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Assertion Partly supported
Latka Shares Facebook and Expensify's Early User Activation Benchmarks
“When Facebook launched, they knew they had to get seven friends to a new user in the first week for you to be sticky, right? And then you're going to stick, Expensify, right? A B to B SaaS company. They know when an employee downloads their app, they've got to…”
Nathan Latka Nov 8, 2019 ▶ 6:13 1567 How New Employee Feedback Tool Plans to Monetize
Assertion Contradicted
Barrett: Expensify launched the first mobile expense app
“We brought the very first mobile app to expense reports.”
David Barrett Nov 15, 2017 ▶ 3:04 844: SaaS: How Ignoring CAC Works for ~$100m ARR Expensify
Assertion Supported
Barrett: Expensify has roughly five million total users
“So we've got about five million users total and then some subset of those pay for 40,000.”
David Barrett Nov 15, 2017 ▶ 6:22 844: SaaS: How Ignoring CAC Works for ~$100m ARR Expensify
Assertion Supported
Barrett: Expensify ARR is under $100 million
“We don't really share that, but I would say we're still under a hundred.”
David Barrett Nov 15, 2017 ▶ 8:21 844: SaaS: How Ignoring CAC Works for ~$100m ARR Expensify
Assertion Supported
Barrett: Expensify has raised approximately $25 million in outside capital
“Oh, no, we've raised capital, and so I started off for a couple of years just out of savings, and then we raised I think a total of, I think maybe twenty-five million”
David Barrett May 10, 2017 ▶ 8:18 655: Expensify 450k Customers Paying $9/mo for Expense Reports that Don't Suck with CEO David Barrett
Assertion Supported
Barrett: Expensify employs around 120 people
“About a 120, I think.”
David Barrett Nov 15, 2017 ▶ 5:28 844: SaaS: How Ignoring CAC Works for ~$100m ARR Expensify
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