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Boufarhat: Hopin will likely be the fastest-growing company in the world
“Whereas with Hopin, I always said, we're probably going to be the fastest growing company in the world when we decide to push out, because we saw the viral effect.”
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.”
Filipchuk: Party.Space does not compete with Hopin
“So we don't compete with Hopin because Hopin is not providing corporate events.”
Boufarhat: Hopin's pandemic-driven hypergrowth numbers are not sustainable
“None of the numbers that are happening right now in our product are sustainable.”
Boufarhat: Hopin reached $1.8M ARR within three weeks of public access
“And you know, it's been hard to manage it, but in that time, in about three weeks, where I think we're at now, 1.8 million ARR from the car. I mean, I, when I filled in the form with you, it was one.”
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.”
Disco's platform replaces complex integrations of Hopin, Slack, and curriculum tools
“It's actually quite complex for people to sort of piece together a hop in with a slack with a, you know, curriculum tool. And so we just make it super simple in one place.”
Yunus considers vFairs the largest bootstrapped virtual event platform
“I, yeah, I would like to believe that, yeah. I think, I don't think so, you know, when I look at others like Intrado, SixConnects, Hopin, I think, you know, each one of them is no longer bootstrapped, so I would like to believe that, yeah.”
Boufarhat: Hopin's monthly revenue churn was around 11% in May 2020
“I saw the numbers actually yesterday and it looked like it was around it was around 11%.”
Boufarhat: Hopin's fundraise began in December 2019, before the pandemic
“No, there was nothing. There was, the virus hadn't hit yet. I mean, the process began in December.”
Boufarhat: Hopin raised a $7M round from Accel
“We raised a five million pounds around seven million dollars.”
Boufarhat: Hopin hit nearly 180,000 waitlist signups and onboarded 2,000 users
“We have this waitlist now close to a 180,000 and we've probably onboarded about 2000 of it.”
Boufarhat: 10% of Hopin beta event attendees converted into prospective users
“About a 1800 people would show up to a private, one of our early access or really deep early access events. And we were noticing that about 10% of people would go in and try and fill a form would fill the form.”
Latka: Hopin reached a $20M run rate from $1M in 18 months
“Hopin just crossed a twenty million dollar run rate up from about a million dollar run rate 18 months ago.”
Boufarhat: Legacy virtual events have existed 12 years and historically suck
“You know, there's been virtual events have existed for 12 years, kind of always sucks.”
Boufarhat: Hopin's gross burn rate is close to $400,000 per month
“We're currently burning close to 400,000.”
Boufarhat: Hopin receives around 1,000 inbound website leads daily
“I mean, I'm gonna have to take a look at this, but I think the number is close to the HubSpot form, sorry, the website form gets a lot you know, over a thousand, whereas the around a thousand a day, and the type form gets about 130 to 180 a day.”
Boufarhat: 95% of Hopin's waitlist signups are prospective event organizers
“Well, it asks you if you want to be an organizer or not, and so most of them select organizers, so it, it's about 95% organizer.”
Boufarhat: Hopin built an 80,000-person waitlist in nine months before COVID
“The waitlist side before COVID was around 80,000, and that was over nine months.”