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ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Workato achieves at least 50% net revenue expansion from enterprise customers
“It's, you know, it's at least 50%, and it's higher when it goes to larger companies.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Workato sees almost zero churn among its enterprise customers
“Our churn and enterprise customers is basically almost nothing, you know, in smaller businesses. We do see churn, especially when people do integrations, like to kind of do a campaign.”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Tella projected Workato would cross $50M ARR by 2020
“You know, I think, you know, we're looking to do that, do it you know, within the next one to two years.”
Disclosure
Workato's enterprise plans start at $60,000 and scale to seven figures
“That's the starting, the enterprise plans start at 60 K per year. And then, like I said, we have, you know, we have companies that pay us six and seven figures per year. And then we have line of business, which are more departmental purchases that, you know, g…”
Assertion Partly supported
Tella's mobile video app Qik reached 20M users before Skype acquisition
“It was a mobile video application that drew to twenty million users, and it got acquired by Skype in 2011.”
Assertion Supported
Skype paid $150M to acquire Tella's mobile video app Qik
“They paid one fifty million.”
Assertion Supported
Qik raised $15M prior to its $150M Skype acquisition
“We had raised 15.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Workato had 21,000 signed-up organizations adding up to 900 per month
“We have, what, 21,000 organizations that are that have signed up on Workout. About 808 to 900 a month are signing up each month.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tella: Workato offers 225,000 public integration recipes
“So we have, what, 225,000 public recipes on Workado or public integrations that anybody can pick up as a starting point to connect their apps, right?”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
75% of Workato users start building integrations with community recipes
“About 75% of people that are creating integrations on Workado start with one of these community recipes, so that this community-based approach to solving an enterprise problem, you know, directly came out of our experience in the consumer space.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Workato grew its revenue by 300% in 2017
“No, we grew 300% last year in 2017.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Workato recovers its customer acquisition costs within one year
“Yeah, no, that's, you know, within a year.”
Disclosure
Workato raised $17M backed by Salesforce, Workday, and Storm Ventures
“We've raised about seventeen million total, about ten million from ourselves, and about you know, the, you know, the number one and two SaaS companies, Salesforce, and Workday are investors, and so is a longtime Silicon Valley we see, called Storm Ventures.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Workato had 80 employees in 2018 with two-thirds working remotely
“We are around 80 people. Most of us in I mean, not, I mean, the headquarters is in Palo Alto, but about two thirds of the team is remote.”