revenue
“So yeah, we are doing currently 75 K per month.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 4:15 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Disclosure
Jovtenko: RedTrack growth slowed to 1-2% monthly, missing $1M ARR
“So we were growing a couple of last month, just one or two percent per month, which stopped us short of reaching one million Aurora, which was my goal for June.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 4:40 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Disclosure
Jovtenko: RedTrack raised $750k late-seed round
“We raised another round and we actually did the closure just a couple of months ago. We raised a late seed round, let's call it at 750.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 9:49 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Disclosure
Jovtenko: RedTrack raised late-seed round at $9M post-money valuation
“We raised at post money would be nine million.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 10:30 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jovtenko: RedTrack has a monthly net burn of $60,000
“We're burning like 60,000 per month right now.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 11:38 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Disclosure
Jovtenko: RedTrack works with 500 total customers
“500.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 4:04 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool Aug 3, 2022 8m
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