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Concentric's 94% accurate auto sales forecast saved client $160M
“And when it launched we were 94% accurate on the actual vehicle sales for the first year of the car. So that allowed them to drop features that they might not have needed. It helped them tailor their advertising. And they saved a hundred and sixty million doll…”
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Concentric maintained 100% software customer retention over three years
“In the last three years, we've had a hundred percent repeat rate for our software customers.”
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Concentric's CAC is just 6% to 8% of first-year contract value
“It's pretty low cost in the sense that you know, when we go out and find the companies, we're just doing very traditional stuff, some basic marketing shows, so you can think of, like, our acquisition cost of, Maybe six to eight percent of the first year value …”
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Silverman: Concentric accurately predicted Battleship's $75M North American box office
“We predicted around seventy-five million for North America, and that's what it was.”
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Concentric grew revenue 100% year-over-year leading up to mid-2018
“A hundred percent.”
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Concentric serves 15 primary customers and over 50 global brands
“We've got what we'd call 15 primary customers. Some of them are partners, and so they might have another 10 each. So you can think about us, just over 50 different brands using the product globally.”
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Concentric's monthly revenue remained under $1 million in mid-2018
“We're still under.”
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Concentric shifted from majority-services to majority-SaaS revenue over 18 months
“We were probably two-thirds Consulting, one-third licensing. Now that's reversed. We're one-third, I mean, two-thirds licensing, one-third services.”