why aren't all 5 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
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;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Contradicted
Zendesk Holds Over 20% Market Share in Help Desk Software
“I think if you take revenue, for example, like Zendesk and help desk space has 20 plus percent of the market share.”
Assertion Partly supported
Price: Zendesk acquired first 10,000 customers with zero salespeople
“Zendesk got its first 10,000 customers without any salespeople, and what they figured out was a way to actually take something that was Kind of simple that everybody needed, which was customer service, but cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and loads of con…”
Assertion Supported
Price: Over a third of Zendesk MRR comes from 100-agent accounts
“You know, our, I think over a third of our MRR now comes from customers with more than a hundred agents, and we are investing all the time in order to add capabilities within that area, but at the same time, keep the product super simple to deploy and configur…”
Assertion Supported
Price: Dollar Shave Club used AnswerBot to improve service, not cut headcount
“I mean, what's interesting on AnswerBot, which is our product, one of our earlier customers was Dollar Shave Club. And actually what they did was, even though that they were freeing up time, even though that we are answering more, more solutions, they decided …”
Assertion Supported
Alionço: Pipefy raised a $2.4M seed round from Trinity and Redpoint
“We raised a 2.4 million from really good investors, like the founders of Zendesk, Trinity Ventures, Redpoint, eVentures, Valor Capital, and we ran two syndicates at Funders Club and at AngelList as well.”