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Assertion Supported
Dimitro Okunyev positions Chanty as 10x cheaper than Slack, Zoom, and Trello
“You know, Lapsum for the Slack, Microsoft, Slack, Zoom, and Trello would be like 41 dollar, so we are almost 10 times cheaper.”
Dmitry Okunev Jan 23, 2024 ▶ 9:02 How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team
Prediction Held up
Latka predicts Zoom will enter the asynchronous video meeting space
“And I imagine Zoom will also get into this at some point.”
Nathan Latka Sep 2, 2021 ▶ 3:33 Claap Is a More Feature Rich Loom for Product Managers, $3m Raised on $17.5m Post Money Valuation
Assertion Contradicted
Walker: Previous 30 SaaS IPOs averaged 28-32% growth pre-IPO
“If you look at the last, you know, last 30 SaaS IPOs. I think other than, you know, other than Zoom, which is the world's greatest IPO in the history of the Valley, I think anything like, you know, they're averaging around 30, 28, 30, 32% going into an IPO.”
Craig Walker Jul 5, 2020 ▶ 20:57 Dialpad CEO "We'll break $100m in 2020, comfortable burning $1m/mo, $45m in bank"
Assertion Supported
Trello Required In-Office Staff to Join Zoom Meetings From Separate Rooms
“They had pretty hard rules around when you joined a zoom or when you joined a meeting and there were maybe five people in a room, everybody went to five different places and joined a zoom from five different locations. And so the people that were outside of th…”
Jay Simons May 10, 2019 ▶ 5:27 1385 Atlassian Passes $1B ARR Run Rate, Thinking About Acquisitions of "System of Record" companies
Assertion Supported
Latka: Zoom ARR is north of $150M
“I would say they're north of one 50 at this point in terms of AR and definitely pushing a billion dollar in terms of valuation.”
Nathan Latka Feb 6, 2019 ▶ 25:03 1292 How Cvent Hit $500m Bookings with Eyes on $1B in Meeting and Event Space
Assertion Supported
Top WebEx engineers left Cisco to join Zoom shortly after launch
“I left at Cisco end of June of 2011, and that's how I started Zoom, and one month later, some top Webex engineers, they quit and followed me to start, to join Zoom.”
Eric Yuan May 4, 2018 ▶ 5:19 1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR
Assertion Partly supported
Mortensen: Zoom's S-1 showed 53% of enterprise clients began individually
“They stated that 53% of all of their enterprise customers initially started as a single individual who just signed up and added their personal credit card.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 24:19 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
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