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Pokrandt: Bitmain, Bitfury, and Genesis Mining each hold 10% market share
“The big players are really a bit main bit fury and Genesis cap Genesis mining. And there are, I believe they're all roughly 10% of the market.”
Meir: TravelPerk is the only free business travel platform
“We are the only free platform, the only free solution in business travel.”
Meir: 70% to 80% of Booking.com staff work in customer support
“Booking.com out of you know, a lot, many thousands of full-time employees, around 70 or 80% of them are in customer support.”
Casper approached a $500M annual revenue run rate in 2018
“They did, they're approaching the five hundred million dollar run rate as best we can tell.”
Acclaim went bankrupt because their auditor fired them
“They couldn't file their public statements or publicly traded company. They, their auditor fired them and they couldn't file anymore.”
Tella projected Workato would cross $50M ARR by 2020
“You know, I think, you know, we're looking to do that, do it you know, within the next one to two years.”
Latka: ToutApp Sold for $5M After Raising $16M
“ToutApp did not sell for between 30 and 40. They sold for five million dollars after raising sixteen million. It was a total wash for everybody.”
Davis: There are no major nationwide mobile food vendor chains
“There really are no nationwide or worldwide kind of the mobile vendors. Cousins Made Lobster might be the closest one where you have a food truck, you know, a franchise of 16 across the country”
Ghosh: Amazon Go relies on Bluetooth for proximity and Wi-Fi for range
“I hear from guys there that they're using Bluetooth as well as Wi-Fi. Bluetooth for near-field communications or, you know, communications that need much more granularity and Wi-Fi for a little far away communication.”
Stevenson: Facebook Messenger subscriber lists cannot be migrated between platforms
“The problem with messenger is it's based on where you get the authorization. So you can't move a messenger list from one place to the next.”
Immune systems reject foreign stem cells, requiring you to bank your own
“You need your own stem cells. You can't be using other people's cells. Like, this is why we exist. So a lot of people are like, why can't I just use my kids? Your immune system will wipe them out. You really need your own.”
Vishnoi: Tagovie owns 25% of the US co-browsing market
“We focusing on video and co-browsings, and we are like the major player in the market for co-brows. Like we own 25% of United States market in, in a co-browse.”
Gartner: The Average Enterprise Uses Over 1,000 SaaS Applications
“And now with an average enterprise, according to Gartner, using over a thousand SAS applications, it's kind of mind boggling.”
Rothrock: Average detection-to-remediation time is 200 days
“The average time from detection to remediation is 200 days.”
FreeConferenceCall.com is the third-largest US conferencing provider
“But all of the other guys had done a lot of purchases, you know, acquisitions to gain base as opposed to, but we're about, I think we're the third largest in this country.”
Blachman: Tophatter will reach $1B+ in top-line revenue within a few years
“And we think that within a few years, you know, this is at least a billion dollar top line business.”
Thomas: CMOs now spend more on enterprise technology than CIOs
“The CMO is now spending more than CIO on, on, on technology.”
Exponea Anticipates October Funding Round at $50M+ Valuation
“So we believe we will raise the round in October, and by that time, the valuation should be over 50.”
Organ predicts Influitive will reach $100 million ARR within five years
“I think it would be four to five years.”
Barrett: Expensify launched the first mobile expense app
“We brought the very first mobile app to expense reports.”
Thomas: Corporate Cross-Border Payments Suffer 6% to 10% Failure Rates
“Today, when you, let's say you're corporate, right, so let's say you're, you know, Samsung, and you're trying to make a payment you know, you will have failure rates on the order of, you know, six to 10%, just from, you know, wrong details for the recipient, s…”
Gunderson: 91% of people worth over $5M own a business
“91% of people worth five million or more own a business.”
StockTwits is pivoting to crypto to launch its own ICO
“I think they simply decided to switch or even pivot completely to cryptocurrency, and now they're moving also creating their own crowd sale and what they're doing.”
Mobile app developers pay $7 to $8 for every app download
“App developers pay seven or eight dollars just for every single user that downloads that app, so they're precious.”
Pinterest changed its employee option exercise window to be unlimited
“Pinterest changed that window to be unlimited infinity window. So you don't even have to make that call, which is super exciting.”
Tang: Livepeer is the only dApp video streaming solution in 2017
“If you are Creating a decentralized application, and you want to add video streaming to the application, there is right now really no solution to do that, because all the video streaming solutions are centralized solutions, and we are kind of, we're kind of th…”
Kineshanko claims Chinese crypto miners negotiated free power on massive ships
“There's mining shops that have like purchased massive ships in China and they've negotiated to get free power from the Chinese government to mine this stuff.”
Peterson: Würk Is Only National Payroll HR Tech in Cannabis
“And right now we're the only national reaching payroll HR technology in this industry.”
Gifting drives 50% to 75% of the baby apparel market
“About 50 to 75% of the market is through gifting, and there is no way for Maureen to know our, what gifts our mother received.”
Klein: Only 52% of Investors Aged 20-29 Match the Aggressive Stereotype
“What we found, actually, we had a team of academics delve into the data and the methodology behind the risk number, and what they found was that about 52% of investors aged 20 to 29 are aggressive, just like the stereotype. But the other 48% are spread across …”
Segala: SFL Scientific's ML suite got Stanford client FDA approval
“So they basically hired us to build out this entire suite of AI machine learning product solutions, and we did that, and it actually got them through FDA regulations, right?”
Golan: Corporate Data Grows 100% Year-over-Year Globally Across All Industries
“Data grows on average in any company on earth, doesn't matter the size, the vertical the geo at a hundred percent year over year, two X.”
Talkdesk plans to raise a new funding round in 2017
“We're definitely going to raise around sometime this year”
Stein: 80% of his Harvard graduating class entered finance
“80% of the graduating class from Harvard went into finance of some sort.”
Le Moal: Consumer credit will drive 10% of PayU revenue in 2-3 years
“10% of the total revenues will come purely just from the credit activity. That's what you get basically, you know, around 24 months, 36 months from inception.”
Garcia: 70% of drone crashes are caused by human error
“Approximately 70% of all UAV crashes are due to human error and not the UAV itself.”
Dhillon: SnapLogic Raised Half as Much Capital as Average Pre-IPO SaaS
“We've raised about half of what the average SaaS company does to an IPO. Half.”
Mehr: $89/mo subscription businesses typically see 40-50% month-one churn
“Most subscription businesses around this price point would lose 40, 50% of their customers on month one. Month one is the highest churn.”
Ferrara: GoldMine was acquired for $125M in all-cash deal in 1999
“And so we took cash back in the day and it was about one hundred and twenty five million dollars in cash, but no strings attached.”
Cantey: Top 20 U.S. airports all have parking expansion projects
“The modernization projects that I mentioned At the top 20 airports, they all have parking expansion projects, and these are based on a 15 airport study that was completed last year in partnership with the U.S. Government and, you know, some of these top airpor…”
Cantey predicts ParkEvergreen will eventually monopolize entire airport parking facilities
“Eventually we'll take over entire facilities, and so the only way to park will be to use Park Evergreen.”
FinTech Focus Is Shifting From Payments to Wealth Management
“We have seen a move away from payments and lending as being the key fintech themes. And we now move increasingly towards investment related stuff”
TabWords installs tablets in Indian Uber cabs broadcasting Netflix and ads.
“What we do in TabWords is we put tablets behind headrests of Uber cabs across across India for now, and we broadcast ads, and we broadcast content in these tablets from Netflix.”
Fowler: Foxit Distribution Will Put Findo In 6.5M PDF Readers Monthly
“Every PDF reader that Foxit, which is the competitor of Adobe, has, will be including a Finder within it. So that could be up to six and a half million a month.”