TikTok 'Ban' Bill Signed into Law: What It Means for Buffer and How Creators & Marketers Can Prepare
TikTok's parent company must divest the app or face a ban in the U.S. Here's everything we know, plus how to plan ahead.
Open metrics
A transparent company since 2010
Since 2013, we’ve been open with Buffer’s finances and our team’s salaries, among many other metrics. We share openly because we believe in the power of transparency to build trust, hold us accountable to a high standard, and push our industry forward.
This is a dashboard for anyone to see how we’re building Buffer.
- MAUMonthly Active Users
- 180,056
- MRRMonthly Recurring Revenue
- $1.7M
- ARPUAverage Revenue Per User
- $27.88
- ARRAnnual Recurring Revenue
- $20.0M
- CEO Salary
- $298,958
- Average Salary
- $154,064
Random employee salaries
- KarinnaTechnical Advocate
- $116,865
- Joe DSoftware Engineer
- $185,320
- KateMarketing UX Designer
- $115,864
- DarcyCustomer Advocate Manager
- $134,314
- RafEngineering Manager
- $175,888
- ArekSoftware Engineer
- $166,788
2010
2011
AugustBuffer was accepted into AngelPad startup accelerator, with initial $120,000 investment
DecemberBuffer raised a small seed round of $330,000, to bring total funding to $450,000
Read more about Buffer in december 20112012
JanuaryOur founders had visa troubles and started traveling while growing Buffer, the team grew to 7 people by August
Read more about Buffer in january 20122013
AugustBuffer’s first all-company retreat took place in Lake Tahoe
Read more about Buffer in august 20132014
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2016
JuneWe had a cash-flow crisis resulting in several financial changes at Buffer, including a round of lay offs
Read more about Buffer in june 20162018
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- Customer satisfaction in the last 90 days
- Customer emails solved in the last quarter
We’re Sunsetting Pablo, Remix, and Stories Creator
Nine years ago, we decided to launch a new free product alongside Buffer. We called it Pablo, and it was a huge hit in our community. Within just seven months of its launch, half a million photos were created using Pablo. Similarly, we had the initial ideas for Stories Creator and Remix many years ago now. All three of these tools have been an important part of Buffer’s story. They’ve taught us lessons and helped us connect with a wider audience. In Pablo’s case, the idea for this tool happene
Buffer’s Recent Performance and What Our Team Has Been Doing About It
If you use Buffer, you might have experienced us having more downtime than usual recently. We want to start with an apology for not sharing more transparently along the way what’s been happening. We’ve been caught up in the work and haven’t invested enough in communicating with our community, and we’re so sorry about this misstep. We know some of our customers have had a frustrating time using Buffer recently and we need to do better by you. This past August and September were the months we’ve
How We're Preventing Breaking Changes in GraphQL APIs at Buffer — and Why It's Essential for Our Customers
As part of our commitment to transparency and building in public, Buffer engineer Joe Birch shares how we’re doing this for our own GraphQL API via the use of GitHub Actions.