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Brian Scudamore predicts WOW 1 DAY PAINTING will eclipse 1-800-GOT-JUNK
“I know for sure. Wow. One day painting will one day be bigger than one, 800 got junk just because the market is bigger.”
Latka: GitLab raised $100M one month after denying fundraising
“And sure enough, a month after I do the interview, you know, GitLab raised a hundred million dollars.”
Cisco: Select will target a $40M pre-money valuation
“I think we'll be in the neighborhood of like 40, Pre-fifty post. It's possible it goes higher than that.”
Kidron: Oramed will probably enter the Chinese market before the US
“And with the Chinese FDA, we're probably going to get to the market even before the United States.”
Latka: Infusionsoft cut monthly churn from 8% to 2% with $2,000 fee
“Clay is like, he realized once he put a 2000 dollar setup fee on his retention, like went from eight was turned went from eight percent monthly down to like two percent monthly.”
Sweeney: Clarify Medical will exit between $500 million and $1 billion
“Well, I don't do companies that aren't, don't hit a billion, so that's my goal.
I'd say, you know, it'll be somewhere between half a billion and a billion on exit value.”
Ultrasonic waves prevent lice from developing resistance
“The lice cannot develop any resistance to such a being. As opposed to all the chemicals that are used today for trying to fight this epidemic.”
Kandanchatha predicts Patriot One Technologies will become a billion-dollar company
“And I want to make sure that I'm, that it's going to get executed effectively and it's going to be a billion dollar company.”
Fishkin: Moz has 23,000 paying customers and 6.3% monthly churn
“We have 23, about 23,000 paying customers, and so in order to have net negative revenue churn on a self-service model with 6.3% average monthly churn, we would have to be upselling customers at a, at an insane rate, right?”
Moz Pro generates 85% to 90% of Moz's revenue
“Does all the marketing costs go into just pro, which is essentially our you know, the product that I'm talking about, our largest product. Which is responsible for 85 to 90% of our revenue.”
Campbell: Uber will never acquire his blog, The Rideshare Guy
“I don't think that they would ever acquire me.”
Froda Generated Approximately $57 Million in Revenue Last Year
“So last year we did about fifty-seven million. Something like that?”
Sinha: Puma Uses Dresma to Localize European Product Catalog for Southeast Asia
“Puma uses us to basically localize content for all the markets that they are in. So to give you an example we recently essentially helped them launched in Southeast Asia. So all the content that was designed for their European market was localized for the Sout…”
Yadegari's college admissions tweet received 28 million views
“It got twenty eight million views, and then if you scroll down the personal statement, got forty million views by itself, and so that garnered so much attention, and we actually had a few stations reaching out”
Typeform's annual growth slowed to 31% in 2018
“But eventually, in 2018, the growth has slowed down to that 31%.”
Talley: T-Mobile adopted Everywhere's mobile payment system
“Even companies like T-Mobile and other large enterprise companies really started adopting this as a payment method.”
Berman: Twitter lead giveaway generated 400 comments in one day
“I was just giving away 379 leads. We have 400 comments in a day and each one of those 400, they get the leads. And then the second thing in the comment is a link to Omni.”
Pipelyne raised a €1.5M seed round in late 2021
“And before Christmas, we raised 1.5 million for Pipeline.”
Productfy added 150,000 production users between January and August 2021
“Between January and August, I think it was like a hundred and 50,000 production users got added to our system.”
QuantHub raised its 2020 priced round at an $8M pre-money valuation
“We raised it an eight million dollar pre.”
Keboola revenue: $2.4M in 2018, $4.1M in 2019, $4.7M in 2020
“In 2020, we actually ended four seven, 2019, we actually ended 4.1, and 2018, we actually ended 2.4.”
Claap raised its $3 million seed round at $14.5M pre-money
“The valuation, like, pre-money was around, like, 14.5 million.”
Latka: RiskScout raised $2.2M at a $12M valuation
“They've raised about three million bucks to do it. Last one was 2.2 million on a twelve million valuation, teeing up and getting ready for their series A.”
Perry: BlackRock was D-ID's first enterprise customer
“If I'm not mistaken, the first customer was BlackRock no fortune 100 company.”
Hutchison: Flippa has reached $600M in lifetime total transaction value
“No, so we're at about 600,000,600 million in, in transactional TTV, so total transaction value.”
GitLab's engineering org has 393 people and 143 vacancies
“Engineering function is 393 people and 143 vacancies.”
Memsource Grew Revenue 100% Year-Over-Year in 2018
“So we grew a hundred percent year on year last year.”
Latka: Infusionsoft Had 8% Monthly Logo Churn in Early Days
“You know, infusion soft was churning eight percent of, you know, logo churn per month back in the day.”
Gross: Tekcapital made $1.5M profit on $3.8M sales in H1 2017
“You know, in the first six months of this year we did 3.8 million in sales, and we made about a million and a half dollars.”
Moz ARPU was around $119.60 per month in April 2016
“A 119 dollars. A little more than that, like one 19 60, something like that.”
Fishkin: Moz's customer acquisition cost is between $90 and $120
“But the nice thing is it is definitely somewhere between, depending on how you want to calculate it, 90 dollars and a 120 dollars.”
Fishkin: Moz's average customer lifetime is about 9.5 to 10 months
“If you want to call it across the entire cohort, I think average customer life is like 9.5 months or something, 10 months, something like that.”
Empire Flippers facilitated over $1M in transaction volume in April 2016 alone
“We did a 1.9 million in Q one. And in April we did just over a million dollars. So our growth has been pretty rapid, especially the last 12 to 18 months or so.”
Vaca: Amp Live generated $1.3 million in revenue in 2015
“Our revenue in 2015 was 1.3 million dollars.”
Hawk: iGo raised less than $10 million before its 1999 IPO
“We raised less than ten million before we went public.”
Hawk: iGo achieved profitability during its first three years in business
“We were profitable our first three years in business.”
Leland: T.ly URL shortener extension had 60,000 users in 2019
“Back in 2019, it had 60,000 users. So that's kind of the growth of the past three years or so.”
Despite raising €1.5M, Pipelyne is currently just an email capture page
“If you go to pipeline.com, you'll see it's literally a landing page with an email off that says landing, launching March, and we're recording this year on March, so it's literally not launched yet.”
Brown: Interactive Intelligence grew revenue from $1.5M to $18M at 1999 IPO
“We, ah, we released our product in 97 and, ah, did 1.5 million dollars in revenue. In 98, we did nine million dollars. In 99, when we went public, we did eighteen million dollars in revenue.”
Latka: 79% of Interviewed Founders Are Married With Kids
“Actually, I can give you the exact data. 79% are married with at least one kid.”