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“We had an attack one day where we ended up spending our month's AWS bill in just one day on OpenAI because we had a bot attack happen on us.”

“So we just rushed ten million in ARR, and we're now in the 10 to 25 to 50 journey.”

“So we have about close to one, 50,000 freelancers who've applied to write for Pepper.”

“So, 50% of our user base on the talent marketplace side sits out of the US.”

“We've worked with customers where they've seen massive traffic uptick just on converting the H ones and H twos into interrogative questions.”

“So just for reference, we've done about seven, 50,000 articles till date. There have been months where we've done 30,000 articles a month.”

“It's still doing well, but I'll tell you, it's not sustainable long term. So one has to eventually create that workflow with script writers, and, you know, basically, smarter people have to use these tools.”

“We've created these custom engines, which can produce banner images, add creatives, add skills like 30,000 creatives over the last six months.”

“It took us 20 days to build out a platform called PepperType, which we launched on Product Hunt. We were number one product of the month, and we got to a million, got to a half a million users in one year just for that tool.”

“Since our official launch last year, we've already grown eight X and this year we're making three million in revenue run rate.”

“I'm here today to raise 1.5 million to grow our community and expand even faster with more products.”

“Yes, so we're doing a nine million cap.”

“71%, and this includes the end fulfillment to the customer.”

“Yeah, so overall CAC is 25 dollars, and our lifetime value is 130 dollars, and we expect this lifetime value to go even higher, because right now we only have three products.”

“Well, out of the 1.5 million, we're thinking about doing one million that goes towards paid acquisition. [407] Elizabeth Yin: Oh, wow. [407] Jacqueline Fu: Yeah, and the rest would go towards hiring and inventory.”

“We believe it to be a 5.1 billion dollar market, and the way we got to this is the total lingerie market in the U.S. Is sixteen billion dollars, and around 32% of women fall in the BMI that would be applicable to us.”

“If you start to do well, I'm pretty certain other people will crack the nut. Like, I don't believe this is rocket science, so this is like a first mover hustle advantage”

“So we actually just launched a partnership with Urban Outfitters a few weeks ago. That's been met with really awesome response. They're placing a second purchase order now.”

“So I'd like to make a small investment of 25 K. I obviously have some diligence to do, but I'd love to work with you.”

“The valuation for me is really pricey, to be honest. Like, this is not where we come in with Hustle Fund. For that reason, I'm a pass.”

“Our philosophy is it's not growth at all cost, and that might not be a venture Scale type of business because we might be growing a little bit slower, but for us, it's more important to be profitable.”

“She set out to raise 1.5 million dollars, and after the show, ended up oversubscribing and raised almost two million from investors.”

“Jacqueline told us that she and her co-founder Leah Decided not to take the money, because they didn't need it.”

“We also don't invest in DTC with our firm, but over the last couple of years, having had a bunch of misses like Pepper, I've now started writing those personal checks because actually there's a lot of really good companies in DTC, especially because there are …”

“Three of our best companies, Bobby, Pepper, and Pierre Ivo are all DTC, and they're all like real companies.”

“By the time we had completed our third year of college, which was May, 2019, we had done 1.75 crores of revenue till date all bootstrapped. Didn't take money from anyone else. Everything was profitable and revenue driven.”

“It took us about three months to get everyone in place. We were raising 2.2 crores. Just 300 K that time. And I think by the time we were almost nearing closure of the round, we were oversubscribed up to five crores.”

“In fact so Shadda Sharma from your story. I, we convinced your story to put in money. So Shadda was the first check.”

“In fact, Kunal introduced me to Dave from Lightspeed. And that's how Lightspeed finally came in, and I think your initial supporters are extremely important towards your next leg of journey.”

“We went from doing five, six lakhs of monthly revenue to, I think, 35, 40 lakhs of revenue when Lightspeed came in, right?”

“We went from, you know, doing about 500,000 dollars of annual run rate. To now we're close to touching about eight million dollars of run rate just in the last 14 months.”

“Top tile, which does four, fifty million ARR where they're basically peppers model, but for product engineering folks.”

“In fact, today itself, 20% of our business is already global. There were three 50,000 plus users using pepper marketplace and a software business across one 45 countries already.”

“See till date, we work with some 2500 plus brands so far on an active basis. We engage with five 50 to 600 customers at this point of time. Just to give you a sense in the last, we work with over 70 out of 85 unicorns in the country. We work with over a hundre…”

“We recently just Closed a late seven figure multimillion dollar deal with one of India's largest enterprises.”

“I think SAS is still early on about 15, 20% and growing on really fast in the overall side of scheme of things.”

“December, 2024.”

“Our team in pepper over the last six months has interviewed 8000 people. Right. And that's when we went from about 60 people to one 50 people in the last six months.”

“Now that alone has some 200,000 users today.”