Albert Santalo
Founder & CEO, Archie and 8base. On 1 show, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Albert Santalo is a serial entrepreneur who founded healthcare SaaS platforms Avisena and CareCloud. He later founded 8base, a low-code backend-as-a-service platform, and launched Archie, an agentic AI software platform.
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Everything Albert Santalo said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Santalo: Outsourcing engineering to agencies usually increases cash burn
“The outsourcing usually increases the burn.”
Santalo: A $25/month freemium SaaS model requires tens of millions in VC
“It's not a free trial at 25 bucks a month. You're just not going to get there without 10 tens of million dollars of venture money.”
Santalo: Leaving Bubble requires completely rebuilding applications from scratch
“Bubble's a great platform, but if you ever need to get off of it cause it's not scaling or whatever, you're gonna have to rebuild the whole thing.”
Santalo: Low-code market is still in its first or second inning
“I mean, if you look at the real competition is people building things from scratch. So, you know, I would say in some areas, yeah, there's been solutions that have come out and made a difference, but there's still a lot of greenfield opportunity here. I'd say …”
Santalo: Why he didn't negotiate valuation on 8base's Series A
“So look, before I tell you, I didn't negotiate valuation on the term sheet. So I negotiated other things, but the valuation was something I didn't touch.”
Santalo: Eightbase will transition services to provider ecosystem
“The idea is that over time, we will transition the services side to an ecosystem of providers.”
Santalo: MVPs should be light on features, not on architecture
“You build an MVP because it's a good thing to build an MVP, but an MVP that is light on features, not light on architecture.”
Santalo: 8base funds software development with services revenue over VC
“The idea is that the service revenue feeds the beast in lieu of venture capital while we build up the recurring platform revenue”
Santalo prefers to avoid Series A and later venture capital entanglements
“There are series A and after entanglements, which I would much rather avoid if I can.”
Santalo: 8base closed a $10.6M venture round in early 2022
“So we closed the 10.6 million dollar round earlier this year.”
Santalo: JavaScript has 14M developers, the largest single language community
“What we're trying to say is when you get into a base, you should already know what to do if you're a JavaScript developer, of which there are about fourteen million in the world. So it's the largest pool of developers, you know, around a language in the world.”
Santalo: Foundry Group offered the cleanest term sheet he has ever seen
“It was the cleanest, best term sheet I've ever seen. And I've seen, you know, I've seen at least a dozen in my day.”
Santalo: 8base's Series A term sheet had no ratchets or liquidation preferences
“There was no ratchet provisions. There was no liquidation preference. There was no, none of that.”
Santalo: 8base employs 30 people in Medellin, Colombia
“And then we now have 30 people in Medellin, Columbia that that's recent news as well.”
Santalo: Eightbase's Largest Customer Pays About $20k per Month
“First of all, it starts at free, and it goes, you know, the largest customer today is at about 20,000 dollars a month.”
Santalo: Eightbase PLG Accounts Average $100/mo Versus $1,250-$1,500 for B2B
“On the average customer on the product led growth side is probably somewhere around a hundred bucks a month. And on the B to B engagement side is probably closer to 12, 50, 1500 dollars a month.”
Santalo: Non-recurring services make up around 50% of Eightbase revenue
“Non-recurring revenue now is, is somewhere around 50% of our overall revenue.”
Santalo: Eightbase reached $4.8M total raised via priced round
“We, we've closed, we're, we did a price round and closed the overall closing was 4.8. That includes the conversion of everything before.”
Santalo: Eightbase maintains net dollar retention between 135% and 140%
“It's somewhere in the one 35 to one 40 range.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Albert's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Archie and 8base | 3 | 33 | 100% 4/4 | full record on Top Founders → |