Lempire

“The best way for me, it's like pick up your phone, like just call people. And if they don't answer call again and again, until you get to a point and it's fine, you know, like it's your right.”

“So the company was worth hundred and fifty million. I took a founder left and we each took like ten million. So now I own about like 70% of the business. I cashed out ten million dollar personally. And I'm like the solo founder left since around like four year…”

“We had the highest churn. We lost yeah, I think the churn that month was close to like 50%.”

“I wasn't good enough at hiring at the time for me to be able to handle like a fundraising.”

“We, I mean, with Lempire, I also cashed out thirty million dollars, so made money along the way, et cetera.”

“But a month and a half later, when I look back at the activation with the new product and the new design and the new UX story, we were actually from 10%, we went to close to like 45%”

“So when a sales team has more than four people, we realized that the net retention was over a hundred percent monthly. Whereas when it's like a founder or a marketer, or like the first employee of a startup, the churn can be up to like 15%. Monthly.”

“This is kind of, actually, you come at a moment where this is a transition phase for me, but yeah.”

“Because I hired someone who's like extremely talented and skilled at that role for 18 months now, I feel like this is a time for him to have that role because he's definitely better than me.”

“We're, we've been, like, fully bootstrapped. So we will end up the year close to, like, twenty nine million in ARR with ten million in EBDA.”

“Right now, like, just to give you an example, we reach about like, ten million people every quarter on LinkedIn without spending a single dollar on ads, just through like our networks. And that's like That's like millions of dollars in revenue every year.”

“At the time, I think we were on like 13 or fourteen million in annual recurring revenue.”

“Putting yourself out there and creating content. Will help your business a hundred percent. It will help your business because it will help you build trust with more trust. It means slower sales, like faster sales cycle more leads and more revenue down the lin…”