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Beckor: Uptime users average about eight minutes of daily consumption
“And we're getting around people completing about eight minutes a day average for, which puts us actually probably close to TikTok territory.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 2:05 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uptime produces book summaries in about a couple of hours
“Right now we can produce, we can do a hack in about a couple of hours.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 4:04 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
Disclosure
Beckor: Uptime raised $20 million in pre-product capital
“Yeah, we raised twenty million.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 5:56 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
Insight
Beckor: Healthy App Download-to-Signup Conversion Rate Is About 70%
“From download to sign up, I would say healthy is about 70% to sign up.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 14:42 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
Insight
Beckor: Founder Track Record Directly Determines Pre-Product Valuation
“It's really about having a track, the more, the bigger the track record you have, the higher the number you can go. And that's really what it's down to.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 18:55 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Beckor: Uptime has reached roughly 35,000 monthly active users
“So, so right now we're, we are, well, we've got about, on a monthly basis, about 35,000 active users.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 3:03 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
Assertion Supported
Beckor: LifeWorks reached $100M revenue in four years before acquisition
“And we built that business over four years. We touched thirteen million employees and had a hundred million ARR revenue, which we sold in 2000 1817.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 6:26 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
Assertion Partly supported
Beckor: LifeWorks raised £7 million total before $100M revenue scale
“We raised at the time seven million GBP.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 6:45 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
Assertion Supported
Beckor: LifeWorks was acquired for $325 million
“We sold for three, three twenty-five million.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 8:06 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Beckor: Uptime Reached 100,000 Signups in First 100 Days
“Within the first hundred days of launching, we did a hundred, we got a 100,000 signups.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 14:06 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Beckor: Uptime Has Several Thousand Paying Subscribers
“Oh, I it's, we've got several thousand people who've subscribed.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 16:27 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
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