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Tran sees major uncaptured value in international technical education
“So I think there's this major opportunity in the sense that the international market has education that it's probably not on par with, like, English, or, sorry, American education but it offers a lot of value and hasn't been captured, hasn't been captured by t…”
Tran: Reinvesting in XFusion yields better ROI than public or private markets
“I want to reinvest this for as long as we can, because I feel like the ROI of that is better than anything else I can find on the public market, and even the private markets.”
Tran: Outsourced Support Staff Retain Over Three Years, Driving High LTV
“I think when you get someone on with support, they usually stick around, based on the, like, industry metrics, three plus years, and that's some, that's a pretty, like, that leads to pretty good LTVs.”
Tran: Support agency industry norm is 30% to 50% profit margins
“The industry norm is around 30 to 50% in profit margins”
David Tran: Hiring Direct Support Eats Founder Focus to Save Minor Cash
“For a lot of early founders, the most important thing to them is their time. Effectively the time is what either makes or breaks their company. And if they're trying to save a couple hundred dollars by hiring someone directly, it eats up a lot of focus.”
Tran: Almost all XFusion support hires hold computer science degrees
“Almost, I think everyone we've had thus far as a computer science degree.”
Tran: XFusion has been profitable from the very beginning
“We just don't see the need to like, it's a profit from the, it's profitable from the very beginning.”
Tran: Saved 10 years of living expenses while at Uber
“When I was working at Uber, my intention was to build up roughly 10 years of living expenses so I can just hit the ground running for 10 years. So even if I failed constantly for 10 years straight, I can at least pay for my cost of living in a relatively, like…”