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Soni predicts Goldcast will cross $10M ARR by end of 2023
“We will easily cross ten million by end of this year, and hopefully we can double next year as well.”
Soni claims Goldcast's martech integrations are 10x better than Hopin
“The third is that our integrations and analytics and all the martech functionalities that, you know, the sales and marketing teams need. They are just The best in the market, tenx better than what, you know, horizontal platforms like Hopin, et cetera, offer.”
Soni: Concerns that virtual events cannibalize in-person attendance are unfounded
“I think also the, some of the concerns of people like not coming in person to and watching it virtually are unfounded. I think if given an option, people will attend An in-person event, and I'm saying that as CEO of a digital events company”
Soni: Gate in-person events for VIPs to protect virtual attendance
“What I have seen, at least in marketing domain, people do is that they would do some kind of gating for the in-person conference. They would get it to what they would call as high value target accounts, right? So they'll say, okay, if you are part of one of th…”
Goldcast's Q1 2023 digital event attendance surpassed all of 2022
“Just in our company, we have seen in just 10 weeks, the attendance of digital events has surpassed what we saw last year and the whole year.”
Soni: Multi-day virtual events rarely work; stick to 2-5 hours
“Seldom is a big two day, three day event with, you know, such a complex agenda in digital mode is the right thing to do. Unless you are, you know, something like an LG or Adobe, right, where you have such a wide audience across time zones that it means somethi…”
Goldcast positions against Hopin's massive 50K+ attendee trade show focus
“We don't go after, like, the big, you know, 50,000, 100,000 person trade shows, which is what, you know, VFairs hop in, specialize in.”
Goldcast sustains a net monthly burn rate up to $1M
“Our net burn per month, Nathan, is somewhere between 600 to a million, so it's still high, but.”
Goldcast operates at a 25% opportunity-to-close win rate
“So our opportunity to close rate is 25%. Which is actually pretty good for an industry that's competitive.”
Goldcast offsets 20% gross churn with 30% account expansion
“So off this, we will, let's say we started with a hundred dollars. We will have churned 20 dollars and expanded 30 dollars.”
Palash Soni: Goldcast has over two years of runway
“We easily have at least two plus years of runway.”
Goldcast Account Executives carry an average $800,000 annual sales quota
“Yes. Some, yeah, on average, like one odd carry higher, but it's 800 K on average.”
Goldcast crosses $500,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“We are at five, north of 500 K. 500,000 a month.”
Goldcast pivots from attendee-based pricing to per-team software licenses
“Yeah, since the last time we spoke, Nathan, it has changed. Now we charge based on number of teams that companies use.”
Soni: LG and Salesloft successfully rebroadcast in-person talks with live Q&A
“So we have had LG do this recently and there was a sales loft also. They did one in Atlanta and then they did like a version of their Event virtually. And they did, they had their speakers come in and answer questions.”
Soni: GitHub has around 30 teams using Goldcast for events
“One of our largest customers is GitHub and they started with us in in May of 2020 and they Started with us doing an event series in, in Europe for one of their, you know, new product launches. So they did an event series throughout the year for 20, 30 events. …”
Goldcast sets fully ramped AE quotas between $800K and $1.2M ARR
“Fully ramped. We consider right now our time is like four months, four to five months for fully ramped. And after that, it's between 800 to a million to 1.2 million.”
90% of closed Goldcast customers attended an event first
“Most of our customers, like we did some math recently, like, 90% of our customers we close are people who attended an event before talking to sales.”
Drift became Goldcast's first major customer via an investor event
“So our first big customer was Drift that we signed because they spoke at underscores event, like the CEO, David Kanceli spoke at underscores event. That was hosted by Goldcaster and underscore was our investor.”
Goldcast contracts range from $10k to $230k, averaging $25k
“So we have contracts that are, you know, all the way from 10 K to 230 K, but mostly in that all part, 25.”
Goldcast reached $400K in ARR by April 2021
“Last April was just end of first quarter. So we were at 400 K. 400 K. Annual ARR.”