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Insight
TK Aida: Sales reps should match customer speech pacing within 10%
“Pacing means you're supposed to talk plus -10% of the customer because there's a strong correlation between brain speed and speech rate. So if you speak too fast, the customer can understand. And if you speak too slowly, customer is going to get bored.”
Assertion Supported
RevComm CEO: Gong costs $100 to $140 per user monthly
“And gone, cost you know, hundred to 140 bucks, so.”
Insight
Aida: Early-Stage Founders Must Hire Architecture Engineers First
“And so what early stage founder should find is the architecture engineer who are strong at architecture engineer. Because if the architecture is not well architected, then you have to rebuild in at some point.”
Insight
Aida: Non-Technical Founders Usually Chase Application Engineers by Mistake
“Usually business person seeking the application engineer because application engineer is very, very you know, well-known. So the engineer who made this service, right.”
Disclosure
Aida Hired RevCom's First Lead Engineer for $5K Monthly and <5% Equity
“So at first I paid them only, you know, 5000 bucks a month. Yeah. Plus salary plus stock option, right? Yeah, on the five percent equity.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Aida: RevCom can reach over $40M revenue run-rate this year
“Yeah, I think it's doable in, in terms of we are expanding, you know, our you know, market, not only Japan, but also Indonesia will be in the US.”
Disclosure
RevComm CEO: Japanese enterprise clients pay $140 per seat monthly
“But in Japan enterprise customer pays us usually like, you know, 140 bucks per month per ID, including, you know, cold charge and mobile app you know, Options, and also storage options, you know so, 69 bucks it includes two months of recording you know, storag…”
Disclosure
Aida: 90% of his equity is owned by his foundations
“Most of the share is owned by you know, my foundation. It's called the Think Act Foundation and Takeshi Aida Foundation. So 90% of my share is owned by that foundation.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Aida: RevCom has reached 1,600 customer companies
“We have company, number of company is 1600.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Aida: RevCom average revenue per account exceeds $1,000 monthly
“Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean, average APA, average revenue account is more than a thousand bucks, so.”
Disclosure
Aida: RevCom saw $50M in Series A interest before taking $15M
“I'd like to you know, raise approximately ten million, but you know, for the ten million call 50,000,005 zero million has, you know, knock knock us. So I have to arrange you know, who to welcome, and then end up with one five million.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Aida: RevCom was at roughly $200K MRR in 2020
“It was like approximately 200 K MRR.”
Disclosure
Aida: RevCom does not need to raise more capital
“We don't have to raise money. We are still a capital efficient, so.”
Disclosure
Aida: Only 20% of RevCom sales reps hit their $1M quota
“Only 20%.”
Disclosure
Aida: RevCom net dollar retention is between 100% and 140%
“It's over a hundred percent. It's in between a hundred to a 150. Yeah. ... It's less than one 40.”
Disclosure
Aida: RevCom employs approximately 200 full-time staff
“200 people, approximately.”