Hiring a high-agency, high-taste growth operator at @atlascardhq
$1B+ in volume, zero paid acquisition. Backed by @eladgil@gokulr@ycombinator@dickc and many other incredible investors
If you're interested DM me and here is a link to the role - https://t.co/FxHqbPyiva
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
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💻 Le code est ouvert et accessible sur GitHub :
https://t.co/AmY04V22TH
Pour en savoir plus : https://t.co/V7UJrc6uUq
Earlier this year I onboarded someone with two assistants, a $50K a year concierge, and Amex Centurion. He was super skeptical and didn’t join for a few weeks.
In his first week on Atlas, one text got him the res he’d been striking out on for months. A few days later he canceled the $50K concierge, cut an assistant, and admitted we replaced a setup that was draining tens of thousands a year and wasting hours of time.
Since then he’s referred us half his network. Sometimes things aren’t “too good to be true.” The bar is just insanely low.
FinTech was “dead.” Now we have:
@Ramp at $32B
@Robinhood from $6B to $100B+ market cap
@Dave from ~$100M to ~$3B market cap
@atlascardhq rebuilt from Point. Tracking toward $1B+ TPV (with 0 marketing). And serving the highest-spenders on earth with a ~25-person team that’s shipped an AI concierge, the 1st Visa Infinite Biz Card, a global travel agency, and restaurant access nobody else has… all in the last ~ 12 mo.
Bullish on the ecosystem
ATLAS IN THE INFORMATION 50
At @MarathonMP , we partner with and support a small number of incredible entrepreneurs at the early stage. Entrepreneurs who build remarkable products and teams, entrepreneurs who are obsessed with their customer and with defining their categories.
One of those special entrepreneurs is @patrickmro . With @atlascardhq , Patrick and team have built an incredible product and business, one that's grown many-fold over the past year. Most interestingly, this growth has been achieved with zero ad budget, entirely through word of mouth, and with a net dollar retention better than 99% of B2B companies we've ever seen. This kind of product-led expansion driven by genuine customer love is exactly what the best companies exhibit.
Awards are a lagging indicator of (and not correlated with) success, but they still offer a good reason to pause, take a beat, reflect, and feel re-energized for the journey ahead. On that note, huge congrats to Patrick, Kenan Pulak, Sid Parihar, and the Atlas team for joining @theinformation 50, which recognizes the most promising 50 startups in technology.
While this recognition reflects what Atlas has accomplished so far, we are more excited about the category-defining potential ahead, and couldn't be more excited to continue supporting this exceptional team. Let's go!
Proud to see @MarathonMP portfolio company @atlascardhq on the Future 50, which is fast becoming a prescient window into greatness.
Some quotes about Atlas from the article:
"How does one secure a spot at The Corner Store? Or a table at Cotogna? What should one do to get court side tickets to the US Open? Increasingly, the answer may be Atlas Card."
"Atlas is building an AI-powered concierge that unlocks access to hot dining spots, luxury hotels and VIP events."
"Though Atlas prefers to keep a low profile, its momentum is hard to ignore. The startup is logging hundreds of millions in spending and eight figure revenue."
Congrats @patrickmro and team Atlas!
THE METRICS BEHIND AN EXTRAORDINARY COMPANY
At the core, every extraordinary business does two things incredibly well.
First, they efficiently acquire customers. Exceptional businesses are exceptional customer acquisition machines with low payback periods, enabling them to grow rapidly by scaling new customers month over month , quarter over quarter. Ideally, a large percentage of newly acquired customers is through organic (unpaid) channels, acquired through word of mouth and fueled by customer love.
Second, they strongly retain and grow acquired customers. Once a great business acquires a cohort of customers, they don’t just retain them (high gross customer retention) but grow their spend (> 100% net revenue retention). This is due to an incredible product + customer experience, which lead customers to use it as an increasing part of their life and work.
Atlas is an AI concierge that we at Marathon Management Partners are lucky to be investors in. Atlas is a company that exemplifies the two attributes of extraordinary companies.
-- Acquisition: Their customer acquisition is highly efficient, driven almost entirely by word of mouth. They do zero paid marketing.
-- Retention: Their net TPV retention is significantly higher than 100%, in fact it’s better than 99.9% of B2B companies. As customers use the product, they increasingly spend more each successive month.
The graph below shows Atlas TPV growth over the past 24 months.
tl;dr Super efficient acquisition + >100% TPV retention = Hockey stick growth.
Your Amex gets you into a lounge that smells like buffet eggs.
@atlascardhq gets you 8pm tables at Cotogna and The Corner Store, upgrades at Aman, a backup jet when your G650’s in the shop—and tickets to sold-out games.
It’s the card + concierge for people who own planes. Just text us for tables, hotels, jets, whatever.
Oh—and it won’t decline during a Loro Piana splurge like your Apple Card. DM me and I’ll get you set up.