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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tesla refuses cloud software for data science, requiring on-premise deployments
“Even someone like Tesla won't use a cloud product for their data science teams. They want something completely behind their firewall.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 2:47 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Insight
Plotly's most efficient GTM spend is documentation and content marketing
“For go to market, the most Efficient way that we found to spend that money for our product and industry was just making our content marketing and our documentation really, really, really good.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 7:37 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Assertion Supported
Tesla's data science team uses Plotly for internal graphing
“So, like a good example is the data science team at Tesla uses us.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 2:04 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Disclosure
Plotly's revenue is split evenly between cloud and on-premise
“Interestingly, it's about fifty-fifty.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 4:27 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Disclosure
Plotly raised a $4.5M seed round and $1M in debt
“We raised four and a half million seed and then took on a million in debt.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 6:11 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Plotly is currently cash flow positive
“Well, we're actually cashflow positive.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 7:04 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Disclosure
Plotly has crossed $2 million in overall annual revenue
“Yeah, we've broken two overall.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 10:20 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Plotly has grown its total revenue 1.8x year-over-year
“If you count all of our revenue It's been about 1.8 per year. So we've almost doubled every year. Right. You know, our first year we did basically nothing less than 300,000 dollars.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 10:29 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Disclosure
Plotly maintains a customer acquisition payback period under 60 days
“Definitely under net 60.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 13:17 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Disclosure
Plotly does not do any outbound sales
“So we don't do outbound sales.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 15:02 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Plotly's cloud customer churn is approximately 10% annually
“For, on the cloud side for paying customers, it's about It's a, I think it's about 10% now. Annually.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 15:41 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Disclosure
Plotly CEO Jack Parmer gets at least 10 hours of sleep
“I just, I like to sleep a lot. I get it at 10 hours at least.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 17:05 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Plotly employs 20 full-time staff and 10 open-source contractors
“So we're about 20 full time and then we sort of have a team of about another 10 contractors that mostly work on the open source libraries.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 4:52 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Disclosure
Plotly has spent only $20,000 total experimenting with paid ads
“We probably spent 20 grand total on paid ads, trying different things.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 8:15 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
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