why aren't all 14 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
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.”
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.”
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.”
Disclosure
Plotly's revenue is split evenly between cloud and on-premise
“Interestingly, it's about fifty-fifty.”
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.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Plotly is currently cash flow positive
“Well, we're actually cashflow positive.”
Disclosure
Plotly has crossed $2 million in overall annual revenue
“Yeah, we've broken two overall.”
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.”
Disclosure
Plotly maintains a customer acquisition payback period under 60 days
“Definitely under net 60.”
Disclosure
Plotly does not do any outbound sales
“So we don't do outbound sales.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Disclosure
Plotly has spent only $20,000 total experimenting with paid ads
“We probably spent 20 grand total on paid ads, trying different things.”