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Ambassador raised prices quarterly for five years without losing any customers
“We raised our prices every quarter for almost five years, and we didn't lose customers.”
Assertion Supported
Jeff Epstein's Ambassador raised under $3 million in total funding
“We actually only, we raised under three million.”
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Jeff Epstein's Ambassador generated around $8 million in revenue when sold
“I think when we sold, we were around eight.”
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Epstein: Ambassador's average customer pays about $2,000 per month
“Average customers paying us about 2000 per month.”
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Epstein: Ambassador generates well over $3M in ARR
“We obviously do way more than three million dollars a year.”
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Epstein: Most Detroit Companies Do Not Offer Stock Options
“Most companies, In our area don't give equity or stock options, right?”
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Epstein: Ambassador Experiences Low Single-Digit Monthly Gross Revenue Churn
“We're in the low, you know, low single digits per month.”
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Epstein: Ambassador's Customer Lifetime Value Exceeds $50,000
“I mean, we're north of 50,000 now in terms of lifetime value, which is pretty great.”
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Epstein: Ambassador generated about $3.5 million in revenue in 2015
“So it was about three and a half million dollars.”
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Epstein: Ambassador reached an annualized run rate around $3.8M–$4M
“Yeah, so run rate was about probably just under 3.84 million roughly.”
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Epstein: Ambassador achieves ~85% retention and under 2% monthly net dollar churn
“We don't measure it annually, but it's probably, our retention is probably close to 85%, 85%, which is which is maybe 10% churn. I mean, there's a couple different ways to measure it, but we also look at, you know, net dollar churn as well, so that, that's und…”
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Epstein: Ambassador closes about 5% of product demos
“And we know that demos will close at, or, you know, at you know, five percent.”
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Jeff Epstein sold Ambassador on a revenue multiple, not EBITDA
“It was definitely multiple revenue, you know, instead of like an EBITDA multiple.”
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Jeff Epstein's Onboard.io had not reached $10,000 in MRR by April 2021
“No, not yet.”
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Epstein: Ambassador's freemium launch resulted in 600 users who never paid
“I had this idea that we would be freemium, and Dropbox was like the most popular software out. We wanted to be freemium. I think the story I tell is we had 600 customers not pay us. 600 customers didn't pay.”