Daniel Chait
person on 4 shows · 10 statements across 2 episodes · said 18 times in 15 episodes since 2016
Top Founders 9 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 5 
20VC 3 
the MAD Podcast 1
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Top Founders 9the Official SaaStr Podcast 520VC 3the MAD Podcast 1
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 7 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- 1409 $1.5B Freshworks To IPO: Growing 40% YoY, Passes $100M in ARR, $250M Raised, 150,000 Companies Using
- 1407 Ex Facebook Now Happily Bootstrapping in UX Research Tool Space Past $125k in MRR
- 1405 How ClickDimensions is using Microsoft Ecosytem To Drive to $40m in ARR
- 1402 100% Female Owned, Bootstrapped, Marketing Automation Company for SMB's Passes $85k in MRR
- 1398 How Limelight Is Shifting to More SaaS Revenue, $5m Currently
- 1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine
- 1394 How he used affiliates to go from Zero to $50k in MRR in 16 Months
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2018 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
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Chait: Diversity hiring issues stem from downstream processes, not candidate pipelines
“One of the insights that we had from the research was that most people sort of offhandedly perceive diversity is a top of funnel problem. They say, oh, there's not enough women engineers out there. Well, it turns out that's not necessarily always the case. Oft…”
Chait: Hiring is a six-figure bet made with shockingly little data
“Every time you make a hire, you're basically placing a six figure annual bet on that person. And I can't think of another place in any organization where you make as big of a decision with as much financial impact with as little information as when most compan…”
Chait: Heads of D&I are generally not software buyers
“They may have a head of D and I but that person is generally not in the business of buying software.”
Chait: Greenhouse's entire 2012 revenue was $50 from a General Assembly class.
“We launched a product in 2013. So 2012 revenue was about 50 dollars, and that was because we did a, I taught a class at General Assembly called How to Make Hiring Strength of Your Company, and the first revenue ever into Greenhouse was actually a you know, an …”
Chait: Greenhouse reached $1M in revenue in its first product year.
“So, in the end of the year, I think we probably got to a million bucks that year.”
Chait: Greenhouse raised $60M total through Series C round
“We've raised a total of about sixty million dollars through our series C round.”
Chait: M&A, closures, and hiring halts drive most Greenhouse churn
“By far, the biggest cause of churn for us, and it always has been since we started, was like, we say like marriage, death, and divorce, right?”
Chait: Greenhouse averages a 97% customer renewal rate
“I would say on average, 97% of our customers are.”
Chait: Pitching VCs generated early customers through their portfolio company introductions.
“Raising money. Absolutely. You're a great way to acquire customers. Cause you go pitch VCs and they're like, I don't know what your product does or if anyone likes it. So they go, Hey, could I introduce you to some of our portfolio and see if they like it? Lik…”
Chait: Greenhouse converted General Assembly hiring students into early product customers.
“I taught this class, I ended up doing it for two years. Through General Assembly, we did, you know, hundreds of students came through and took my hiring class, and sure enough, when we had a product available, we kind of said, hey, you took my class, didn't kn…”