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Carr retains approximately 65% fully diluted equity in Carrot

Aaron Carr · HR SaaS Hits $500k ARR Helping Teams Give Rewards to Employees · Aug 28, 2021 · at 10:28

Aaron Carr is the founder of employee recognition platform Carrot, discussing his cap table and ownership retention after raising outside funding.

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“On a fully diluted basis, I'm about 65%.”

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“We start at three dollars per head per month. On average, based on the account size, it's about, let's say around 202 130 dollars per account.”
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“So we've done about 1.5 today. We've got another two million that will come in by the end of the year.”
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Carr: Carrot operates on a 3% take rate for gift cards
“So the gift cards, it's very thin margin. It's three percent.”
Aaron Carr Aug 28, 2021 ▶ 5:23 HR SaaS Hits $500k ARR Helping Teams Give Rewards to Employees
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Carr: Carrot generated nearly $40K in net platform revenue in July 2021
“So net platform revenue is for last month was closer to 40 K.”
Aaron Carr Aug 28, 2021 ▶ 6:40 HR SaaS Hits $500k ARR Helping Teams Give Rewards to Employees
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“All in direct advertising costs are between five to seven K Canadian a month.”
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