Chainguard

includes Chainguard Images, Chainguard Enforce

8 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 11, 2024 by Dan Lorenc · said 23 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Oct 11, 2024
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Lorenc: Chainguard reached $1M ARR on Enforce before stalling
“About a million ARR on that product.”
Dan Lorenc Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 14:23 He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show
Oct 11, 2024 negative
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Lorenc: Customers rejected Chainguard Enforce because it made developer jobs harder
“Nobody wanted to roll this thing out because it made developers jobs harder. And it was like, that's kind of the entire point is making jobs harder. Of course, nobody wants to roll this thing out.”
Dan Lorenc Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 12:22 He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show
Oct 11, 2024
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Lorenc: Chainguard hired 10 to 15 people before finding PMF
“I think our team, yeah, we grew up let's say, 10 or 15, somewhere in that range. Mostly engineering product that kind of thing.”
Dan Lorenc Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 8:52 He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show
Oct 11, 2024 negative
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Lorenc: Operating in stealth mode unnecessarily limits customer intros and investor interest
“The one thing I never understood is like the whole stealth thing of like, we're just not going to tell anybody what we're working on. It's like, I don't know why you do that. You know, if you're out there, people hear about you, they talk about you get more in…”
Dan Lorenc Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 23:11 He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show
Oct 11, 2024
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Lorenc: Chainguard's average contract value is $225,000 to $250,000
“Probably two 25, two 50, somewhere around there.”
Dan Lorenc Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 30:00 He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show
Oct 11, 2024
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Lorenc: Chainguard has never used a pitch deck for fundraising
“We've never done a pitch deck even for the later rounds.”
Dan Lorenc Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 21:32 He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show
Oct 11, 2024
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Chainguard raised Series B in mid-2023 with two sales reps
“When we did the series B, it was like Q two, Q three. We had just built a real sales team. We had like two sales reps. We brought in a sales leader. We had a good quarter. And that's when we did the series B right after.”
Dan Lorenc Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 26:43 He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show
Oct 11, 2024
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Lorenc: Chainguard ended 2022 with just over $1M ARR
“I think that was the year where we ended, you know, a little over a million in ARR or something like that.”
Dan Lorenc Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 22:13 He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show
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