The Future of Subscriptions Looks Brighter Than Ever
Before we relegate 2020 to the past, I’d be remiss if I didn’t highlight one of the major economic trends we saw this year: an explosion in subscription commerce. This...
Dan Burkhart
Dan co-founded Recurly with a deep appreciation for the combination of commerce, marketing, business analytics, and excellent user experience design. Dan brings extensive experience from his background of 20 years in roles spanning internet marketing, product marketing, strategic partnerships, business development, and corporate development for eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and NBC Internet.
While at eBay, Dan led the Global Buyer Engagement team, the eBay Global Affiliate Program, and the eBay Portal and Partner organization where he learned vital lessons about the subscriber experience and subscriber retention. Prior to eBay, Dan was a Sr. Director of Business Development for NBC Internet, where he played a key role in growing the company revenue streams from $20MM to $120MM.
Dan attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School for his undergraduate degree in economics and received his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children. Outside of the office, Dan enjoys being a dad and taking full advantage of the many benefits of living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Thousands of innovative companies across digital media, streaming, publishing, SaaS, education, consumer goods, and professional services industries rely on the subscription management expertise at Recurly to unlock transformational growth using the subscription model to develop long-term customer relationships thanks to vital subscription performance metrics.
Recurly’s all-in-one, integrated billing platform removes the complexities of automating subscription billing at scale by enabling teams to manage and optimize a seamless subscriber journey with ease. Category-defining subscription companies including Sling, Twitch, BarkBox, FabFitFun, Paramount, Lucid, and Sprout Social have chosen Recurly to manage billions of dollars in credit card payments for recurring revenues, future-proof their recurring billing and payment operations, and curb subscriber retention and win back millions of dollars in revenue recovery. Founded in 2009, Recurly is based in San Francisco, with offices in Boulder, New Orleans, and London. For more information, visit https://recurly.com.
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