Ben Congleton

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VC-Backed SaaS Competitors Must Hike Prices to Justify Valuations
“And I think also like, I'm not trying to maximize overall enterprise value. I think those guys have maximized overall enterprise value. They need that because they need to drive cost up significantly to justify their valuation, which I don't need to do.”
Ben Congleton Jul 31, 2019 ▶ 19:13 1467 Olark Founded 2007, $14.4M+ in ARR, So Why Did New Live Chat Players Get All The Love?
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Olark Pays Executive Candidates to Complete Interview Homework Assignments
“We actually did something pretty interesting where we paid people to do homework. So we gave them a bunch of stats that were kind of made up numbers, but pretty close to our real numbers and said like, hey give us like what opportunities you see, what assumpti…”
Ben Congleton Jul 31, 2019 ▶ 11:33 1467 Olark Founded 2007, $14.4M+ in ARR, So Why Did New Live Chat Players Get All The Love?
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted
Olark Created the First Floating Website Chat Box Widget
“And then over time because we are the first people who put this little floating chat box on the internet that created some virality. So like, you know, someone adds this to the site they see it's Olark and then they want it for their own site. Nowadays, that s…”
Ben Congleton Jul 31, 2019 ▶ 7:43 1467 Olark Founded 2007, $14.4M+ in ARR, So Why Did New Live Chat Players Get All The Love?
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Olark Passed 12,000 Customers at Its Last Public Milestone
“The public number I use is like over 12 K.”
Ben Congleton Jul 31, 2019 ▶ 5:52 1467 Olark Founded 2007, $14.4M+ in ARR, So Why Did New Live Chat Players Get All The Love?
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Olark Raised Only $85,000 in Total Outside Capital
“Well, we raised 85 K total, so you can figure out whether that's bootstrapped or not, but I think for any modern company, that's nothing.”
Ben Congleton Jul 31, 2019 ▶ 4:06 1467 Olark Founded 2007, $14.4M+ in ARR, So Why Did New Live Chat Players Get All The Love?

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