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Holmes: Founders sleeping 2 to 3 hours is an unhealthy myth
“I don't believe in the myth of CEOs that don't sleep. I think CEOs that don't sleep die and die early, and so I believe in the power of sleep. I think that sleep is when you heal. I think sleep is when your mind recharges, and I believe in getting, you know, a…”
Holmes: Aspiring founders should do services work to find billion-dollar problems
“Agency is an incredible place. I, when I talk to young entrepreneurs that are, you know, they feel like I want to do a business. I don't know what it is. You know, I often will tell them, you know, go do services work for a while. Somebody is going to bring yo…”
Holmes: Hootsuite generates 30,000 self-serve signups per day
“All of our leads are generated through our freemium signups, our pro signups, our self-serve signups. They come in through those channels. So we get, you know, 30,000 signups a day.”
Hootsuite is cashflow positive with no pressure to IPO
“We've built a company that's cashflow positive, and therefore there aren't any pressing forces for us.”
Holmes: Hootsuite customer contracts range from tens of dollars to millions
“We have teams of tens of thousands using our product on a daily basis to, Help connect with their customers, and so the model matures, so we go from tens of dollars to millions of dollars in terms of the spectrum of our customers.”
Hootsuite self-serve LTV is hundreds; enterprise averages tens of thousands in ARR
“So I'm going to have to, you know, it's in the hundreds of dollars for LTV. And, you know, on the enterprise side you know, it's tens of thousands of dollars in terms of annual recurring and you know, just in, in kind of general numbers.”
Holmes: Hootsuite has raised north of $200 million to date
“Yeah, to date I, you know, it's north of 200.”
Holmes: Much of Hootsuite's funding went toward secondary liquidity for early investors
“A big chunk of the fundraising that we did do was for secondary liquidity for early investors.”
Holmes: Hootsuite has over 200 app directory partners and millions of installs
“We've got over 200, ah, different partners built out in our app directory so far. We have millions of installations of apps in our app directory.”
Holmes: App installations and API integrations directly increase customer retention
“Every time we see an app install or an API integration, we know that that customer is more likely to stay with us because we're more connected, more meshed into their overall marketing and customer support stack.”
Holmes: Hootsuite has customer deployments of up to 10,000 seats
“I mean, the law of large numbers, some of the big enterprises obviously take out, we have 10,000 seat deployments.”
Holmes: Every Hootsuite team member is a company shareholder
“Everybody's a shareholder in the business, so you know, any offer we have to consider”