Disco
company on 3 shows · 13 statements across 3 episodes · said 21 times in 3 episodes since 2020
Top Founders 20 
Big Technology 1 
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Zapier-owned MakerPad uses Disco to power its entire learning community
“Really big now organizations are using us, like MakerPad, which is the largest no-code school. It's owned by Zapier. We are the OS for their entire learning community”
Dribbble uses Disco as the operating system for Dribbble University
“Dribbble, the world's, you know, one of the world's biggest product design communities, they're using Disco to be the OS for their entire Dribbble University”
Disco raised a $5M seed round with Shopify and Solana angels
“In our last round we raised five million US and we have incredible angels as well. Lots of interesting folks from Shopify Lambda School, Solana, Endeavor, very interesting people who are participating.”
Disco's $750k pre-seed was backed by Wattpad executives
“That was just a friends and family, 750 K... I have Ivan as an investor. Huge fan of the Wattpad team. Also like the head of product, Tarun Secdeva as an investor.”
Disco's seed round was 3x oversubscribed with $15M in investor interest
“We were three times oversubscribed for that round. We had, you know, fifteen million of interest.”
Disco co-founders Candice Faktor and Chris Sukornyk split equity 50/50
“No, a hundred percent. Fifty-fifty all the way.”
The majority of active creators on Disco generate ticket sales
“Some have no sales, but the majority do. The majority.”
Top Disco creators are on track to generate $1M+ in 2022
“We have some creators that are on track to do seven figures this year.”
Between 30% and 50% of Disco customers pay for SaaS subscriptions
“I would say it's about like in the range of between 30 to 50%.”
Disco's platform replaces complex integrations of Hopin, Slack, and curriculum tools
“It's actually quite complex for people to sort of piece together a hop in with a slack with a, you know, curriculum tool. And so we just make it super simple in one place.”
Slack prioritizes its portfolio company Disco on its app directory
“It's like, it's a disco, disco bot grow bot previously. So they were, they are in essentials. They are on the front page. We cannot, like, ask, we, I asked actually, it's like, to put karma next to them, but it was counterintuitive. They invested money in this…”