Everything Kyle York said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Mattermark failed because it raised too much venture capital, says York
“The other reason why Metamark wasn't a successful company is because they fundraise too much.”
Kyle York: Dyn bootstrapped to $30M ARR before taking outside capital
“I mean, the best part of the Dine story is that we didn't raise a dollar of outside capital till we were a thirty million ARR.”
York: York IE charges zero management fees, taking only deal-by-deal carry
“So what we basically created is a master series vehicle, a high net worth individuals and family offices invest alongside our capital. There's no traditional management fee and there's no traditional fund economics. We get a five year commitment from our inves…”
York: Dyn scaled to $100M ARR before 2016 Oracle acquisition
“You know, claim to fame, helped build a company called Dine that we built to a hundred million ARR and sold to Oracle back in 2016.”
York: York IE managed services start at $3,000 per month
“And so those services start at three K a month. And they scale up from there.”
York IE database tracks 800K companies and scrapes 3M more
“I think the current database is about 800,000. But last I checked just this past Friday release, it's we're recording this on a Monday in mid-October, they we added the capability to scrape another three million companies through our data sets.”
York: SaaS syndicate remains AngelList's largest SaaS-specific syndicate
“So back in 2014, I co-founded the SAS syndicate on AngelList, which remains the largest SAS specific syndicate on the platform.”
York: York IE has deployed around $6.5M across 17 investments
“And so we've done, since we launched, actually we were just wired a deal today. We've done 17 investments. We've deployed right around six and a half million dollars. We average about a 500 K check size now because it's evergreen.”
Kyle York: York IE reached roughly $1.5M ARR in its first year
“Yeah, we have about 25 outside clients, you know, average tickets paying around seven grand a month for the services. So, you know, we've got ourselves upwards of, you know, with our, with some of our other project work and things we've done, we've got ourselv…”
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