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Bhattacharya: Top employees are self-managing and do not need good managers
“Great people are self-managing mostly, right? They don't need good managers. They're just going to be amazing no matter what.”
Bhattacharya: Jeeva.ai makes job offers after a 15-minute conversation
“We move fast on people. Like sometimes we just make them an offer. I would talk to Someone for 15 minutes, and I know whether I want to work with them or not, and that's it. I don't waste their time. I'm like, hey, here's what we can do. Here's an offer. You'l…”
Bhattacharya: Jeeva.ai scaled from zero to $3M ARR in six months
“We started this product or actually selling this product only six months ago, but we're already at zero to three million in almost six months.”
Bhattacharya: Alt Capital backed Jeeva.ai at $250K to $300K ARR
“Jack Altman was the CEO of Lattice and they have a new fund called Alt Capital. And he, I don't know how we got connected to him, but we were only at a, maybe two 50,000 or 300,000 dollars of ARR within the first few weeks. And we did a demo for him. He loved …”
Bhattacharya: Jeeva.ai shifting budget from 90% engineering to 50/50 sales
“A lot of our budgets, let's say for this year has been 90% product and engineering, 10% sales and marketing, but it's going to go more towards 50 50 moving into 2025.”
Bhattacharya: Jeeva.ai would reject a $100M acquisition offer from Salesforce
“We want to build a massive company. We're not happy with having a small outcome. Let's say if Salesforce comes in and buys us at A hundred million dollars. A lot of people would make a lot of money, but maybe we wouldn't be the happiest. We would love the oppo…”
Bhattacharya: Was one of the first programmers to write code for AutoGPT
“There was a project called AutoGPT, which basically was a GitHub repository. Some couple of developers got together, then almost 400 developers contributed to it. But the goal was like, can you create AI to chain tasks, do a lot of workflows together? So take …”
Bhattacharya: Jeeva.ai targets $12M to $15M in ARR next year
“We're trying to hit 12 or even fifteen million next year. So I don't know, by the time podcast comes out, hopefully we're already past five million in ARR and growing very fast.”
Bhattacharya: Jeeva.ai had only two to three weeks of runway left
“So at one point, we only had about two to three weeks of runway left.”
Bhattacharya: Jeeva.ai plans to reach $10M ARR before raising Series B
“Moving forward, the next big milestone for us would be like technically like a series B round. That's what we want to go for. So we're actually going to keep growing, maybe hit ten million in annual revenue. That's one of our benchmarks and then probably go ou…”
Bhattacharya: Jeeva.ai reached $3M ARR with zero marketing spend
“So far we've had zero ad dollars. We've not done any marketing. It's been very like word of mouth growth for us, but we want to change that.”
Bhattacharya: Founders Overestimate Downside Risk and Take Too Few Risks
“A lot of people over index risk versus reward or the loss of risk. Basically, if you make a wrong riskier bet and you lose something, usually it's not that bad. So people are always hesitant to make risks. They always under, they always take fewer risks than w…”