The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 11 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: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jensen: Solo SEO scales to over 200,000 active customers
“We've, we're now over 200,000 active customers.”
Michael Jensen Aug 17, 2018 ▶ 4:01 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jensen: Web hosting channel partners prohibit software providers from upselling customers
“A lot of the hosting companies, they don't want us to upsell the customers cause they're their customers.”
Michael Jensen Aug 17, 2018 ▶ 8:57 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Solo SEO grew only 2% to 5% over the past year
“Well, over the past year, we've grown probably between two and five percent is, is what I would say.”
Michael Jensen Aug 17, 2018 ▶ 14:28 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jensen: Most Solo SEO customer growth comes from hosting partnerships
“Most of that comes with partnering with hosting companies but we do do a lot of direct customers as well.”
Michael Jensen Aug 17, 2018 ▶ 4:15 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jensen: Solo SEO operates with around 12 total employees
“We're about we only have about 12 employees total.”
Michael Jensen Aug 17, 2018 ▶ 4:53 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jensen: Solo SEO landed EIG distribution via Bluehost founder Danny Ashworth
“The first one that we landed was with so one of my business partners is Danny Ashworth, and he was, he started Bluehost itself, and then Bluehost got bought out, and so the company that bought them out, that was our first hosting company that we were in.”
Michael Jensen Aug 17, 2018 ▶ 6:12 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
Assertion Supported
Jensen: Solo SEO is integrated into EIG's registration checkout flow
“So we're in their in their reg flow. So so that, that scales well for us because that's, you know, right where people are signing up.”
Michael Jensen Aug 17, 2018 ▶ 7:45 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
Disclosure
Jensen: Solo SEO uses roughly 50-50 revenue splits with hosting partners
“We, we've done mostly fifty-fifty or even 60 or forty-sixty.”
Michael Jensen Aug 17, 2018 ▶ 8:52 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
Assertion Supported
Jensen: Solo SEO has been bootstrapped from the start
“We bootstrapped it from the start.”
Michael Jensen Aug 17, 2018 ▶ 10:46 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Solo SEO channel partner renewal rate is between 65% and 70%
“So we, for, in terms of renewals, we're somewhere around 65 and 70% of those renewals, and so they stick around.”
Michael Jensen Aug 17, 2018 ▶ 15:33 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jensen: Solo SEO direct customer renewal rate is 55% to 60%
“The customers that are with us directly, it's usually about 55 to 60%.”
Michael Jensen Aug 17, 2018 ▶ 15:54 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 2,600 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.