Baird Hall reports Wavve's monthly gross churn is between 9% and 11%
Baird Hall · Wavve Hits 9k For Audio Video Tool, $70k Monthly Profits! · Aug 19, 2020 · at 25:36
Baird Hall discusses the unit economics and prosumer customer base of his audio-video tool Wavve with Nathan Latka.
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“Between nine and 11%. It bounces around quite a bit seasonally, but so yeah, it's pretty high. We're in that prosumer area not quite consumer, but not B to B either with podcasters.”
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