Ente Opens Its Books: Revenue, Customers, and Accounts Revealed
Ente – Opening Our Books
We just made our business metrics public, sharing our revenue, customer count, and total accounts with the world. At Ente, we believe in total transparency to build trust with our community. This open approach allows everyone to see exactly how our privacy-focused platform is growing and operating.
We just made our business metrics public - revenue, customers, and accounts, all out in the open.
- speak_plainly
Kinda unrelated, but the art direction on Ente's site is really top-notch.
- adityamwagh
Happy to be one of those people contributing those numbers! :) It's a great privacy friendly service.
- alberth
Buffer.com is famously open as well, if you like this kind of stuff.
Revenue: https://buffer.com/metrics
Expenses: https://buffer.com/transparent-pricing
Salaries of every employee (which seems like PII to me): https://buffer.com/salaries
And more: https://buffer.com/open
- Cider9986
Are there any other self-hostable E2EE cloud products as good as Ente? This company is great. AGPL as well.
- gortok
This is one of those vanity blog posts, a “look at us, we’re open” blog posts without actual openness, or rather, limited openness where it helps their image and not openness that could backfire.
Businesses don’t operate based on revenue. They operate based on profit. They operate based on operating expenses. They operate based off of free cash flow. Showing off revenue and number of accounts is showing off a tiny portion of the picture, and says nothing about the health of a business.
If you’re looking to ‘be open’ about the health of your business, then the operating costs would be shared, the amount the founders are ‘taking out’ of the business in dividends would be shared.
There are businesses that operate 20MM a year in revenue, but practically speaking are broke, because of the way the business is being run.
So for folks that don’t know better, this is a very cool thing ente is doing. For folks that run businesses and know better, this is a way to show off and ‘gain cred’ without actually having to be open about how the business operates.
- pseufaux
I have been impressed with Ente products and customer service. It's good to see they are growing. That said, revenue information is not entirely helpful in a vacuum. I'd be more keen on seeing profit (even at a lower timeline resolution). What's the average cost for taking on a new customer? What's the retention/turnover? Etc. That said the products are great and I'd recommend them to anyone.
- adithyassekhar
A lot of confusion about what services this company offers and I don’t blame them.
I am a happy user of “ente auth” ever since authy killed their desktop app. Bitwarden is too much I just need a 2fa app that is secure enough but not too annoying like remembering a 2nd factor for my 2fa app.
Only today did I remember oh they do photo backups.
Love from KL.
- liampulles
I love the principle of this. I hate the truncated graphs.