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Boufarhat: Hopin will likely be the fastest-growing company in the world
“Whereas with Hopin, I always said, we're probably going to be the fastest growing company in the world when we decide to push out, because we saw the viral effect.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boufarhat: Hopin reached $1.8M ARR within three weeks of public access
“And you know, it's been hard to manage it, but in that time, in about three weeks, where I think we're at now, 1.8 million ARR from the car. I mean, I, when I filled in the form with you, it was one.”
Opinion
Boufarhat: Hopin's pandemic-driven hypergrowth numbers are not sustainable
“None of the numbers that are happening right now in our product are sustainable.”
Disclosure
Boufarhat: Hopin raised a $7M round from Accel
“We raised a five million pounds around seven million dollars.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boufarhat: Hopin's fundraise began in December 2019, before the pandemic
“No, there was nothing. There was, the virus hadn't hit yet. I mean, the process began in December.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boufarhat: Hopin hit nearly 180,000 waitlist signups and onboarded 2,000 users
“We have this waitlist now close to a 180,000 and we've probably onboarded about 2000 of it.”
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Boufarhat: 10% of Hopin beta event attendees converted into prospective users
“About a 1800 people would show up to a private, one of our early access or really deep early access events. And we were noticing that about 10% of people would go in and try and fill a form would fill the form.”
Opinion
Boufarhat: Online events have 10x stronger viral acquisition funnels than Eventbrite
“I think online events like the ones we're creating has, have any way more than about 10 X, 20 X.”
Disclosure
Boufarhat: Hopin's monthly revenue churn was around 11% in May 2020
“I saw the numbers actually yesterday and it looked like it was around it was around 11%.”
Opinion
Boufarhat: Legacy virtual events have existed 12 years and historically suck
“You know, there's been virtual events have existed for 12 years, kind of always sucks.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boufarhat: Hopin reached nearly 1,200 paying customers by May 2020
“I think close to 1200 now.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boufarhat: 95% of Hopin's waitlist signups are prospective event organizers
“Well, it asks you if you want to be an organizer or not, and so most of them select organizers, so it, it's about 95% organizer.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boufarhat: Hopin receives around 1,000 inbound website leads daily
“I mean, I'm gonna have to take a look at this, but I think the number is close to the HubSpot form, sorry, the website form gets a lot you know, over a thousand, whereas the around a thousand a day, and the type form gets about 130 to 180 a day.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boufarhat: Hopin built an 80,000-person waitlist in nine months before COVID
“The waitlist side before COVID was around 80,000, and that was over nine months.”
Disclosure
Boufarhat: Hopin's gross burn rate is close to $400,000 per month
“We're currently burning close to 400,000.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boufarhat: Hopin achieves early hypergrowth without running any paid advertisements
“We're not running any ads.”