Chris Ellis

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Feb 17, 2025
Insight
Ellis: Choosing the right co-founder is the top determinant of PMF
“The single most important determining factor to getting to product market fit is actually who you choose as your co-founder.”
Chris Ellis Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 2:43 This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, ... · PMF Show
Feb 17, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Ellis: Tatch generates mid-hundreds in annual ARPU per employee
“We charge per employee per month, and then there's a component around actually getting commissions from the insurance companies when you do enrollments for them, and so it adds up to kind of a nice you know, average revenue per, per user, kind of the mid-hundr…”
Chris Ellis Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 38:57 This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, ... · PMF Show
Feb 17, 2025 positive
Insight
Ellis: Aggressive customer complaints about bugs indicate real product demand
“When I, one thing I learned is if your customers care enough to complain and get you on a call and rake you over the coals, it means you're onto something, right? Because if they didn't care, then they would just leave, you know?”
Chris Ellis Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 34:26 This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, ... · PMF Show
Feb 17, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ellis: Tatch serves about 1,000 companies and tens of thousands of employees
“We've got, you know, around about a thousand or so, you know, companies give it, give or take in terms of the scale as there's employees at those companies, you know, we're in the tens of thousands.”
Chris Ellis Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 45:59 This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, ... · PMF Show
Feb 17, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Ellis: Tatch raised a $5M to $6M seed round in early 2021
“It was around Five or six million or so, and it was kind of the boom times of early 2021.”
Chris Ellis Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 16:41 This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, ... · PMF Show
Feb 17, 2025
Insight
Ellis: Founders should not optimize for financial outcomes over big tech
“I don't think that if you want to start a company, you should be optimizing for financial outcome, actually, because if you run all the numbers and you break it down, you're much more likely to be just on a, you know, excluding your own personal desire. You're…”
Chris Ellis Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 11:48 This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, ... · PMF Show
Feb 17, 2025
Insight
Ellis: Startups can get 80% of demand signal from 20% of development work
“The learning out of here is you can almost always get 80% of the signal from 20% of the work. Like, if you think about the eighty-twenty principle, we put in 20% of the work building a full product and got 80% of the signal. And if you think about it, you can …”
Chris Ellis Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 29:24 This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, ... · PMF Show
Feb 17, 2025
Opinion
Ellis: A startup demands more time invested than raising a child
“Doing a startup is A lot more work, or at least a lot more time invested than you know, raising a kid.”
Chris Ellis Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 3:57 This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, ... · PMF Show
Feb 17, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Ellis: Tatch's original 2023 HSA product flopped completely upon launch
“And you know, 22, we built the HSA and we actually launched it in 23. It was a total flop. Like nobody wanted it.”
Chris Ellis Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 31:55 This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, ... · PMF Show
Feb 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ellis: Tatch reached $500K run rate and 100 companies in one month
“And if we weren't ready at that time, I mean, we go up with like zero customers begging our first users. So having like a hundred companies and, you know, half a million run rate in like a month from zero.”
Chris Ellis Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 31:27 This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, ... · PMF Show
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