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Tom Gibby

Co-founder and CMO, The Bot Platform. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Tom Gibby co-founded The Bot Platform, a low-code software platform enabling enterprise HR and internal communications teams to build bots and automated workflows inside tools like Microsoft Teams. Before leading The Bot Platform until its acquisition by Flip in 2024, he co-founded the digital creative agency We Make Awesome Sh.

1shows
1appearances
12statements
1resolved
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Everything Tom Gibby said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Gibby: Customers do not churn once integrated into enterprise tech stacks
“The way we work now with customers is, you know, once we're a part of their tax, their tech stack, they don't leave, you know.”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 7:10 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
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Gibby: The Bot Platform opted for bootstrapping over venture capital in 2019
“We toyed with the idea of raising about a year, well, let's say about two and a half years ago, maybe. And we actually decided that it might be much more valuable for us to spend that time that we would invest into raising to just invest into growing the busin…”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 6:21 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
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Gibby: The Bot Platform would reject a $6M cash buyout offer
“Definitely wouldn't be interested in a six million acquisition.”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 9:33 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
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Gibby: The Bot Platform pricing ranges from $1,400 to over $20,000 monthly
“We have some customers that pay us 1400 dollars a month, all the way up to others that are paying upwards of 15, 20,000 a month.”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 2:11 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
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Gibby: The Bot Platform generates under $2M annually with $110k MRR
“So our annual revenue is just under two million, and our MRR is 110, 110 K, and if you notice there's a difference between that, that's because as well as charging for license, we also have service revenue on top of that.”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 4:42 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
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Gibby: The Bot Platform cash and receivables grew 81% year-over-year
“I mean, cash and receivables were up 81% year on year. Last month our invoicing is up 130% compared to last year.”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 6:02 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
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Gibby: The Bot Platform co-founders own roughly 75% of the company
“75%, maybe.”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 8:16 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
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Gibby: The Bot Platform raised past funding at a £4M valuation
“We did a very small fund a while ago, and I think that officially raised us at four million, that officially valued us at four million pounds.”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 9:37 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
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Gibby: Early investors own about 10% or less of The Bot Platform
“So I think that at the moment if I brought up the cap table would probably be maybe 10 percent-ish or maybe a bit less.”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 10:26 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
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Gibby: The Bot Platform's monthly churn is 2.9%
“Our monthly churn at the moment is 2.9%.”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 11:26 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
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Gibby: The Bot Platform achieves 118% net dollar retention
“It's a 118% is what our where is that?”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 11:43 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised
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Gibby: The Bot Platform was an original Facebook Messenger launch partner
“We were actually an original messenger launch partner. We launched one of the first bots on Facebook messenger. It was actually the first bot for the music industry for one of the biggest DJs in the world.”
Tom Gibby Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 2:35 Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

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