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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Assertion Supported
Berry: ConvertKit is far ahead of Mailchimp's eight-year growth curve
“When I look at the curve that I'm on with ConvertKit, and if, and the curve that MailChimp did, if we were to overlay those two, ConvertKit is far ahead. Like if we put the start date of the two of them, ConvertKit is far ahead on that curve than MailChimp was…”
Assertion Supported
ConvertKit's first eight years of revenue grew faster than Mailchimp's
“When I look at the curve that I'm on with ConvertKit, and if, and the curve that MailChimp did, if we were to overlay those two, ConvertKit is far ahead. Like if we put the start date of the two of them, ConvertKit is far ahead on that curve than MailChimp was…”
Assertion Supported
ConvertKit reached $25 million in annual recurring revenue
“Yeah, so we're at twenty five million ARR right now.”
Assertion Supported
ConvertKit Passed $1B in Aggregated Creator Earnings by January 2021
“January of this year, we passed a billion dollars earned by creators on ConvertKit or, Through, like, other platforms.”
Assertion Supported
Dunn: ConvertKit only worked out once Nathan Barry went all in
“I mean, he was at the same point with ConvertKit where he was splitting his time. And when he went all in on ConvertKit, that's when everything started to work out.”
Assertion Supported
ConvertKit grew from $2,000 to $100,000 MRR in 12 months
“So January, 2016, the previous 12 months, we'd grown from 2000 in MRR to a 100,000 in MRR.”
Assertion Supported
ConvertKit reached 250,000 active users
“But like now for ConvertKit, it's like, oh, we have 250,000 users.”
Assertion Partly supported
ConvertKit grew monthly recurring revenue from $2K to $100K in 12 months
“So January, 2016, the previous 12 months, we'd grown from 2000 in MRR to a 100,000 in MRR.”
Assertion Supported
ConvertKit has reached a milestone of 250,000 total users
“But like, now for ConvertKit, it's like, oh, we have 250,000 users, and so let's just tell them to use this new thing.”
Assertion Supported
Berry: ConvertKit has reached $25M in ARR
“Yeah, so we're at twenty five million ARR right now.”
Prediction Partly held up
Barry: ConvertKit will generate $3.5M to $4M in 2016 revenue
“I tend to focus on the monthly numbers, but it's going to be, you know, three and a half, four million.”
Assertion Supported
Barry: ConvertKit ARPU is $48 with 65% on $29 plan
“So we're at about 48 dollars in average revenue per user. So about 65% of our customers are on that 29 dollar a month plan.”
Assertion Supported
Barry: ConvertKit hovered at $1,000 to $2,000 monthly revenue for two years
“So I actually launched it back in 2013. And it was kind of a side project and effort there. And it kind of floundered around for about, you know, a 1002 thousand dollars a month for almost two years.”
Assertion Supported
Barry: ConvertKit has about 10,000 blogger customers
“We have about 10,000 bloggers as customers.”
Assertion Supported
Barry: ConvertKit employs 24 full-time remote team members
“So all around, we're at 24 full-time people now.”