Everything Gregory Galant said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Galant: Muck Rack reached $50M ARR before raising $180M in 2022
“I'm going to tell you about how we scaled our way up, ah, to over fifty million in ARR, which is about our size when we did our hundred and eighty million dollar round in 2022.”
Shorty Awards built the first Twitter social voting system in 2008
“So we built the first ever system. Now that's commonplace, you know, you want to vote, share it on social media. No one had done that before, so when we launched it, within 24 hours it became the top trending term on Twitter”
Bootstrapped SaaS bottlenecks flip from cash to hiring at $10M ARR
“Once we approached 10, it flipped, where all of a sudden we had plenty of money, and the hard part, the harder part became finding the right people to hire, figuring out what position to bring in next, really educating ourselves.”
Muck Rack launched a free academy to target future software buyers
“We even launched this free academy to teach people how to, ah, how to do PR very early in their careers. It's a free certification. Anyone can take it, ah, academy.muckrack.com. And we know, like, we're not going to see ROI on that for three or four years, bec…”
Muck Rack quadrupled in size after abandoning its New York office
“So we ditched the office, went fully remote, ah, and since then we've, you know, pretty much quadrupled in size, so it's really, really worked for us.”
Galant built the first version of Muck Rack for eight dollars
“We had an eight dollar branding budget, which is what it cost to buy a domain name on GoDaddy at the time, and it turned out Muckrack.com was free. So we built the first version of Muckrack in two weeks.”
Galant: Over 10,000 journalists requested Muck Rack profiles in year one
“It took off virally with journalists, so we had over 10,000 journalists requests to get added in that first year.”
Muck Rack scaled on $200K angel capital and Shorty Awards profits
“It was under 200 K of Angel, was the only primary capital we ever took, and we used some of the profits from the shorties, which was still part of the same company at the time that we reinvested in Muckrack.”
Muck Rack co-founders retained majority ownership after institutional growth round
“We wanted to get to a scale Where we could do a round that'd be really meaningful and still stay in control so my co-founder and I are still a majority owner, still in control of the company.”
Muck Rack launched generative AI agent PressPal weeks after ChatGPT released
“Just a couple weeks after ChatGPT came out, we launched PressPal AI, a press release generative AI agent that also suggests journalists to pitch to”