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Opinion
Tan: Making Over $1M on Startup Equity Typically Requires Facebook-Scale Outcome
“You know, typically to make more than a million dollars at any company, it would require kind of a Facebook size outcome.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 3:59 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
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Tan: Sift Science customers pay thousands up to $100,000 monthly
“Oh, it's probably going to be a in the minimum of a few thousand dollars per month. We have some customers paying us a 100,000 dollars per month.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 2:32 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
Assertion Supported
Tan: Max Levchin personally invested $1M to lead Sift Science seed round
“He wanted to lead our seed round. So he put a million dollars of his own money in and we raised a total of 1.6 million dollars back in September of 2001.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 6:35 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
Assertion Supported
Tan: Sift Science has raised approximately $54 million in total funding
“Oh, we raised about fifty four million dollars.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 6:52 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
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Tan: Sift Science has approximately 500 paying customers
“We have, we're lucky to have quite a few just about 500”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 6:58 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
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Sift Science has more than doubled revenue annually for past few years
“We've been more than doubling our revenue for the last few years.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 8:36 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
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Tan: Sift Science maintains an LTV to CAC ratio over 3:1
“I think that our LTVCAC is more than three to one.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 10:51 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
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Tan: Sift Science achieves CAC payback in under 18 months
“I mean, ours is sub 18 months.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 11:11 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
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Tan: Sift Science revenue churn is under 1%
“Our churn is, our revenue churn is sub one percent.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 12:34 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
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Tan: Sift Science annual logo churn is under 3%
“Oh, I think you're sort of sub-three percent.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 13:21 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
Disclosure
Tan: Sift Science charges per billable transaction or account creation
“In terms of how we make money, we charge per billable event, and that usually ties to a significant transaction or an account created on our customer's website.”
Jason Tan Jan 28, 2018 ▶ 1:51 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
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