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Collin: Front has always maintained net negative revenue churn
“But then our revenue churn has always been negative. Because we have a model where we have to lend and expand. Yeah, exactly. In new teams. And so that's always higher than the downsells.”
Collin: 100% of acquired email startups get shut down
“But also a hundred percent of those companies who have been acquired shut down.”
Collin: Front still holds 80% of Series A capital one year after raising
“We raised exactly a year ago and we still have 80% of what we've raised.”
Collin: Front maintains a negative 10 percent monthly net revenue churn
“So we track net churn, and it's always been negative, and so it's remained negative and. How negative? Minus 10%.
Annually?
Monthly.”
Collin: Cisco uses Front across teams of hundreds of people
“We have so we have companies of two users, and then we have companies as big as Cisco using the product and so teams of hundreds of people.”
Collin: Front can become default business email client within 10 years
“Our mission is to reinvent email for companies and to be the default business email client. It's very ambitious, and I think it would take a hundred years without funding to achieve that, and hopefully just 10 years with funding to achieve that.”
Collin: Fast core feature changes are Front's top churn driver
“And so number one would be people that dislikes how fast we've changed core features.”
Collin: Front doubled headcount to 40 and tripled revenue in 11 months
“So I think, so we doubled the team. We're 40 now. We tripled our revenues.”
Collin: Front sees 3.5 to 4 percent monthly customer logo churn
“We track user churn, and that's always been around three and a half, four percent. Monthly. So number of customers divided by, the churn divided by number of total customers.”
Collin: Over one-third of Front's growth comes from existing account expansion
“I think over a third of our growth net of churn is coming from existing customers that have either new plans or just adding new teams.”
Collin: HubSpot expanded from one to 15 teams using Front
“HubSpot started with one team on front, their customer success team, and now they have about, I don't know, 14, 15 teams on front.”
Collin: Historically, 95 percent of Front customers close within three weeks
“Historically, 95% of our customers close in three weeks.”
Collin: Front reached $2M in revenue after two years
“And so we make two millions in revenues after two years.”
Collin: Front spent only one-third of seed round before Series A
“And we had spent a third of what we had raised during our seed. So we had plenty of money left.”
Collin: Front moved its entire team from France to San Francisco
“We moved everyone from France to San Francisco.”
Collin: Front burns roughly $100K-plus in cash per month
“I'd have to check probably a hundred something.”
Collin: Front has 3% monthly gross customer churn
“So we know that our user churn is three percent monthly.”
Collin: MailChimp expanded from one team to ten on Front
“So as an example, MailChimp started to use the product when we launched two years ago with our partnerships team that had a partnerships at address with lots of incoming inquiries. And today they have 10 different teams using the product, and that's mainly how…”