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Alfonso de la Nuez Predicts UserZoom Will Reach $1B Valuation Soon
“No, I don't, I think we'll get there pretty soon. I'm very confident, and it's very exciting, of course, but no, we're not there yet.”
No competitor offers online equipment insurance policies in seven minutes
“There's essentially no place you can go sign up and have a policy in about seven, eight minutes, right? You don't have to speak to anybody. You just sign up basic information and you actually get the policy.”
Dragunov: Batch Products will become a billion-dollar brand in five years
“We're growing a billion dollar company brand in the next five years.”
Filipchuk: Party.Space does not compete with Hopin
“So we don't compete with Hopin because Hopin is not providing corporate events.”
Chowdhury: A FeedSauce co-founder is Apple's head of marketing
“And one of our co-founders is the head of marketing at Apple as well.”
Zickerman claims upcoming ISP deal will reach 300,000 businesses next year
“We're about to launch, I can't really talk about the deal, but a major hardware deal that's slated to have us in about 300,000 businesses next year, tier one ISP style.”
RiteKit invented auto-hashtagging technology, says founder Saul Fleischman
“Auto-hashtagging, we invented that.”
Keynejad: Veed can reach $10M ARR efficiently within two years
“I see a very comfortable, like I kind of see a decent path for the next couple of years to get to the ten million ARR and I think there's a very good possibility we're going to get there and we're going to get there relatively efficiently.”
Santens: European companies absorb about half of VAT increases on average
“We also see in Europe, too, that around, on average, about half of that is passed on, and about half is absorbed”
Santens: Post-pandemic job recovery will be worse than the 2008 recession
“So we're gonna, I expect us to see something even worse than we saw the last time this happened when, you know, it took 10 years to create all these jobs that we just lost in a matter of time.”
Latka: Additional stimulus payments will pass before the 2020 election
“I don't think Trump can turn that off between now and the election. I don't think that turns off. I think you see additional stimulus is passed. They're not calling it a UBI. It's in response to the virus, but we cannot turn these things off.”
Pysh: Bitcoin hashing power shifted significantly from China to North America
“So like, I would tell you in the 2017 timeframe, you had an enormous amount of the hashing power coming out of China. Today, I would argue you have a, you've had a massive shift of hashing power come into the North America region.”
Pompliano: China's demographic trajectory mirrors the US 50 years ago
“Demographically China is basically doing what the U.S. Did, you know, 50 years ago, right? They've got a much younger population and kind of the way that they're growing.”
Olark Created the First Floating Website Chat Box Widget
“And then over time because we are the first people who put this little floating chat box on the internet that created some virality. So like, you know, someone adds this to the site they see it's Olark and then they want it for their own site. Nowadays, that s…”
Saarenvirta: Daisy Intelligence can reach $1B valuation with 50 enterprise customers
“We envision if we get to about 50 to 60 customers, we think we'll be in the, you know, close to a billion dollar valuation, and we're already at, kind of, 17 today, so it doesn't seem like a stretch that over the next three years we could, we can get to that, …”
Eruimy: Shopify locks users in by owning their merchant data
“Because Shopify, you, you're in a closed environment. So your data are owned by Shopify. And if you want to shift to something else, you have to rebuild your store from scratch.”
CEO John Oechsle Predicts SwiftPage Will Reach $100M ARR By Mid-2021
“No, I'd say give me about two, two and a half years.”
Mattress companies typically traded at 3x to 4x revenue in 2018
“It's valued on the basis of maybe three or four times revenue.”
Fessler: Total Market for IP Protection Is Under $50M
“I would be surprised if the size of the total market today For intellectual property protection is more than 25 or fifty million dollars.”
Ghosh: Rwango is the only Wi-Fi proximity marketing company globally
“And we are the only guys in the world who do wifi based proximity marketing.”
Lamson predicts JazzHR will hit 25,000 paid customers by 2020
“We have a lofty goal of getting to 25,000 paid customers by the end of twenty-twenty. We're at 3000 now.”
Mediaocean claims to be the only adtech firm covering all media types
“We're the only ad tech company that is across all those media types.”
Engman: Climeon is over 50% more efficient than its nearest competitor
“So we are more than 50% more efficient than the number two.”
Bogart: Blockchain Capital Fund 4 will almost certainly be oversubscribed at $250M
“It's almost certainly going to be an oversubscribed, two hundred and fifty million dollar fund.”
Grant Cardone publicly predicted Jeremy Haynes's agency would fail within four months
“Grant actually followed that up with going on Cardone Zone and then saying that I'd publicly fail in four months.”
Herold: The financial markets are at their absolute peak in August 2017
“I think we're at the very, very peak of a market right now.”
Schreiber: No one had ever bought or sold freight online before Freightos
“And take into account that before Freighthouse, no one had ever sold freight online, and nobody had ever bought freight online.”
Korber: BreezoMeter is the only provider publishing accuracy reports
“We are the only company in the world, probably the only authority in the world that publish its accuracy. On a very clear, you can download accuracy reports in our website.”
Dream Funded was first SF platform approved for non-accredited investors
“We're fortunate that we're the first platform in Silicon Valley in San Francisco to receive the approval to allow they call it non-accredited investors to invest.”
Ozen: Vistar Media is the only programmatic out-of-home ad player
“Because we're the only player that does programmatic out of home.”
Jumper: SIGNiX is North America's only cloud digital signature provider
“So, we're the only cloud-based digital signature company in the U.S. Or North America. Everybody else is a e-signature solution.”
Organifi Clinical Trials Showed Weight Loss and Improved Cholesterol
“We've done clinical trials on it. So we've actually seen weight loss. We've seen improved depression backscore people improving their mood. We've seen good cholesterol levels increase, bad cholesterol decrease in our clinicals.”
Nathan Latka predicts he will take The Top Inbox public by 30
“I'm 27 now, and I have identified what I will build and take public. It's called thetopinbox.com. No questions asked. ... I bought the whole business. I will take it public.”
Rachleff: Wealthfront Was First To Bring Virality To Investing
“It's the first time a virality has been applied to the investment world.”
Camus: Competitor Gogobot struggled despite raising $60M, souring VCs on travel
“And one of them had raised close to sixty million dollars.
Which one?
Gogobot.
Yep.
They put ads and a lot of people in a really tough place because even with that amount of money they had raised they were not doing great as a business.”
Latka: I will take Send Later public by age 30
“I will build, send later into a big business, and I will take it public by the time I turn 30.”
Latka: I will take Send Later public by age 30
“I'm taking Send Later public by the time I turn 30.”
Latka: I will take Send Later public by age 30
“I will build send later and do a big business, and I will take it public by the time I turn 30.”
Latka: I Will Take Send Later Public by Age 30
“I'm taking Send Later public by the time I turn 30.”
Nathan Latka aims to take Send Later public by age 30
“I'm taking Send Later public by the time I turn 30.”
Collin: 100% of acquired email startups get shut down
“But also a hundred percent of those companies who have been acquired shut down.”
Latka plans to take Send Later public by age 30
“I will build Send Later into a big business, and I will take it public by the time I turn 30.”
Latka predicts he will take Send Later public by age 30
“I'm taking Send Later public by the time I turn 30.”
Havenwood predicted in 2016 that the Austin real estate bubble would pop
“You know that the market here to me is about to pop. I come from real estate investing. So to me, I'm like, there's no way I would invest right now in Austin.”
Yo Shirt was Kleiner Perkins' first seed-stage investment
“We were the first seed stage investment that they ever made. And we were, you know, very happy to have them in the deal.”