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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Open-source AI demand spiked on hype before reverting to frontier labs
“Like all the open source models, I think what happened was they got like very hyped and people were very interested in using them. But I think like over time, like there was a spike in usage for these models. And then it goes back to open AI, Anthropic and Goo…”
Yasser Elsaid May 2, 2026 ▶ 16:45 ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chatbase is actively replacing Zendesk as customers migrate to AI-native solutions
“Yeah, I think then, yeah, we are replacing Zendesk. So a lot of people are moving off of Zendesk to using it.”
Yasser Elsaid May 2, 2026 ▶ 48:36 ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Outcome-driven engineers will thrive; craft-focused coders will struggle in the AI era
“The people that like coding because of what, how powerful it is, those people will thrive in, in this era. And I think people who like coding for the craft of coding will Probably have a bad time because that's not gonna be like the biggest thing in coding any…”
Yasser Elsaid May 2, 2026 ▶ 54:52 ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
Assertion Contradicted
No commercial products augmented GPT models with custom data pre-ChatGPT
“Like I saw some people doing demos, but like in like a CLI or something like that, but there was no product doing like this model, but with additional data on top of it.”
Yasser Elsaid May 2, 2026 ▶ 2:59 ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chatbase scaled from zero to $1 million ARR in 117 days
“I think doing that helped a lot into, Getting me from like zero, basically to one million AR in a 117 days.”
Yasser Elsaid May 2, 2026 ▶ 7:33 ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
Assertion Open · timeframe May 2027
The United Nations uses Chatbase on Facebook Messenger for regional crisis support
“Like, the UN is using us right now on their Facebook messenger. So when people reach out to them, specifically for, like, specific regions, it gets drafted to Chatbase, and Chatbase helps them.”
Yasser Elsaid May 2, 2026 ▶ 23:20 ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Single LinkedIn posts from large AI pages drove $3,000 MRR spikes
“Basically like I would have like this maybe big AI page post about chat base, and I would see Stripe like maybe a few hours later go up by like 3000 MRR from just that one post.”
Yasser Elsaid May 2, 2026 ▶ 8:36 ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chatbase currently serves 10,000 active enterprise and mid-market customers
“We have 10,000 active customers.”
Yasser Elsaid May 2, 2026 ▶ 21:01 ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Early Chatbase users primarily wanted external customer-facing AI bots
“Most of the people that were interested were mainly interested in the external use case because they were used to like the, you know, like the drag and drop canvas AI chatbot, like a flow builder, which was very limited.”
Yasser Elsaid May 2, 2026 ▶ 9:30 ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
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