why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kira Talent reports net negative 20% revenue churn
“We have -20% churn.”
What-if
Cushman: Kira Talent should have bootstrapped instead of raising venture capital
“Oh, never to raise VC money. I would have bootstrapped this from the start.”
Disclosure
Cushman: Kira Talent's Average ACV Is $20,000 for 1,000 Applicants
“So pretty average is we'll get a program. Maybe it's an MBA program or a master's of finance about a thousand applicants and they'll pay about 20 grand and that's an annual contract value.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cushman: Kira Talent has scaled to 300 university campuses
“300.”
Assertion Supported
Cushman: Kira Talent raised over $8 million across multiple funding rounds
“We did an angel round of 300,000. We did a seed round of just over two million. And then we actually had a leadership change. So our investors brought in a CEO to come in and run the company for a couple of years. And in that time when we had a different CEO h…”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cushman: Kira Talent is breakeven and will turn profitable within months
“So now we're operating breakeven. We'll turn to profitability in the next couple months, and it's a whole different way of operating.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kira Talent grows at approximately 75% year-over-year
“So, I mean, we grow, like, just to kind of make it on a broader sense, like, we probably grow 75% year-over-year now, and that's mainly a factor of the space that we're in”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kira Talent maintains a 3:1 LTV to CAC ratio
“We have a three to one LTV to CAC.”