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Insight
Clément: Founders should enter crowded spaces because competition proves market demand
“I'm actually on the team that says if it's crowded space, you should go because it means, you know, there is a, there is demand.”
Disclosure
Husband-and-wife co-founders maintain an exact 50/50 equity split
“Well, we are exactly on part. Fifty-fifty.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Loomly operates profitably while maintaining 100% year-over-year growth
“We're good on both fronts. We are good on growth. We are good on, on profits. So we have found like the right balance for us. The board is on board.”
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Clément: Loomly conservatively forecasts 100% annual growth and could exceed it
“You know, the hundred percent growth rate is, is our conservative you know, forecast. We feel like we can do better than data as we keep improving the product and then the KPI can also improve.”
Disclosure
Clément: Loomly's four-person board maintains uneven voting power
“It's not because there are, there's an even number that people that we have an even number of voices or votes.”
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Clément: Loomly customers pay an average of $50 per month
“50 bucks on average.”
Disclosure
Clément: Loomly was bootstrapped using marketing agency cash flow
“So I wrote the first line of code in August, 2015. And, you know, we only incorporated what is now Loomly in July, 2016. So during that entire time, we were kind of working by day on the agency. And then, you know, with whatever money we were making, we were k…”
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Loomly serves over 7,000 paying customers and is approaching 8,000
“Over 7000, actually going to 8000.”
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Clément: Loomly grew ARR 100% in 2020 to reach $4M to $5M
“We are between four and five, and last year, you know, I mean, we are already in twenty-twenty-one. So I would say end of twenty-nineteen, we were at around two million dollar in AR. So we grew a hundred percent in twenty-twenty.”
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Thibaut Clément: Loomly maintains an LTV to CAC ratio well above 3x
“We are well about the famous LTV over CAC ratio of three.”
Assertion Supported
Clément: Loomly has raised slightly over $3M in equity
“A bit above three million dollars in equity.”
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Loomly experiences monthly churn at the lower end of 3% to 7%
“It's on the lower end of the benchmark for which, you know, is between three and seven percent for reference. So we are on the lower end of that.”
Disclosure
Loomly reached $4M ARR with a team of just seven employees
“No, we are seven. There are, I kind of oversee the product, and there are three engineers with me, and then Noemi kind of oversees everything on the marketing side, and there are two customer success managers with her, and we are kind of, we are currently open…”
Assertion Supported
Clément: Loomly raised multiple rounds between 2016 and 2019 from identical investors
“No, it was a couple of rounds. And it was, you know, between 2016 and 2019 all with the same investors.”
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Loomly's highest-paying customer pays around $20,000 per year
“Something in the, like the range of 20,000 per year.”